Kate Middleton’s charities: a curious but quite good set for a beginner
The Duchess Formerly Known as Kate Middleton announced today her first four charity affiliations. It’s a quirky set. If she’s clever, Kate (if we’re still allowed to call her that) can add a load more...
View ArticleImproving your fundraising hit-rate
This article first appeared on The Guardian’s Voluntary Sector Network. Do you play the National Lottery? Why ever not, given that you could win a few million pounds which I dare say you’d find pretty...
View ArticlePublicising charities’ admin spend would be a disaster
This first appeared in The Guardian, and is co-authored with Kurt Hoffman, DIrector of the Institute of Philanthropy Joe Saxton suggested last month that charities must do more to explain their...
View ArticleGood charities spend more on administration than less good charities spend
Ground-breaking analysis by Giving Evidence disproves the popular idea that charities should spend less on administration. This is the first analysis which shows (doesn’t just argue) that...
View ArticleDo matched giving schemes work?
This article was first published by Philanthropy Impact magazine. Many fundraisers tell us that donors give more if a match is available, that is, somebody else will also give if, and only if, they...
View ArticleHow do you make people give more? Research in the US has some surprising...
In the US, individual charitable giving is much vaunted, but it’s flat. Once you adjust for inflation, it’s been between 2 per cent and 2.2 per cent of income for more than 30 years. Identifying how to...
View ArticleDonors don’t care much about impact! (say the data)
This article first published in Third Sector. There has been a huge rise in interest recently in the impact charities have, so it’s remarkable that only now are we seeing rigorous evidence emerging...
View ArticleNon-publication of charities’ research: groundbreaking new project!
This was first published by our friends at Evidence Matters. It’s hard to make evidence-based decisions if much of the evidence is missing, ropey, unclear or you can’t find it. Charities produce masses...
View ArticleBehavioural insights are rocket-fuel for charities
Few people can claim that their work has been used routinely to inform or improve fundraising, reproductive health, the governance of African countries or road safety, or to help people to get jobs or...
View ArticleNSPCC’s stats on child addiction to porn don’t stand up to scrutiny
Oh dear. The NSPCC seems to have lost the moral high ground to – of all people –Vice magazine, a trendy periodical that is mainly about trainers and unconventional sex. The children’s charity recently...
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