Thursday, January 26, 2012
Three major initiatives inspiring and celebrating generosity and giving, backed by major philanthropists, have announced themselves this week, perhaps making 2012 the unofficial year of doing more good.
The initiatives call for action now in response to the growing need in communities among charities serving the vulnerable and poor.
Mike Dickson, founder of Whizz-kidz, the action-orientated charity that has raised £75m to date to help 7000 disabled children become mobile, this week launched two initiatives:
Thursday, January 26, 2012
New donors are helping to boost environmental philanthropy by UK-based trusts and foundations, finds a report published by the Environmental Funders Network (EFN) today (Friday, January 27th).
The report, Where The Green Grants Went 5 (WTGGW5), records a big increase in the proportion of environmental philanthropy going to tackle climate change, averaging 21% of green spend over the three years to 2009/10 - up from less than 9% in 2005/06 to 2006/07.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
A call for more consolidated research into giving follows the publication of two surveys that shows different levels of donations for the UK in 2011.
According to a new survey from Investec, donations to charity dropped by 12% over the last year, while the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) in its Giving UK 2011 survey says donations rose slightly from £10.6bn to £11bn. However, they remained static if adjusted for inflation.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
In this turbulent economic time, we asked philanthropy expert and Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy co-director Cathy Pharoah to predict what might happen in the coming year. She predicts new trends in giving powered by digital development and market sophistication, more competition between charitable sectors as fundraising capacity develops and a greater focus globally. She says a weak economy as predicted is bound to impact on levels of giving. Here are her top 10 predictions:
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Institute of Fundraising (IoF) plans to promote giving as part of its new five-year strategic plan but will not include donors in its research to find out what more it could do. It will focus on a consultation with members.
A spokeswoman said: “We do see a role for the Institute in helping to increase giving more widely by equipping fundraisers to make the ask from donors in the best way possible, and we would like to see donors in the UK giving to their full potential.”
Thursday, January 26, 2012
In a boost to the philanthropy advisory sector, STEP, The Society of Trust & Estate Practitioner and EAPG, The European Association for Philanthropy and Giving, have agreed to work together to provide a jointly developed educational series for advisors.
The Philanthropy Programme is underpinned by a programme advisory committee chaired by Lord Janvrin, non-executive director of HSBC Private Bank. It comprises five events and is aimed at providers of philanthropy and major charitable giving advice.
