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• Youth Investment Fund: Learning and insight paper three
• How are charities adapting to Covid-19? A series of Q&As with charities
• How charities can build a better Britain
• Our analysis of Covid-19 data from Buttle UK
• Briefing: Britain’s largest charities still face income hole
• Where is the government’s £750m package for charities being spent?
• Digital Skills
• Accelerated legacies
• Coronavirus response toolkit for charities
• State of the Sector 2020
• Interactive Covid-19 data for charities and funders
• Covid-19 data for charities and funders
• Collaborating for a cause
• State of the Sector 2020: The condition of charities before the COVID-19 crisis
• How philanthropists should respond to coronavirus
• NPC response to the consultation on the Charity Governance Code
• A rebalancing act: How funders can address power dynamics
• Understanding Impact
• Where are England’s charities?
• A new era of openness to drive a more impactful civil society: NPC’s manifesto for the new government
• Theory of change in ten steps
• Mechanisms – A missing component in your theory of change?
• How to engage young people in arts and culture
• Connect Fund: Interim learning report
• Learning together as a sector: NHS charities using shared measurement
• Consultation response to the Online Harms White Paper
• My best life 2
• Data Labs update
• Snaphots of the sector
• Is devolution the future of health and social care?
• Our framework for Place
• The Building Connections Fund: Co-design and community spaces
• Developing a learning organisation
• Keeping children safe online
• Walking the Talk
• Radical roots to practical action—the case for place
• Implementing and evaluating co-design
• Justice Select Committee Inquiry into Prison Governance: Response from NPC
• Youth Investment Fund: Learning and insight paper two
• Independent, Effective, Humane: The case for funding charities in the prison system
• Youth Investment Fund: Learning and insight paper one
• Charities, young people and digital mental health services
• Evaluating the Building Connections Fund
• 10 tips to help your project reduce loneliness
• Justice Data Lab: FAQ update
• Snapshots of the sector 2019: Place
• Settled status: What level of take-up can we expect?
• How are charities accessing people in prison to deliver vital services?
• Snapshots of the sector 2019: Diversity
• Snapshots of the sector 2019: Contracts
• Snapshots of the sector 2019: Involvement
• Snapshots of the sector 2019: Trust
• How are charities influencing change in the prison system?
• Snapshots of the sector 2019: Brexit
• Tackling the homelessness crisis: Why and how you should fund systemically
• Funding a good start: Philanthropy and the early years sector in the UK
• How the EU settlement scheme affects women and girls
• Where next for charities and civil society? Dan Corry’s NPC Ignites 2018 speech
• Let’s talk mission through mergers: A discussion for trustees
• Make it count: Why impact matters in user involvement
• Evaluation of the Building Resilient Economies programme
• Strengthening Probation, Building Confidence: Consultation Response from New Philanthropy Capital
• Settled? Avoiding pitfalls and maximising potential for those seeking post-Brexit settled status
• The Code of Good Governance: How to put it into practice
• Understanding women’s pathways through the criminal justice system
• Walking the talk on diversity
• Civil Society Strategy 2018: Consultation response
• Diversity in governance: The what, why and how
• In pursuit of deep impact and market-rate returns
• Let’s talk mission and merger
• Women and girls tech fund
• Developing your digital roadmap
• My best life: Priorities for digital technology in the youth sector
• Building more impactful corporate-charity partnerships
• Transition Advice Fund position paper
• Thinking big: How to use theory of change for systems change
• Tapping the potential: Lessons from the Richmond Group’s practical collaborative work in Somerset
• Collaborating for greater impact: Building an integrated data ecosystem
• Knowledge and Learning for social organisations aiming to grow or ‘scale-up’
• Assessing the impact practices of impact investments
• Choosing an electronic case management system for your organisation
• People not problems: Asset-based approaches in the charity sector
• More than grants collection: Pushing the boundaries of funding
• How to create an Impact Data Lab
• Annual return for 2018: Consultation response
• Keeping us well: How non-health charities address the social determinants of health
• User mapping techniques: A guide for the social sector
• NPC’s evidence for the Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement
• Towards an evidence-led social sector
• Data visualisation: What’s it all about?
