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Author Archives: carolinefiennes
Systematic review of evidence to inform funding practice: outdoor learning
“What is known about what works and what doesn’t? What can we learn from the existing literature and experience of other organisations about what works and what doesn’t – and for whom and in what circumstances – which can help … Continue reading
Don’t wish for a giving culture like the US
This In February, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, made the largest- ever single gift to a US hospital – $75m (£49m) to a San Francisco institution. We often hear that the charitable sector in the UK should emulate the giving … Continue reading
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Kids Company shows a general problem
Dreadful practice at the well-known charity Kids Company – around services, governance and evaluation – are exposed in The Spectator and by Genevieve Maitland Hudson here. Evaluations of a charity’s work are the main tool by which public donors and taxpayers can … Continue reading
Donors don’t care much about impact! (say the data)
This article first published in Third Sector. There has been a huge rise in interest recently in the impact charities have, so it’s remarkable that only now are we seeing rigorous evidence emerging about whether donors actually care. It’s a … Continue reading
Enabling Make Better Decisions: Meta-Research to the Rescue!
This article was first published by our friends at The Life You Can Save. It’s hard to make evidence-based decisions if much of the evidence is missing, ropey, unclear, or you can’t find it. This has become Giving Evidence’s unofficial … Continue reading
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Charities should do much less evaluation
Stand over there, would you, while I throw this wellington boot. I want you to see how well I throw it. Pay attention: you need to judge me on my welly-throwing. Oops, that throw wasn’t very good! Let’s not count … Continue reading
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How do you make people give more? Research in the US has some surprising messages
In the US, individual charitable giving is much vaunted, but it’s flat. Once you adjust for inflation, it’s been between 2 per cent and 2.2 per cent of income for more than 30 years. Identifying how to increase giving is … Continue reading
Charities should do fewer evaluations; those few can be better
It’s hard to make evidence based decisions if much of the evidence is missing, garbage, unclear, or you can’t find it. Talk given in Barcelona (18 mins) More examples of important evidence being missing or garbage–> What Giving Evidence is doing … Continue reading
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Give Your Best, this Giving Tuesday
Caroline Fiennes explains how to maximize the effect of your donation, even if you have no money at all. [This article was first published by GivingTuesday.] The basics which you must know about charities before you start Some charities are miles … Continue reading
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