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Category Archives: Effective giving
What makes philanthropy succeed? – potentially revealing analysis
Remarkably little is known reliably about how to do philanthropy well – how to use it to achieve particular aims – despite philanthropy’s long and varied history. Giving Evidence (and others) is trying to fix this – to create reliable … Continue reading
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When charitable donations cost more than they give
Popularity contests for funding waste time and resources This article first published in the Financial Times in November 2016. Some charitable donors are a net drain: they cost organisations they seek to help more than they contribute. Others come pretty … Continue reading
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How to give it: Why charity should begin in the science lab
This article first published in the Financial Times in April 2016 Not all charities are good causes. This may sound surprising, because we’re used to thinking of them all as being somehow virtuous, but they vary in their effectiveness. Smart donors … Continue reading
Oops: we made the non-profit impact revolution go wrong
By Caroline Fiennes and Ken Berger, managing director of Algorhythm. The non-profit ‘impact revolution’ – over a decade’s work to increase the impact of non-profits – has gone in the wrong direction. As veterans and cheerleaders of the revolution, we are both … Continue reading
Making charity & philanthropy more evidence-based
Giving Evidence’s purpose is improving the effectiveness of charitable giving and charitable work by improving the quality of evidence on which they are based. The changes that we need are very analogous to changes which happened in medicine, in terms of … Continue reading
The charity sector should use more systematic reviews to leverage what’s already known
Any single piece of evaluation research, designed to understand the effect of an intervention, has limitations. It will examine the effect of a particular intervention on some particular outcomes in a particular group of people (‘population’), at a particular time. That’s … Continue reading
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