Angela Kail
Angela leads the Research & Consulting team at NPC, driving the team’s focus on impact and managing its operations. The team supports and partners with organisations to help them articulate their purpose, manage to outcomes, understand their impact and learn. She leads debates in the sector on charity policy and philanthropy and frequently talks to media and at events. Recently Angela has been leading NPC’s work on the Cost of Living Crisis, highlighting the difficulties for charities at the current time.
Over the years at NPC, Angela has worked on a wide variety of consulting projects with both charities and funders. She has provided strategy advice to several large funders, including the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales. She is currently working on an evaluation of Catalytic Capital for the MacArthur Foundation.
Angela works closely with many philanthropists, helping them with their giving strategy; conducting due diligence on charities; and evaluating the performance of the grants. She also advises impact investors on the impact of their giving.
Angela was instrumental in developing NPC’s approach to theory of change, shared measurement and work with philanthropists.
Angela joined NPC in 2007 and prior to that was an investment analyst at Baillie Gifford for three years, one of the UK largest fund managers.
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Explore my work
Publications
Confronting the cost of living crisis
Review of grant subsidy for blended finance to support civil society
Lessons learnt from working on the EU Settlement Scheme
A rebalancing act: How funders can address power dynamics
Blogs
Where next for charities and society?
Incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion into our consulting work
Thoughts on how the sector can rethink and rebuild
How can the charity sector adapt to coronavirus?
How we can do better for the sector
Do we need more impactful corporate-charity partnerships?
Men-only fundraiser: Another trust battle for the sector
Foundation boards must ask: Are we being ambitious enough?
How can funders create impact?
Gold dust—Part 2: Measuring the value of unrestricted funding
Gold dust—Part 1: Why the sector needs more unrestricted funding
Charities and funders must communicate about impact measurement
Medical research: a dead end is never a failure
Collaborating to improve financial capability in the UK
What does slavery mean to you?
Sticking to your (funding) principles
No riots for Glasgow: How one charity is tackling gangs
The NSPCC’s strategy for a bigger impact
Talking about working together
A measurement framework for infrastructure organisations
The value of community organisations
Why violence against women charities may be vulnerable
Having the ambition to close down
Who’s to blame for charity cuts?
Why don’t charities sing their own praises?
Confronting the cost of living crisis
Review of grant subsidy for blended finance to support civil society
Lessons learnt from working on the EU Settlement Scheme
A rebalancing act: How funders can address power dynamics
Where next for charities and society?
Incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion into our consulting work
Thoughts on how the sector can rethink and rebuild
How can the charity sector adapt to coronavirus?
How we can do better for the sector
Do we need more impactful corporate-charity partnerships?
Men-only fundraiser: Another trust battle for the sector
Foundation boards must ask: Are we being ambitious enough?
How can funders create impact?
Gold dust—Part 2: Measuring the value of unrestricted funding
Gold dust—Part 1: Why the sector needs more unrestricted funding
Charities and funders must communicate about impact measurement
Medical research: a dead end is never a failure
Collaborating to improve financial capability in the UK
What does slavery mean to you?
Sticking to your (funding) principles
No riots for Glasgow: How one charity is tackling gangs
The NSPCC’s strategy for a bigger impact
Talking about working together
A measurement framework for infrastructure organisations
The value of community organisations
Why violence against women charities may be vulnerable
Having the ambition to close down
Who’s to blame for charity cuts?
Why don’t charities sing their own praises?
Director of Consulting