• Data with destiny: How to turn your charity’s data into meaningful action
• Shifting the dial: How to take an impact-focused approach to your policy change campaigns
• Carry on, crocodiles: Healthy disagreement can help change broken systems
• Putting people with lived experience in the lead
• Who represents the human in the digital age?
• To tackle the country’s divisions, we must start locally
• How we faced swingeing cuts but came out swinging
• Reasons to be cheerful
• We need a new social contract. A local one.
• What does putting impact first look like?
• We can and must break out of our echo chambers
• Charities are underestimating the importance of trust. That’s a problem.
• Rockets not sausages: Let’s take a ‘trust-plus’ approach to the public
• We need brave, in-your-face, hard-headed governance
• Our work must be person-led, not systems-led
• How we’re building a greater scope for greater impact
• Why we need boldness and bravery in these times of change
• Flipping the narrative: Essays on transformation from the sector’s boldest voices
• Let’s embrace our difference from other sectors. Only then can everyone improve.
• Global innovations in measurement and evaluation
• Small charity trustees: How to overcome key challenges
• Charities taking charge: Transforming to face a changing world
• Four ideas to strengthen civil society: NPC’s open letter to the next UK government
• In your care: The role of philanthropy for children in care and care leavers
• The ‘Shared Society’ needs a strong civil society
• Beyond bars: Maximising the voluntary sector’s contribution in criminal justice
• Impact reporting: What trustees need to know
• Strategy for impact: NPC’s practical approach to strategy development for charities
• Annual return for 2017: Consultation response
• Making your funding go further: How impact practice can help funders do more with their giving
• Sharing is caring: Intellectual property and the charity sector
• NPC response to the consultation on the Charity Governance Code
• Best practice in fundraising: A guide for trustees
• How can charities maximise their impact by working with PCCs?
• Evidence and data collection for education start-ups
• Above and beyond in trusteeship: What good governance looks like
• What a difference a faith makes: Insights on faith-based charities
• User voice: Putting people at the heart of impact practice
• Valuing data: How to use it in your grant-making
• Neurological conditions in Scotland: A guide for funders
• Animal welfare in Scotland: A guide for funders
• Freeing up health analysis: Using government data to help improve health services
• NPC response the Lords Select Committee on Charities’ review
• What makes a good charity? NPC’s guide to charity analysis
• Invest in young lives: Building philanthropic support for disabled children and young people
• The Justice Data Lab synthesis and review of findings
• Education: A forgotten issue?
• How to make your data more meaningful
• What does good economic analysis look like?
• Reporting when things don’t go to plan
• Big Lottery Fund—NPC consultation response
• It starts from the top: Improving governance, improving impact
• Information provision for people with Multiple Sclerosis
• Boldness in times of change: Rethinking the charity sector for the future
• NPC’s response to the Cabinet Office mission-led business review
• Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR): Two years on
• How can the philanthropy sector improve?
• Giving more and better: How can the philanthropy sector improve?
• Solutions for sanctuary: An overview of the refugee and asylum charity sector in the UK
• Faith matters: Understanding the size, income and focus of faith-based charities
• Visual impairment in Scotland: A guide for funders
• Tackling child abuse in Scotland: A guide for funders
• Balancing act: A guide to proportionate evaluation
• NHS Charities: Evaluation guidance
• Freeing-up education analysis: Using government data to help improve educational outcomes for young people
• School report: How can charities work best in the school system?
• Understanding faith-based charities
• Faith data: Methodology
• Shaping the new Work and Health Programme
• Untapped potential: Bringing the voluntary sector’s strengths to health and care transformation
• Building the pipeline for the growth fund: Final report for the Access Foundation
• Social investment in Northern Ireland’s environmental NGO sector
• A balancing act: Charities and the 2016 Budget
• Charities and the life chances agenda
• Shared measurement: Greater than the sum of its parts
• Should you hitch your wagon to well-being?
