Email Security for Charities: Protect Donor Trust
Donor trust is a charity's most valuable asset, and email impersonation puts it at risk. Here is how to protect your domain.
Charities run on trust, and that trust is exactly what email fraudsters exploit. A spoofed appeal or a fake message to a major donor can divert funds and damage a reputation built over years.
What this short video covers
- Why charities are targeted despite tight budgets
- How donor-facing email gets impersonated using your own domain
- What email authentication does to protect supporters
- Why funders and the Charity Commission expect basic cyber hygiene
- How monitoring protects donor trust without adding workload
Supporters give because they trust your charity, so a message that appears to come from you carries real weight. Criminals forge your domain to send fake appeals or redirect donations, and without protection those emails reach inboxes looking authentic. The damage is both financial and reputational.
Email authentication, anchored by DMARC, stops spoofed mail being delivered in your name. It does not require a large IT team, but it does require setting the policy to enforce and monitoring it so nothing slips. For a charity, that is a small, low cost step that protects the trust your work depends on.
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Founder of SealedMail and a UK email-security specialist in DMARC, SPF, DKIM and email authentication for regulated sectors. He personally reads the DMARC and TLS reports behind every SealedMail account and writes the company's plain-English guides. More from Shaun Cooke →
