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Download this article as pdf. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” This quote has been attributed to Peter Drucker and famously adopted by McKinsey. Philanthropy thrives on...
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Download this article as pdf. Philanthropy is no longer a simple act of giving – the new generation of philanthropists are committed, innovative and engaged – they want to be...
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Download this article as a PDF. St John’s Hospital is a locally focused charity in Bath, which has grown since 1174 to become a major philanthropic charitable foundation, built on...
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Download this article as pdf. In 2009, after years of abuse at the hands of her partner, Emma fled her home in Gateshead. She turned to the local women’s refuge,...
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Download this article as pdf. What is philanthropy? The term philanthropy, as many readers will recognise, means ‘love of humanity’ typically in the sense of caring, nourishing, developing and enhancing...
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Download this article as pdf. “Philanthropy – the promotion of welfare of others especially by generous donation of money to good causes.” Of itself, the definition is self-congratulating and self-perpetuating...
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Download the article as a PDF. For the past five years, I have had the privilege of being Chief Executive of Oxfordshire Community Foundation. After a lifetime in corporate business...
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Download this article as pdf. Charities have (or will very shortly have) a new statutory power to make social investments introduced by the Charities (protection and Social investment) Act 2016...
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Download this article as a PDF. There are a number of fronts on which the harsher impacts of an increasingly globalised and commodified world economy are being resisted and beaten...