Professor Nicholas Deakin, a respected figure in the charity sector, has been chosen as the chair designate of the new Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy.
GIVING, the International Journal on Philanthropy and Social Innovation published twice yearly in English and Italian, is seeking submissions for publication in its March 2008 issue on Social Entrepreneurship.
Social investment is a rapidly developing field attracting considerable policy interest, but as yet little research, and the ESRC and the Skoll Centre are sponsoring four interdisciplinary seminars to explore...
Screenwriter Richard Curtis will be honoured at this year’s BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards with the humanitarian award for his commitment to philanthropy.
London Funders, the membership organisation working with funders and investors that support London’s third sector, has appointed its first Director, Gaynor Humphreys.
The Government has pledged £515m of investment for the third sector in a combined Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report, confirming the funding plans originally outlined in the Third Sector...
A fund that aims to enable a greater number of charities to develop their organisational and operational capacity and achieve long term sustainability has been launched by The Cranfield Trust.
The "Nobel Prize for Philanthropy," the Carnegie Medals programme will this year, on October 17th, honour four of the world’s most prolific philanthropists – the Heinz family, the Mellon family,...
Impetus has announced its ninth investment in IntoUniversity, a charity dedicated to supporting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to aspire to and achieve a university place.