Posted November 10th, 2009 by martina
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. [...]
Tags: givealittle, image lab, Limited Edition, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, new zealand red cross samoa tsunami relief fund, nz fine prints, otis frizzell, samoa, trade me, tsunami
Posted October 21st, 2009 by lee
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 [...]
Tags: givealittle, museum hotel, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, new zealand red cross samoa tsunami relief fund, otis frizzell, resene, samoa, te papa, tsunami
Posted September 30th, 2009 by nathalie
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 [...]
Tags: nz red cross, pacific tsunami, samoa, tsunami
Posted September 21st, 2009 by lee
News Release issued today.
The Government has passed tax legislation including the introduction of a New Zealand payroll giving scheme, enabling employees to make contributions to charities direct from their pay while immediately receiving a tax credit via PAYE.
Given recent scrutiny on charitable fundraising methods and costs to attract public donations, the advent of payroll giving [...]
Posted September 17th, 2009 by nathalie
as in “Hi, We are XYZ – we are a non-profit organisation…”
The term ‘non-profit’ is only useful to declare upfront that you do not pursue profit ahead of investment in more important values or change. However it is those values and your vision of change that makes you unique – so why not lead with [...]
Tags: charity, dan pollotta, non-profit, permission marketing, Seth Godin, social media, uncharitable
Posted September 11th, 2009 by lee
Spring has arrived and September is already a cracking month at Givealittle HQ with lots of great stuff happening on and off the site. The team is amped and racing forward with new and exciting plans and version 2 is proving a great hit with loads of interesting new cause pages being created.
I don’t [...]
Tags: Fundraising, happy as larry, marketing now, siobhan bulfin, starlight childrens foundation, thank you water, top cat model
Posted August 26th, 2009 by lee
When the team sat down to battle out each of our “must-have” items for version 2, there were a few features that did not require what we call, Givealittle Fight Club. One of these improvements was the ability for every page at Givealittle to have an image and video gallery.
Everyday we are sent or stumble [...]
Tags: cause video, Children on the Edge, shelly mansfield
Posted August 25th, 2009 by nathalie
Version 2 is live! And not a moment too soon. It has been a crazy last couple of weeks getting this ready but we hope the wait has been worth it.
This release is jam-packed with new feature goodness including:
Spunkier design (especially on My Givealittle and browse pages)
Lightening fast registration and page set-up for all members
“Cause” [...]
Posted July 27th, 2009 by nathalie
Today the media presented a picture that fuels Givealittle’s mission: to drive down the cost of money for charity, and to provide donors with simple and transparent tools to assist engagement with charitable causes.
This was not new information. It was not even classified or commercially sensitive. The media has used information that has been available [...]
Tags: Charities Commission, Close Up, Epilepsy Foundation, Epilepsy New Zealand, fundraising cost, givealittle, Mark Sainsbury, nathalie hofsteede, telemarketing
Posted July 21st, 2009 by lee
I love it when the latest Springwise email newsletter hits my inbox. Weekly I ooh and ahh over clever business ideas spotted by Springwise’s global network of 8,000 people.
Last week the issue featured LavishGiving.com. More oohing and ahhing over the wonderful range of products but that is not the point of this blog.
LavishGiving.com not only [...]
Tags: business giving, givealittle, Jane Pennells, lavish giving, lavishgiving, lavishgiving.com, networkforgood
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