Resources

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NCVO and CAF
UK Giving is an annual survey that began in 2004/5 and provides the latest research on individuals' giving to charity - how much is given, who the donors are, where...
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Adessy Associates
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 Associates suggests. Constructive...
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Big Society Capital
The UK’s social investment market could be worth £1bn by 2016, according to a Big Society Capital report The First Billion: a forecast of social investment demand. It says that...
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Bellagio Initiative
This report makes a number of key recommendations to philanthropic and development organisations. They are: Build new development theories, through work with people on the ground, that have global-ownership and...
Book Review
Olivier Zunz Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 381pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-691-12836-8.£19.95 There are three kinds of book reviews that are tricky to write. The first is when the book is not very good and diplomacy is required to convey an...
Definition
An organisation which offers support to, and coordination of charities sharing a common interest (i.e. in a particular sector or geography). Umbrella groups are often membership bodies.
Definition
An organisation which uses all money earned or donated to pursue its objectives, and does not distribute profits to owners. In the UK the term not-for-profit is more commonly used with the same...
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Voluntary organisation which benefits the public in a way the law says is charitable ( Charity Commission definition).