Resources

Expert opinion
Contemporary Britain is defined by the personal generosity and social commitment of our predecessors as much as by the state. But as the state retreats, demands on the voluntary sector...
Report
Urban Institute Center on NonProfits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Centre
As rising budgetary pressures force policymakers to find ways to reduce spending and increase tax revenue, a new attention has been given to proposals that reduce or eliminate the income...
Book
By:
Cheng, Willie and William D Green
Well worth reading.
Book
By:
Cheng, Willie and Sharifah Mohamed
An Asian viewpoint on philanthropy and innovation.
Report
The Philanthropy Review (UK)
This report sets out a number of recommendations to encourage giving in the UK. Sir Tom Hughes-Hallett led the development of this report with a core group of leading philanthropists.
Report
Monitor Group LLP
The combination of the new ecology and the responses to it suggests that philanthropy has entered a fascinating and perplexing moment of transition. The old norms and practices don't fee...
Report
Grant Craft and European Foundation Centre
Philanthropy and the Social Economy: Blueprint 2013 is an annual industry forecast written by leading philanthropy scholar Lucy Bernholz about the social economy — private capital used for public good...
Report
DCMS
This report, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport, examines ways in which higher levels of philanthropy and increased fundraising capacity for the culture and heritage...
Book List
Australian philosopher and Princeton’s touring professor Peter Singer returns to a pet topic in this book – no, not man’s treatment of animals, for which he found notoriety follow