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Expert Opinions on topic areas can be a useful way of keeping up-to-date. To this end, a few of our Expert Opinions are being revised and new ones developed. If you would like to suggest an expert opinon on a particular topic, then please email your suggestion to administration@philanthropy-impact.org

Choosing the Right Vehicle for Giving: Donor-Advised Fund or Foundation
Expert opinion
Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are a well-established vehicle for philanthropy in the United States – where contributions to DAFs reached $23.27 billion in 2016 1 – and their popularity in the...
Million-pound donations on the rise, finds Coutts
Expert opinion
A total of nearly £15bn has been donated in the UK by individuals, foundations and corporations over the past 10 years, according to the latest Coutts Million Pound Donors Report...
Awakening the millennial philanthropist: A guide for professional advisers
Expert opinion
By encouraging your clients’ millennial children to think about philanthropy now, you stand a better chance of keeping them as clients in the future. Over 90% of heirs will change...
Twenty Years of Hitting the Giving Target
Expert opinion
When I set up my charitable foundation twenty years ago my aim was to be pioneering and disruptive in the two fields that I know and care about: information technology...
Microfinance Funds as catalysts for foreign private investments in emerging microfinance markets: evidence from a decade of data and analysis.
Expert opinion
Microfinance, a lead sector within the larger impact investing spectrum [1] , has gained prominence from development-minded investors over the past decades. Initially, international funding into microfinance was generated largely...
Reporting on social impact investment – what is meaningful?
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Last week we published the first Social Impact Report for the Resonance Bristol SITR Fund. The Fund is investing in social enterprises in and around Bristol under the broad agenda...
The growing appetite for social investment and how charities are increasingly making it part of their funding mix
Expert opinion
The market for socially responsible investing is growing around the world, but particularly in Europe and the USA. A global survey [i] of investors found that respondents had committed $10.6...
A whole new world: funding and commissioning in complexity
Expert opinion
How should organisations which have a desire to help improve people’s lives, and resources to allocate to achieve this goal, manage the distribution of those resources most effectively? This is...
There is Real Good to be Done
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Each May a report is published on our nation’s wealthiest, which includes the Sunday Times Giving List. The Giving List, prepared in collaboration with the Charity Aid Foundation, highlights the...
Corporate citizenship study sheds light on corporate philanthropy in Germany
Expert opinion
Corporate Philanthropy is one of the many “niches” in the world of giving. There are not many reliable numbers on corporate foundations but if they are just a bit in...

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