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Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Organisation
BLP work with high net worth individuals who are often faced with increasingly complex tax and regulatory rules. BLP provide them with the advice they need to deal with these challenges.
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Grant Craft and European Foundation Centre
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013 is an annual industry forecast written by leading philanthropy scholar Lucy Bernholz about the social economy — private capital used for public good...
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CGAP
Surveys of charitable giving in the UK often present their results as if they provided a single definitive answer. For example, the recent UK Giving 2012 report (CAF/NCVO, 2012) claims...
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DCMS
This report, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, examines ways in which higher levels of philanthropy and increased fundraising capacity for the culture and heritage...
Expert opinion
By Julian Smith and Elizabeth Jones 
 Farrer & Co Highlights CICs are designed to be social enterprises and signify to third parties that the company operates for a community...
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Baring Foundation, London
Since 2006 the Baring Foundation’s grants programme ‘Strengthening the Voluntary Sector’, has taken a close interest in deepening understanding of the changing nature of the independence of voluntary action. Given...
Definition
Limited companies, with special additional features, created for the use of people who want to conduct a business or other activity for community benefit, and not purely for private advantage ( CIC...
Expert opinion
Ben Hughes Chief Executive, Community Development Finance Association (CDFA) Delivering fair and affordable finance for our communities Bringing financial and social benefits Increasing impact by recycling funds Offering a tax-efficient...
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HM Government
The Government’s Giving Green Paper has kickstarted the debate around how to catalyse a culture shift that makes social action a norm, wrapping five key tenets it believes could bring...
Book List
The author of this book is not a typical writer on philanthropy; Gunderman is a professor of paediatrics, radiology and medical education, as well as associate professor at Indiana’s Center on Philanthropy. It is therefore not surprising that his book...

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