Fundraising for charities

Effective fundraising provides charities and voluntary organisations with a vital source of funds to support an organisation's mission.  Competition for funds is getting tougher and the need for innovation is greater than ever. 

CTT offers a range of products and services designed to enhance charities' fundraising capabilities, including:

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• Email marketing for charities - CTT Mail: A simple and affordable, yet powerful charity email marketing tool used to send email newsletters, appeals, campaigns, updates and notifications.
  
  
• Free websites for charities - charitywebsites.net: Create a free charity website in minutes, easy and simple. Using a friendly charity content management system with an editor similar to Word and PowerPoint, you can create professional web pages and add content so donors and beneficiaries can find you easily and read all about your organisation. Select your name, your template and start building your charity website, that simple.

Online And Telephone Fundraising

Online fundraising is now an integral part of the fundraising mix. Charities wanting to maximise their income need to be able to offer the full range of payment options. CTT has developed a range of products to help charities do this:

• CP Terminal: A  tier 1 PCI-DSS compliant credit and debit card processing system for mail order; telephone order; internet  and retail transactions. CP Terminal is a multi-currency, multi-user system, which can be used for single and recurring transactions.
  
  
• On-line Direct Debits: An online direct debits system for regular giving. This is an essential tool for charities seeking regular gifts either online or via telephone fundraising campaigns.

Fundraising Using Direct Marketing

The processing of payments is vital to the success of any traditional direct marketing campaign. CTT offers two direct debit processing services for charities who are new to Direct Debits:

• DD Facilities Management Services: CTT offers a range of services for charities that wish to outsource the processing of their direct debits and do not wish to apply for their own OIN (Originator Identification Number).
  
  
• DD Bureau Services: CTT offers a range of services for charities who wish to outsource the processing of their direct debits but apply for and process them  using their own OIN.

Other CTT Products And Services That Help Fundraisers

• Webpage, Email & Online Advert Design Services: CTT designs:
  
  
  • One-off templates or pages for appeals, campaigns, surveys,  competitions and events.
  • Newsletter and email advert templates as well as individual emails.
  • Banner buttons and skyscraper adverts for online marketing campaigns.
    
    
• CTXchange: CTT, in partnership with TechSoup™, has launched the first donated technology products programme  for charities and non-profit organisations in the UK. This programme distributes products from a number of leading technology donors such as Microsoft, Cisco and Symantec and include:
  
  
  • Publishing software,
  • Productivity software such as Microsoft Office,
  • Operating system software,
  • Security software,
  • Server software,
  • Hardware products.