Welcome to Issue 57 of the Resource Alliance's e-newsletter 'Global Connections'. We hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Please forward it to anyone you feel would like to read it. You and your colleagues can subscribe for free - simply click here to do so.
	First America, then the world A non-profit organisation outside the US with an interest in taking its fundraising global may want to look at using the US market as a first step. Why? Griet Dehandschutter explains how welcoming America's philanthropic market can be         Testing the water for F2F  Face-to-face fundraising has been with us for more than a decade, but we're still not testing our campaigns well enough. Owen Watkins suggests how testing can help us understand our donor behaviour     News from the Resource Alliance Fundraising in Lithuania: first discussions New Resource Alliance course for Vietnam Read about one of the world most successful capital campaigns on SOFII News from around the world  111 million donors online in US for holiday season US watchdog loosens fundraising standards 3rd Czech Fundraising Festival announced Civicus Global Assembly dates for 2010	More of the world's finest fundraising campaigns listed on SOFII Read more at SOFII    Upcoming Activities 8-10 February 2010 Certificate course in resource mobilisation and communication Hyderabad, India