We've got some rather exciting news... We've been approached by Microsoft to take part in an interesting Drupal project. We're being sponsored to create a suite of modules that will allow for better integration and showcasing of Microsoft technologies whilst at the same time benefiting small NGOs.

HomeMade Digital are very proud to be working with Artez Interactive, and Rapidata Services to present – Ten - a fast-paced, high level afternoon briefing at the gorgeous Tate Modern on the 9th March, to challenge and inspire the third sector with byte-sized insight guaranteed to drive effective, real and measurable results in 2010. 



HomeMade has been lucky enough to recently work with the Canadian arm of the brilliant Kids Help Phone organisation. Together we have created a set of corporate partner fundraising pages for 2010’s Walk for Kids Help Phone across Canada. Over 20,000 people Walked last year raising over $3 million to ensure Kids Help Phone can continue to offer 24-hour support to young people.

Yesterday, 14th October 2009, HomeMade Digital launched the new UNHCR website for their 'Gimme Shelter' campaign. We have worked closely with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Think Consulting Solutions to produce the new site and we are very proud to be part of this new campaign.

Today whilst tucking into my lunch I was browsing the daily e-newsletter from the lovely guys at Mashable and came across this article: Facebook’s PayPal Rival? Gift Marketplace On the Way. It looks at Facebook’s plans to create a virtual currency and turn it into a payment platform that would spread across the web and realize the original goal of PayPal: to become the web’s universal currency.

Yesterday (22/07/2009), HomeMade Digital launched the newly rebranded InspirAction site in Spain. InspirAction is the new sister charity of Christian Aid, launched in April 2009, to bring the charity’s focus on climate change, tax and development funding in the world's poorest countries, to a new audience of Spanish supporters.

June 23rd saw the launch of A Giant Cause, the National Trust’s new fundraising campaign to help fund the construction of new visitor facilities at the the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland. The new facilities will improve the experience of visiting the Giant’s Causeway, provide new opportunities for people to learn about the heritage of the area and participate in the Trust’s conservation work at this spectacular World Heritage Site.

Congratulations to everyone involved in the Britglyph project for winning a Webby Award for Experimentation and Innovation. HomeMade Digital worked on the project with the teams at Moblog and Shozu to build 'Britglyph' .

Last Friday Christian Aid UK launched the initial version of their new Christian Aid Week website at www.caweek.org. Later this week we’re looking forward to the next phase coming online. HomeMade is proud to have been able to support Christian Aid’s Digital Marketing team by building the site with design created in-house by Christian Aid.

I was reading Third Sector yesterday and came across an article arguing that so far organisations and coalition efforts like MAKE POVERTY HISTORY or GCAaP have failed to create real impact with their campaigns for a fairer global economy, according to the chief executive of BOND, the umbrella body for the UK's international development charities.