Author Archives: carolinefiennes

{Warning: this post has nothing to do with philanthropy. It’s to do with science. Sort of.} As widely discussed in the press (i.e., written about by me on Twitter..!), I recently ran a little trial to see whether people (specifically … Continue reading →

This article first published in the British Medical Journal. My mum died in 2016, a more decorous and peaceful end of life would be hard to imagine. That she died well is a huge blessing: not everybody gets that privilege. … Continue reading →

This article first published in the Financial Times in May 2018 Donors can encourage charities to seek feedback Oxfam’s UK chief executive announced his resignation last week, after a spate of damaging allegations of abuse by the charity’s frontline staff … Continue reading →

This article first published in the Financial Times in January 2018 A growing number of funds take a shorter-term approach Having spent its entire war chest of $100m, the Skoll Global Threats Fund closed last month. Jeff Skoll, eBay’s first … Continue reading →

With Charity Futures, Giving Evidence has run two projects which combine to identify priority areas for new academic research into charities and philanthropy. These studies are prompted by the growing amount of academic research activity around charities and philanthropy, including … Continue reading →

This article first published in Charity Finance magazine. A PDF copy is here. Esmee Fairbairn Foundation released a report about its experience of providing core  funding. Entitled Insights on Core Funding, one of its aims is to “provide the organisations … Continue reading →

This article first published in the Financial Times in February 2018. Much the same issues apply now to organisations declining funds from the Sackler Trust. Among the many issues to have arisen from the FT’s exposé of the Presidents Club … Continue reading →

A version of this article published in the Financial Times in January 2019 My financial resolution for this year – as flagged by FT Money earlier this month – is to review the charities in my will. I wrote my will … Continue reading →

With Keystone Accountability, we recently worked for a funder who was relatively new to knowledge management. We created for them a ‘primer’ to introduce some of the key concepts, and are publishing it because we feel, and hope, that the … Continue reading →