When Jane Swift, Chair of BT Executive Women, came across stories of women struggling globally against violence and suffering, she was hard pressed to see how it might relate to...
As corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to move up the board room agenda, one area of CSR – community investment – continues to lag behind. Corporate giving stubbornly remains at...
This edition of the Philanthropy UK Quarterly explores many aspects of promoting philanthropy. It highlights some interesting factors around giving and sets the context for philanthropy in a ‘new age’.
In light of the recent devastation of the Sichuan province in China this is a challenging time for the country, revealing much about its approach to private and public giving.
Community development finance is the provision of debt and equity finance (loans and shares) in communities or markets where mainstream financial services are weak and which are said to be...
The Oxford Givers’ Circle is a network of friends who quietly and consistently support the work of the charity WOMANKIND Worldwide by giving money annually and by telling friends and...
Former Chief Executive of Crisis Shaks Ghosh has been appointed Chief Executive at the Private Equity Foundation (PEF), the charitable vehicle for the European private equity industry.
The UK’s first independent, multidisciplinary, and academically based Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy has now been established, with three programmes and a hub receiving joint investment of £2.2m over...