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Lower-income Britons donate a higher proportion of their income than higher earners, says Third Sector Online, citing research by two major U.K. nonprofit associations.

People earning less than $51,000 give more than 1 percent of their income to charity, compared to 0.8 percent for those who make $83,000 or more, according to the U.K. Giving 2011 report by the Charities Aid Foundation and the National Council for Voluntary Organizations.

Fisher House Foundation, which constructs comfortable homes to provide free, temporary housing to the families of service members receiving medical care at VA and military hospitals around the world, announced that it will receive continued media support from long-standing partner Clear Channel Radio this Veterans Day. 

Clear Channel will launch the second annual Operation Fisher House, a powerful week-long national media campaign designed to raise awareness and funding for Fisher House and the military members they serve.

Merkle, the nation’s largest privately held agency, has appointed Angie Moore senior vice president, CRM officer for its nonprofit division. This move accentuates Merkle’s emphasis on bringing the full array of customer relationship marketing (CRM) services to the nonprofit marketplace.

In her new role, Moore will lead strategic partnerships with major nonprofit organizations to drive Merkle’s CRM and integrated marketing strategies into this market. Previously, Moore was general manager of Merkle’s nonprofit practice.

America's charities, which receive a significant portion of their annual contributions during the holiday giving season, will be heartened to know that donors who gave last year-end plan to give again this year-end. The recent survey about year-end giving by Charity Navigator, the nation's largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities, also found that the majority of donors expect to give at the same level as they did last year.

For the first time, business and nonprofit executives trying to harness Facebook’s enormous audience to power cause marketing campaigns have an in-depth guide to what’s working and what’s not.

MyRegistry.com, the universal gift registry website, announces the four finalists of its first-ever Baby Registry Giveback; an initiative to help benefit families who are managing unforeseen difficulties that have impacted their ability to purchase baby necessities.

KELL Partners, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) consulting specialists for nonprofits, announced its engagement with Plan International USA to deploy the organization's Convio Luminate constituent engagement solution. The newest addition to KELL's growing client roster capped off a record quarter in revenue as the company continues to drive strong growth while serving the cloud-based technology needs of organizations across the nonprofit sector.

Ashton Kutcher, Kanye West and other big-name celebrities don’t do as much good for charity on Twitter, Facebook or other social networks as less-famous people, a new study finds. Actors, comics, singers and bloggers with deep personal ties to causes and potential donors raise far more money for charities.

The report, released this week by the consulting firm Zoetica Media and PayPal, the online donations portal, studied six major online fundraising campaigns.

While many Americans give generously to help people, many others make donations of a different sort: building museums to house their art collections; underwriting new wings in hospitals or halls named for them at their alma maters; using their money and influence to sway public policy and influence political campaigns; or seeking to solve problems in distant lands rather than in their own backyards.

While charitable giving rose slightly over all in 2010, gifts to organizations that address basic human needs fell 6.6 percent, according to Giving USA.

Online fundraising software provider DoJiggy announces the release of a new Fundraising Library for walk-a-thon and other "a-thon" event participants collecting pledges and donations for a cause. The fundraising library was created as a resource to assist organizations and individuals in their fundraising efforts.

DoJiggy’s Fundraising Library includes many helpful fundraising guidelines and resources for team leaders and participants to use throughout their fundraising campaigns.