Resources

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Association of Charitable Foundations
This Association of Charitable Foundation (ACF) booklet offers philanthropists, and permanent or shorter term funders who are concerned about their mission and effectiveness, insight and learning on effective grant-making. ACF...
Report
Institute for Philanthropy
In recent years, charitable trust and foundation trustees have engaged in an increasing number of conversations and debates on the phenomenon of ‘spend out'. Spend out, known in the USA...
Book List
A study of family foundations based on the experiences of thirty families in the USA and Canada.
Book List
Original research into the beneficial effects of promoting gender equity via grant-making.
Report
The Foundation Center and Council on Foundations
The question of whether a foundation should exist forever (in perpetuity) by building up an endowment and distributing only the interest, or should ‘spend down’ by spending both capital and...
Book List
Critical masses explores the role of campaigning charities and highlights the significant part they can play in changing legislation, shifting attitudes and creating long-term change.
Book List
This book investigates the role of voluntary action and nonprofit organization in contemporary America.
Book List
This short publication aims to help create a stronger non-profit marketplace by answering two related questions: how can donors be helped to make smart philanthropic decisions?
Book List
Although Surrey is one of the wealthiest counties in the UK, this report demonstrates that it has many pockets of deprivation, which suffer the double disadvantage of going largely unnoticed and re
Book List
This report, authored by David Bonbright of Keystone Accountability, David Campbell of Binghamton University (USA), and Linda Nguyen of the Alliance for Children and Families USA, argues that human

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