Richard and Joan Branson are among five UK billionaires who signed up to the Giving Pledge, co-founded by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, on 19 February2013.
More than a quarter of people (26%) who give money to charity expect to reduce donations in the next year, according to a survey carried out for the Charities...
Wealthy US households maintained giving at 9% of household income between 2009 and 2011, and 76% plan to give as much or more during the next three to five years,...
News that giving in the UK dropped an unprecedented 20% (£2.3bn) in real terms last year to £9.3bn has sparked a ‘Back Britain’s Charities’ campaign aimed at boosting...
Donors are more likely to identify practical and personal motivations for philanthropy, but prioritise idealistic and altruistic considerations, a report published in September by philanthropy advisors Adessy Assocites suggests.
Young people are failing to give as much as older generations, which could lead to a “long-term crisis of giving” according to the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), which published a...
As new Culture Secretary Maria Miller tells arts organisations they need to get ‘better at asking than receiving’, a just-published report on Private Investment in Culture 2010/11 from Arts &...
Philanthropy is a social act, rather than an economic transaction and forms an important part of people’s identity, according to a paper presented in June by Dr Beth Breeze of...
Large companies are focusing more on in-kind donations, which fit their own business objectives, according to a report by Deloitte, the business advisory firm.