Was the long-awaited Giving White Paper a cause for celebration? Here Philanthropy UK offers a round-up of reaction to the initiatives in the Paper that aim to create a 'step change' in...
The Government’s long-awaited Giving White Paper is due to publish on Monday (May 23rd) and the weekend’s papers will be full of news on the state of philanthropy in the...
The creation of a new fellowship of philanthropists aimed at improving the effectiveness and amount of community giving and boosting donor networking has been announced by Community Foundation Network...
Ok…it’s not the headline that would appeal to the majority of donors but, more importantly, it might appeal to a large number of non-donors, says a new report that is exciting...
A call for a new, more active approach to corporate philanthropy, which took a broadside hit in the recession, came out of a lively debate at the first...
A £1.5m gift by businessman and philanthropist Dr Leonard Polonsky to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford will support library digitisation initiatives....
Jamie Oliver’s entry into this year’s Sunday Times Giving List has prompted sector leader Theresa Lloyd to ask why greater numbers of wealthy people do not give to charity.
An intervention by the top investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett sets the tone for the theme of this latest round-up of philanthropy in difficult economic times. Buffett told an audience...
Despite the official end of the recession - and despite fundraised income holding up better than expected - anxiety is the main theme of the latest Managing in a Downturn...
A fundraising letter written in 1925 by the famous author, magazine editor and advertising agency founder Bruce Barton that elicited a 100% response rate has many lessons for those wanting...