Download this article as a PDF. New instruments are emerging that show an indication of a reshaped capitalism, one in which economic activity is looked at with a new eye...
Download this article as pdf. In 2009, after years of abuse at the hands of her partner, Emma fled her home in Gateshead. She turned to the local women’s refuge,...
Download this article as pdf. What is philanthropy? The term philanthropy, as many readers will recognise, means ‘love of humanity’ typically in the sense of caring, nourishing, developing and enhancing...
When an organisation tries to achieve some social good, they won’t know whether they are achieving it unless they measure the impact of that work. This can be extremely tough...
Download this article as pdf. People who fund philanthropic enterprises have a natural inclination to want to ensure that their money is used for the purposes for which they gave...
Download this article as pdf. Maximising impact means looking not only at what we do but at what we are as organisations, exploring whether we are fit for purpose. The...
Download this article as pdf. “Philanthropy – the promotion of welfare of others especially by generous donation of money to good causes.” Of itself, the definition is self-congratulating and self-perpetuating...
Download the article as a PDF. For the past five years, I have had the privilege of being Chief Executive of Oxfordshire Community Foundation. After a lifetime in corporate business...
Download this article as pdf. Charities have (or will very shortly have) a new statutory power to make social investments introduced by the Charities (protection and Social investment) Act 2016...
Download the article as pdf. Some 15 years ago, after a period as CEO of a major family foundation in Melbourne, Australia, I took to the business school of a...
