Shine the spotlight on your volunteers

Celebrate, reward and recognise your fantastic volunteers by nominating them in the Intrepid Travel National Volunteer Awards.  One lucky volunteer will be off an adventure of a lifetime with Intrepid Travel.
Last year Good Magazine launched a National Volunteer Award with lead partner Intrepid Travel and in 2010 we’re stoked to be involved.
So what’s it all [...]

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Understanding Digital Direct Marketing & Fundraising

A fantastic presentation from Rachel Beer of  London based agency Beautiful World.
Understanding Digital Direct Marketing and Fundraising
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There a number of parallels here with our findings at Givealittle. Particularly in relation to the traffic sources to causes and barriers to donating on charity websites.  Time to draft a future post to [...]

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Branding your body for charity

Pushing oneself to personal limits in the name of charity is pretty common (and very cool) these days.
Fair maidens tackle 100km over 36 hours for Oxfam, there’s shaving hair or growing body hair and stepping into the boxing ring to support youth to list just a few.
However, there is a new challenge in town….  [...]

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Otis Frizzell Ltd Edition Prints now available

Image by Givealittle via Flickr

They’ve arrived! We’re delighted with our limited edition prints of “God Bless Samoa”, in fact, it will be hard to part with them. After an action-packed painting week at Te Papa last month for Otis Frizzell, we’ve been working with our friends at Image Lab in Wellington to get prints produced. [...]

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The completed art work

What a whirlwind the last week was for Otis Frizzell. After a delivery malfunction Otis completed the 8 x 2m work at Te Papa in a speedy four days. In fact he finished just in time to have a well earned beer before catching a flight back to Auckland.
It is amazing what [...]

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Otis Frizzell to complete artwork for Samoa

As often happens with the Givealittle team, ideas come late at night and result and a flurry of phone calls that always start with ‘Hey, I’ve got an idea, what do you think about ….’. A couple of nights ago I received one of these calls from Nathalie.
As previously mentioned the comments donors are [...]

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Calling Online Volunteers: Help Samoa Tsunami Relief Effort

Breaking news reports out of Samoa confirms many deaths and widespread devastation resulting from a tsunami after a massive 8.3 magnitude earthquake. Wondering what you can do to help? Be an online relief volunteer for the New Zealand Red Cross.
As an online volunteer you can assist by:

Put the NZ Red Cross Tsunami Relief cause widget [...]

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Always a work in progress…

Six months ago we released version 1 of Givealittle.co.nz. December 2008 wasn’t so long ago but it feels like decades for the team here in the office. We look back on that release with fond memories and almost a childlike nostalgia for what we sent out into the world. Back then, the world was black [...]

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Happy as Larry

I’ve been following Happy as Larry Cat’s antics for a couple of months now. After hearing about this great online word of mouth initiative I tracked down Larry Cat’s website to learn more.
I am now a happy recipient of Larry Cat’s monthly newsletter offering all types of great giveaways.  No catch, no ties, no tricks [...]

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A tribute to fundraisers

We have some really cool fundraising pages on the go at Givealittle so it seems a good idea to share these.  Maybe you will get all inspired to do something great for a cause you are passionate about or give these guys some support.
Fundraising pages can be set up by anyone to support an organisation [...]

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