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How innovation can make philanthropy more equitable, diverse, and inclusive
By Tris Lumley.
On 4 October 2022.
Looking for a hybrid approach that combines the legitimacy and potential scale of bottom-up approaches with the coordination, leverage, learning, and replicability that top-down approaches promise.
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Tania Cohen: What more can be done with data?
By Tania Cohen, Chief Executive of 360 Giving .
On 4 July 2022.
To mark our 20th birthday, we spoke with Tania Cohen to ask: What more can be done with data?
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Jonathan Breckon: Where next for the impact and what works agenda?
By Jonathan Breckon, policy fellow at UCL’s Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement and the director of Breckon Consulting Ltd .
On 20 June 2022.
To mark our 20th birthday, we spoke with Jonathan Breckon to ask: Where next for the impact and what works agenda?
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Samuel Kasumu: How political should charities be?
By Samuel Kasumu, former no10 adviser and founder of Inclusive Boards.
On 20 June 2022.
To mark our 20th birthday, we spoke with Samuel Kasumu to ask: How political should charities be?
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Ending the need for food banks in the UK: Why we’re joining the Local needs databank
By Grace Wyld.
On 25 May 2022.
This guest blog by Grace Wyld, who works in the Trussell Trust’s Policy Research team, discusses the cost of living crisis, putting data at the heart of their mission, and the addition of the Trussell Trust’s data to NPC’s Local needs databank.
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Local needs databank
On 25 May 2022.
The tool that helps you better understand needs and charity work across the UK.
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Data can help charities, funders and policymakers better understand needs
By Rosario Piazza .
On 9 February 2022.
The Local needs databank pulls together over 50 indicators of need for all 382 local authorities and government districts in the UK. By sharing intelligence and collectively making sense of the inequalities we face, we will gradually reduce them.
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A big year for social impact and for NPC
By Dan Corry .
On 6 January 2022.
For us at NPC, 2022 is our 20th year of existence. 20 years working with, and as part of, this terrific charity and philanthropy sector to help it maximise its social impact. Already this year we are excited by lots of things we have upcoming.
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Rethink, Rebuild
On 16 September 2021.
The covid-19 pandemic brought about a host of changes in the experience and practises of charities and funders in the UK. We set up Rethink Rebuild to find out what those changes are, which changes helped make charities more impactful, and how they could be continued.
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From shared data to shared intelligence
On 16 September 2021.
Shared intelligence allows charities, funders and service providers of all kinds to access more and better quality data, strengthen evidence-led grant-making and service provision, and improve collective reflection and analysis.
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An update on ‘Data Labs’
By Rosario Piazza .
On 17 August 2021.
Our 'Data Labs' project aims to open up government administrative data to the charity sector. Data Labs allow organisations to answer the all-important question: did we make a difference?
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How to measure the health of the charity sector
By Tom Collinge .
On 22 July 2021.
With the recent relaxation of Covid-19 regulations in England, can we find a metric that helps us better understand the health of our sector as we enter a world without coronavirus restrictions?
