Charitable Giving and Philanthropy

Read the Family Foundation Philanthropy Report 2009. (pdf)

A new publication on research on NGO-corporate relationships was launched at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), Nottingham Business School, last week. The research provides some detailed case-studies of partnership working between major UK charities and companies'. CGAP's Cathy Pharoah spoke at the launch. More about the publication.

CGAP Co-Director Jenny Harrow presented at the ESRC Research Seminar series on 'Corporate Social Responsibility: When Worlds Collide'.

NCVO’s UK Civil Society Almanac 2010. This annual publication – now in its 10th edition – is completely revised and includes information from NCVO’s research programme, plus the latest data from other sources.

Two major reports on findings from the Northern Rock Foundation’s Third Sector Trends Study (TSTS) are published today. The reports are both ‘works in progress’ from the TSTS, and their emerging findings already contain important new messages for sector researchers, practitioners, funders and policy-makers. The reports examine the realities behind some of the dominant rhetoric which currently influences thinking about the local third sector.

Greater government aid to overseas development charities does not discourage individual giving, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Click here for the Press Release.

As part of its ongoing consultation on reform of Gift Aid, Treasury/HMRC have published new economic research studying possible donor responses to different options.

CGAP Researcher Beth Breeze: new data on donations worth £1 million + shows resilience of UK philanthropy. Read the report here. (pdf)

Karl Wilding on voluntary taxation in Giving to Government. Join the discussion here.

CGAP Researcher Eleanor Shaw and colleagues on Unsung Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurship for Social Gain. Funded by Barclays Bank.

CGAP Researcher Beth Breeze on Findings of the Family Business Philanthropy and Social Responsibility Inquiry.

Mapping the scale of the youth sub-sector, with a review of the potential impact of recession on its voluntary and other income, drawing on existing and new data.

CGAP opinion piece on future for planned giving and tax reliefs in Third Sector.

A vote of confidence? How voting impacts corporate partnerships by Beth Breeze, CGAP Researcher based at the University of Kent.

Rethinking recession: New research on the implications of the recession for the youth sector

Professor Cathy Pharoah on Levering communications for fundraising. [pdf]

New research on potential for charity outsourcing in the recession by Cathy Pharoah. Summary of the research. [pdf]

The first Family Foundation Philanthropy report was published in January 2008 aiming to benchmark trends in family foundation giving in the UK and internationally.

Cathy Pharoah presented a paper at the CINEFOGO conference in November, Berlin

Stephen Osborne (University of Edinburgh) and Jenny Harrow who direct CGAP’s programme on the institutions of grant-making led a seminar on public management and philanthropy, Meiji University, Tokyo, in December 2008.

The Northern Rock Foundation's Third Sector Trends Study: a brief description of the policy and research background. [pdf] by Cathy Pharoah and Rob Williamson.

Professor Cathy Pharoah on Trends and challenges in the emerging private, philanthropic and statutory funding environments for the third sector.[pdf]

The Pears Foundation is partnering with CGAP to update last year's innovative report 'Family Foundation Philanthropy'

CGAP feature in Times Online on future of income for foundations.