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We're not perfect, but at Gift we stick to our promises and tell you the whole truth and nothing but about street fundraising and prospecting.

We like to think our no nonsense approach is the reason we work with so many remarkable causes, though it might be because we buy extravagant rounds of drinks at the IOF conference - Flirtini anyone?

Either way our magic formula remains unchanged: happy fundraisers equal happy donors, and that means happy clients.

www.gift-fundraising.com/

The Phone Room is a specialist voice fundraising agency, providing outbound services - donor acquisition and donor development and inbound appeals.

Our services are tailored to your organisational needs and put your supporters at the heart of the conversation. Our experienced account management and technical teams provide bespoke set-up including data analysis, scripting and reporting to deliver the best results and campaign insight.

We have the technology and team of highly skilled callers to ensure that we maximise your return on your investment.

Call 01865 713600 to speak to a member of our client services team to find out more.

www.phoneroom.co.uk

Dataforce continues to support a growing number of UK and International charities drive fundraising growth and cost reduction. Our unrivalled expertise in data analytics, campaign planning and multi-channel operational delivery provides the flexibility and scale to meet your specific needs.

We are shaking up traditional 'thanking and banking' and membership services to embrace new channels, technologies and reduce costs. The launch of our hybrid on / offshore datacapture and payment processing service will reduce your costs by over 20% whilst maintaining the highest levels of quality and security.

Physical and data security are at the heart of our business, being the first in the marketplace to achieve full Level 1 PCI DSS compliance. Every year we successfully receive and process over £40m of charity fundraising and membership subscriptions.

To find out how we can support your future growth, please contact us on 01908 8289300 or visit us at www.dataforce.co.uk

The Fundraising Initiatives Group is a leading global provider of Face-to-Face donor recruitment and related services with offices worldwide. Their comprehensive range of donor acquisition services includes door-to-door, private site, lottery canvassing and events.

Fundraising Initiatives also offers a range of fulfillment services including welcome and verification calls, reactivation, upgrade, direct debit collections and ongoing supporter communication. With a wealth of knowledge and experience in recruiting long term committed givers; they have an unrivalled flexibility that allows the creation of campaigns that meet the charity's needs.

www.fundraising-initiatives.org/en

At Relationship Marketing we firmly believe that the passion of the relationship should be at the heart of all that you do when communicating with your supporters, not only at the beginning of the relationship but through the lifetime of a donor's support to your cause.

Relationship Marketing is delighted to support the Institute of Fundraising convention thus enabling us to help fulfil our commitment and belief in the development of the sector and the people who work across its varied causes.

Through education and training we can inspire our colleagues to ensure that they develop and maintain strong and powerful relationships with their donors to ensure that their organisations maximise the investment in acquisition. This is what Relationship Marketing calls Stewardship!!

www.relationshipmarketing.org.uk

Blackbaud is the leading global provider of software and related services designed specifically for not-for-profits. For over 25 years, Blackbaud has achieved success by providing innovative technology solutions that help not-for-profits meet their most critical challenges.

Today, more than 22,000 organisations worldwide rely on Blackbaud to help them:

- Enhance their customer's experience through cross team collaboration.
- Support their fundraising strategies by enabling data-driven decision making.
- Develop content specific online communications through the integration with offline information.
- Combine data and information from across the organisation into a single source.

For more information contact us at solutions@blackbaud.co.uk, call us on 0845 658 8590 or visit our web site www.blackbaud.co.uk

At THINK we support not for profit organisations of all shapes and sizes to bring their visions to life.

We have an unparalleled senior team of frontline, not for profit experts who are committed to helping you get where you want to go.  We bring fresh, original thinking to everything we do, never off-the-shelf solutions and we always hand pick the team with relevant experience of the problem you're facing  - whether it's a strategic rethink for an international organisation or a fundraising challenge for a local charity - and we help you solve it.

If you'd find it useful to have some impartial, practical and friendly advice from senior professionals who've been there, please give Tony Elischer a call on 01280 824297 or visit www.thinkcs.org

We are Voice. Our team of specialists is here to serve our clients in the not-for-profit sector with expertise in social media marketing, on-line PR and reputation management, fundraising and brand management. We help organisations to discover the practical value of social media.

We provide guidance in joining the discussion in social media. Demystifying its nature we help our clients to achieve their goals by establishing personal relationships with their consumers and supporters. We help them to identify realistic, tangible solutions. We educate our clients on listening, joining discussions and gradually start to lead the discussions around their services and brands in general. We make social media a practical reality for our clients.

www.nfpvoice.com

The Direct Marketing Session Tracks are sponsored by TW CAT, an ethical fundraising agency working in the not-for-profit sector.

Our approach to fundraising has broken records for many of our clients. We work to a simple premise, driven by understanding what it is that makes people support charitable causes. By using data and research to gain insight into the audience we are able to produce creative fundraising that hits home every time - and that is reflected in the results we achieve. If you would like to find out more please call Laura on 01525 861680 or drop her a line at laura@twcat.co.uk

Third Sector is the leading magazine and website for the UK non-profit world.

It is independent, first with the news, and covers all aspects of the business of being a charity.

That includes fundraising, governance, finance, communications, management, policy and politics.

Its readers are chief executives and senior managers in charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.

Thirdsector.co.uk publishes breaking news every day, and more than 25,000 people subscribe to our daily email bulletin.

The site also has lively blogs and forums, an extensive 'good practice' section, useful links and a comprehensive archive.

The magazine, published every Tuesday, contains exclusive stories, interviews, and analysis of the news.

It also features expert commentators, lively letters and features pages, and the unique At Work section, which helps people develop their skills and boost their careers.

Third Sector and its jobsite ThirdSectorjobs.co.uk provide organisations with the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way to target charity professionals throughout the UK. While passive and active jobseekers have a wide range of new job opportunities to choose from.

Fundraising UK Ltd is the publisher of UK Fundraising, the online resource and community for professional charity fundraisers. Since 1994 the site has offered news, discussion, jobs, suppliers, books, courses and other resources to help fundraisers improve their effectiveness.

www.fundraising.co.uk

Vismail is a unique patented software application that enables the user to embed graphics and rich media content within an email, thus eliminating graphic stripping. People also have an option to view a video where your message can be enhanced further.

Vismail forms the basis of a highly cost effective email communication platform; in addition, the core technology has been developed to enhance interactivity and tracking to extract valuable market intelligence from its users. All campaign data is fully and instantly trackable by email address.

Vismail is also delighted to announce the launch of video personalisation from Vismail. Please visit our website or contact us for more information.

www.vismail.com

Alliance is the leading magazine for philanthropy and social investment worldwide. It provides news and analysis of what's happening in these sectors across the world and acts as a forum for exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners.

As well as news and conference reports, letters, articles, book reviews and opinion columns, each issue has a special in-depth feature on some key aspect of philanthropy and social investment, with contributors from around the world and expert guest editors.

Go to www.alliancemagazine.org for more information or follow us across the web on Facebook or Twitter (@Alliancemag)