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You might find some of these reports useful. Some reports are held as PDF documents within the site and others link to other sites.

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Northern Rock Foundation
This paper summarises a fuller report on research commissioned by the Northern Rock Foundation’s Third Sector Trends Study (TSTS) to assess the scale and distribution of ‘below-the-radar’ (BTR) organisations. The...
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Carnegie UK Trust
This final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, argues that civil society has been pushed to the margins in key areas including politics, finance...
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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Written at the request of programme staff at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this paper is intended to provoke discussion about the tradition, necessity, and benefits of endowment funds in...
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Centre for Giving and Philanthropy and Pears Foundation
This publication is the second report on family foundation philanthropy written by Pharoah, who is co-director of the ESRC Research Centre for Giving and Philanthropy. It updates and greatly expands...
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Charity Commission
This report offers a ‘snap-shot’ of the impact of the current recession on UK charitable trusts and foundations. It is based on in-depth interviews conducted in April 2009 with 19...
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Association of Charitable Foundations
This Association of Charitable Foundation (ACF) booklet offers philanthropists, and permanent or shorter term funders who are concerned about their mission and effectiveness, insight and learning on effective grant-making. ACF...
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Institute for Philanthropy
In recent years, charitable trust and foundation trustees have engaged in an increasing number of conversations and debates on the phenomenon of ‘spend out'. Spend out, known in the USA...
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The Foundation Center and Council on Foundations
The question of whether a foundation should exist forever (in perpetuity) by building up an endowment and distributing only the interest, or should ‘spend down’ by spending both capital and...
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Arts & Business
This report contains the findings of a study into the motivations of individual supporters of the arts; both donors and recipient organizations were surveyed between November 2008 and March 2009...
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Charities Aid Foundation
This report presents the findings of a survey conducted by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Research, into what the general public and CAF individual customers think charities could do differently to...

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