Making Donations

Donations of money, materials, expertise and manpower from private individuals and organisations have always been a key element of how charities operate. In the modern western world, many companies or wealthy individuals have a set amount of revenue allocated to various charitable organisations each year, allowing those charities to enjoy the benefits of long term financial security, vastly increasing their effectiveness through being able to plan for the long term. This means that some charities are almost run as subsidiaries of larger private companies, and removes somewhat their requirement to apply for and collect donations.

However, there are still a large amount of charitable organisations that rely on raising all of their funding through donations. This is because they either have no permanent funding stream, or they are simply tasked with the raising of funds for a one off event or benefit each year. Some charities are set up purely to raise money for a single issue, such as money for a defence lawyer or to pay for an operation, and so in these cases their whole raison d’être would be the actual raising of funds through donations rather than the providing of a particular service.

Fortunately, the communication age has been kind to charities by the ease at which they can now get their pitch across to the general public. Never has it been easier for them to plaster high impact images and statistics of the people, animals or issues they support across the large range of media devices people use on a daily basis. The internet and mobile phone network has also made it incredibly easy for people to donate a few quid here and there without leaving their seat or even having any spare change on them.

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