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The Hintze Family Charitable Foundation has donated £2m to the National Gallery in recognition of the enjoyment hedge fund investor Michael Hintze and his family have derived from the art collections there.

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Despite a 3% real terms decrease in donations to the arts, the situation “could have been much worse” in the light of the recession, says Colin Tweedy, chief executive of...

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A mooted £1.5bn donation to the Big Society Bank from commercial banks may be dropped according to reports this week.

Apparently ‘Project Merlin’ talks between the government and Lloyds, Barclays, Royal...

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 Writing cheques is not enough to make a significant difference to society, according to a Harvard Business Review article published  this week. 

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Alex Reynolds, director of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) in England, is taking up one of the recommendations of the Giving Green Paper to promote philanthropy at grass-roots...

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A new survey provides evidence of opportunities for significant growth and the fundamental need for capacity building to increase income from legacies.

The survey by Arts Quarter/Legacy Foresight shows only 41%...

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Government has "missed an opportunity" in calling for wholly private funding for the proposed Early Intervention Foundation announced in a government report this week, says Daniela Barone Soares, chief executive of venture philanthropy organisation ...

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The drive to persuade individuals to contribute their time continues with the announcement by the Cabinet Office of a range of small-scale contracts and grants to organisations to fund the...

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The Big Society weekly Award scheme launched by the prime minister eight weeks ago to celebrate excellent examples of the Big Society in action has, so far, made five awards. None has gone...

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Any philanthropist who wants to change the world, wants to know how change happens. Great change is going to be needed to create a low-carbon, sustainable world, and ‘How Change...

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