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Author Archives: carolinefiennes
What to when when you’re badly treated by a funder?
Jake Hayman was right in his recent blog Not Fit For Purpose: Why I’m Done With the Foundation World – there are major problems with charitable funding. We can see this just from the fact that charities normally pay between … Continue reading
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A welcome public row about donor effectiveness
Well done Malcolm Gladwell. On Wednesday this week, Harvard announced its biggest gift ever, $400m from the American hedge fund manager John Paulson for its school of engineering and applied sciences. Gladwell ridiculed it: ‘It came down to helping the … Continue reading
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Do gongs from HM Queen make any difference?
This article first published in Third Sector Magazine. It’s June, which brings the Queen’s official birthday, and perhaps this year you – like many charity sector people before you – will get lucky and appear in the Birthday Honours list. … Continue reading
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Why I support AllTrials & suggest that you do too
This article was first published by The Life You Can Save. Alessandro Liberato was suffering from multiple myeloma and trying to decide whether to go through the trauma – for the second time – of a bone marrow transplant. “There … Continue reading
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Helping mainstream donors to give better
If you want to give to, say, cancer and want to find a good charity in that, how can you currently find out which org is any good? Essentially you can’t: charity ‘due diligence’ is way too hard for almost … Continue reading
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The key barriers to strategic philanthropy are practical
This was published by Stanford Social Innovation Review in a series about strategic philanthropy. Encouraging more strategic philanthropy is a behavior change exercise. Paul Brest and I are fellow travellers and co-conspirators in that mission. But his article implies that … Continue reading
Behavioural insights are rocket-fuel for charities
Few people can claim that their work has been used routinely to inform or improve fundraising, reproductive health, the governance of African countries or road safety, or to help people to get jobs or quit smoking; but the US economist … Continue reading
Charities should get good at research uptake
Every school child knows that vitamin C prevents scurvy. But how long was it from when James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, made that important discovery in 1747 until the British Navy started providing fruit juice to sailors? At that … Continue reading
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