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Wide-ranging chat about charitable giving, with the Daily Mail. What to give to, what to avoid, one of Caroline’s favourite charities, how to choose a charity… (~20 minutes) Please click on the picture below to watch the full video.

New report! Giving Evidence has been consulting with UK charities and donors to identify the topics in which they would like further research (/ evidence / data) into charities and philanthropy. This was a large-scale and ground-breaking exercise, using a … Continue reading →

How can you tell if a charity is effective, when there is little independent analysis? This article first published in the Financial Times in March 2018. Judging by my inbox, there seems to be huge demand for advice about which … Continue reading →

VIDEO: Watch Caroline’s new lesson with the Fitzroy Academy! Full lesson here.

Making a big gift to draw other donors is only useful if the charity is highly effective This article first published in the Financial Times in December 2017. The practice of donors offering to “match” gifts made to charities they … Continue reading →

This article first published in Alliance Magazine. The first president of eBay, Jeff Skoll, set up his Global Threats Fund in 2010 to ‘make  progress against five of the gravest threats to humanity’: climate change, pandemics, water security, nuclear proliferation, … Continue reading →

If you, like millions of people, want to give this Christmas / holiday season, the following are all good bets, in our view: Medicins Sans Frontieres: They always seem to be to be where the sh*t is worst, e.g., Yemen, … Continue reading →

This article first published in the Financial Times in September 2017. Malala Yousafzai starts at Oxford university next week. The Nobel Peace Prize, which she shared at the age of 17, was for her work promoting the right of all … Continue reading →

This article first published in the Financial Times. Established fundraisers dominate — but they don’t have a monopoly on good ideas Death comes rarely to big charities. The Charity 100 Index lists the largest charities in the UK, and of … Continue reading →