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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
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
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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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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