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Just published: How has UK philanthropy changed over the past decade?
Richer Lives: why rich people give is an in-depth study of what drives rich people to give to charity, based on new research by Theresa Lloyd and Beth Breeze with over 80 wealthy UK donors, …
Impact vs overhead
Talk to almost any donor about what’s important when they give, and the answer will be impact, change and positive outcomes. Donors want to know that they’re making a difference – that with their chosen …
Measuring non-profit impact: Five questions determine if you can know a charity’s effectiveness
Peter Singer’s 2013 TED talk about effective altruism argues for the moral necessity of supporting effective charities. Since most of us would prefer to support charities we know, working on issues we care about, rather than …
Listening for greater impact: the Constituent Voice
At the 2013 CECP corporate philanthropy conference in New York, held 3-5 June, the hook was set early in the session when the room was polled. ‘How many of your companies take customer feedback very …
Charity Navigator introduces expanded methodology that examines results reporting
With more than 1.8 million NGOs, $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in annual revenues and one in ten of all US workers, America’s non-profit sector has become the largest in the history of the world. …
Impact measurement – what charities and donors need to do
When we interview people wanting to give skills to charities, they often mention a particular cause that has touched their lives in some way: the entrepreneur whose sister died of cancer, the chief executive who …
Trends in Chinese transparency and philanthropy
A report issued in early January dealt with transparency among China’s large foundations. Some of the results are reported in the chart below. Only 182 organizations published financial accounts in their annual reports. Among 240 …
Interview with Andreas Rickert
PHINEO, the German ‘NGO ratings agency’, was launched in 2010. It offers analysis of where best donors should grant their money in a hectic market of 550,000 NGOs in Germany. CEO of PHINEO Andreas Rickert …
Are Chinese foundations more transparent than American foundations?
On 29 August, the China Foundation Center launched its online Foundation Transparency Index, a ‘proactive solution to set a new standard for the ethical conduct of foundations in China’. Many people are surprised to learn …
Non-profit performance evaluation: impact (part 6 of 6)
Impact measurement has been dubbed the Holy Grail of all social enterprise. If non-profit and for-profit social enterprises could capture the lasting difference made from all the meetings, projects, programs, fundraisers, volunteers, budgets and staff, …
