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Reducing the Administrative Burden Placed on UK Charities by UK Donors and...
New project! Giving Evidence is delighted to be starting a project to study funders’ application processes – to try to figure out how to reduce the costs that funders create for operational...
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One donor’s fantastic work to encourage use of evidence, and production of...
This article appeared in Alliance Magazine’s special edition about food systems. It shows a powerful approach to using and producing evidence which donors could use an any sector. Moving to a...
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Having Too Few Personnel Compromises Foundations’ Performance on Key Issues
A clear finding from the Foundation Practice Rating Year One research – which assessed 100 UK-based charitable grant-making foundations – is that foundations with few trustees, or few staff, tend to...
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The curious relationship between the number of staff and number of trustees...
UK charities, including foundations, are unusual organisations in that it is pretty common to have more trustees than staff. The trustees are non-executive directors, they are almost invariably...
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Getting evidence to influence public policy
Many researchers want their research to influence public policy Many charitable donors also want to influence / improve public policy and often fund the production of research and other activities to...
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Why the system for charities applying to foundations is so expensive, and...
The system by which charities apply to charitable foundations for funding is dreadful. When I ran anoperational charity, I and the team spent far too long on it – often simply re-writing and...
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Surprising churn in the top UK foundations
How much churn is there amongst the largest UK grant-making foundations (by giving budget)? One might expect basically none, because huge foundations don’t get created very often, and foundations...
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How diverse are UK foundations’ staff and boards?
Very few UK charitable foundations disclose the diversity of either their staff or their boards, according to research by Giving Evidence for the Foundation Practice Rating (FPR). Of the 100...
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Why the Fdn Practice Rating doesn’t assess the same foundations each year,...
The Foundation Practice Rating rates 100 UK charitable grant-making foundations each year on their practices on diversity, accountability and transparency. The set of foundations which we research and...
View ArticleMeasuring children’s safety in organisations: Evaluating the strengths and...
A new project will collate the measures used in studies of institutional responses to child abuse and show how both researchers and practitioners can use these measures, and the measures’...
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