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- One donor’s fantastic work to encourage use of evidence, and production of more, to fight factory farming
- Reducing the Administrative Burden Placed on UK Charities by UK Donors and Funders
- Letter in The Economist about anti-malarial bednets
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- Why most ratings of charities are useless: the available information isn’t important and the important information isn’t available
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Surprising churn in the top UK foundations
How much churn is there amongst the largest UK grant-making foundations (by giving budget)? One might expect basically none, because huge foundations don’t get created very often, and foundations don’t compete for resources. Giving Evidence looks at these data each … Continue reading
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Why the system for charities applying to foundations is so expensive, and what can be done about it
The system by which charities apply to charitable foundations for funding is dreadful. When I ran anoperational charity, I and the team spent far too long on it – often simply re-writing and re-formatting the same information multiple times into … Continue reading
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Getting evidence to influence public policy
How to get research to influence policy Continue reading
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The curious relationship between the number of staff and number of trustees in foundations
UK charities, including foundations, are unusual organisations in that it is pretty common to have more trustees than staff. The trustees are non-executive directors, they are almost invariably unpaid, and collectively comprise the board. It is rare in businesses and … Continue reading
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Having Too Few Personnel Compromises Foundations’ Performance on Key Issues
A clear finding from the Foundation Practice Rating Year One research – which assessed 100 UK-based charitable grant-making foundations – is that foundations with few trustees, or few staff, tend to perform poorly on diversity, accountability and transparency. This matters … Continue reading
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One donor’s fantastic work to encourage use of evidence, and production of more, to fight factory farming
This article appeared in Alliance Magazine’s special edition about food systems. It shows a powerful approach to using and producing evidence which donors could use an any sector. Moving to a sustainable and fair food system is a giant challenge, … Continue reading
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Reducing the Administrative Burden Placed on UK Charities by UK Donors and Funders
Giving Evidence is delighted to be studying funders’ application processes – to try to figure out how to reduce the costs that funders create for operational nonprofits. This is a hugely important topic, so we have written about it publicly, … Continue reading
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Letter in The Economist about anti-malarial bednets
Giving Evidence’s Director, Caroline Fiennes, has a letter in The Economist this week. Giving Evidence’s existence is about directing philanthropic resources to effective & cost-effective work. So we were horrified by a letter in The Economist two weeks ago which … Continue reading
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Rating UK foundations on their transparency, accountability and diversity
UK charitable foundation staff and trustees are very white and very male. They’re also often senior in years, and pretty posh. None of those characteristics is necessarily a problem of itself, but (a) the homogeneity creates risk of lacking diversity … Continue reading
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Why most ratings of charities are useless: the available information isn’t important and the important information isn’t available
A Which? Magazine-type reliable rating of a wide range of charities would indeed be helpful. Unfortunately it’s currently impossible. Most months, somebody contacts me saying that they’re setting up some website / app to rate loads of charities – to … Continue reading
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