• Listen and learn: How charities can use qualitative research
• NPC’s response to consultation on the Government’s digital strategy
• Trusteeship in small charities: Practical tips and advice
• Keeping it in proportion: Impact measurement for small charities
• Stories and numbers: Collecting the right impact data
• Measuring your campaigning impact: An introduction
• Result! What good impact reporting looks like
• NPC annual report and financial statements 2015
• Support after trauma: Assessing the impact of Imara, a child sexual abuse (CSA) support programme in Nottingham
• That awkward age: Children, well-being and charities
• Tech for common good: The case for a collective approach to digital transformation in the social sector
• Charities and the Chancellor: What the 2015 Spending Review means for the voluntary sector
• Developing an effective strategy: An introduction for trustees
• Focusing on impact: What do trustees need to know?
• The Chancellor’s choice: Preparing the charity sector for the Spending Review
• Measuring the well-being of young people with Special Educational Needs
• Investing for impact: Practical tools, lessons, and results
• The art of philanthropy: Making the most of your giving to the arts
• New funding sources: An introduction for trustees
• Transforming Rehabilitation: The voluntary sector perspective
• NPC’s response to PACAC inquiry into fundraising
• Understanding statistical significance
• Protecting your beneficiaries, protecting your organisation
• Building a movement: Review of the Inspiring Impact programme
• Raising the bar: NPC’s response to BSC’s transparency consultation
• Justice Data Lab speech
• Under the microscope: Data, charities and working with offenders
• Systems change: A guide to what it is and how to do it
• Insights on innovation: Lessons for the not-for-profit sector
• Better later life: recommendations on the work on the Centre for Better Ageing
• Letter to the reappointed Charities Minister
• Times of change: Briefing on public sector commissioning
• The Best Medicine? The importance of relationships for health and wellbeing
• Decision time: Will the voluntary sector embrace the age of opportunity?
• Show and tell: Charities, polling & evidence of doing good
• Reforming the relationship: Guidance for charities and procurement teams on the Public Contracts Regulations
• Analysis of CCG contracts data
• JET in Northern Ireland
• Happy relations? Ensuring effective partnerships between trustees and senior management
• NPC’S MANIFESTO 2015 | A vision for change
• NPC’s response to the Social Value Act review
• Having their say: What the public likes and dislikes about charities
• Is giving and doing enough to make charity moral?
• Financial oversight: What trustees need to know about finances and accounts
• Economic analysis: What is it good for?
• Charities, voters & trust: A closer look at our polling data
• Questions of faith
• Theory of change for funders: Planning to make a difference
• Age of opportunity: Putting the ageing society of tomorrow on the agenda of the voluntary sector today
• Growing pains: Getting past the complexities of scaling social impact
• Measuring impact and investing in what works in early action
• Non-grant finance and the heritage sector
• Creating your theory of change: NPC’s practical guide
• Supporting good health: The role of the charity sector
• Matter of trust: What the public thinks of charities
• 10 innovations in global philanthropy
• Smart money: Understanding the impact of social investment
• Impact Measurement Working Group: Measuring Impact
• Financial Capability Outcome Frameworks
• Building on potential: NPC’s response to the Labour Party consultation with the third sector
• Campaigning for social change: The role of trustees
• Closing in on change: Measuring the effectiveness of your campaign
• J.P. Morgan Philanthropy Impact Report 2014
• Impact in the heritage sector
• Charities, transparency and doing good—consultation response
• Federated charities: A briefing paper for charities, their trustees and funders
• Education Committee enquiry into sex education in UK schools
• The future of shared measurement: A guide to assessing individual sector readiness
• Failing the public? A provocation paper
• Understanding the role StreetChance can play in reducing youth crime and anti-social behaviour
• Lessons and opportunities: Perspectives from providers of social impact bonds
• Fundraising perspectives: Donor segmentation & Money for Good UK
• How to spend a penny
• Opportunities for alignment: Arts and cultural organisations and public sector commissioning
• Building your measurement framework: NPC’s four pillar approach
• Review of frameworks, tools and data sources for Talent Match
• How do we drive productivity and innovation in the charity sector?
• Measure what you treasure Well-being and young people, how it can be measured and what the data tells us
• Needs of emergency service personnel and their families
• Mind the gap: what the public thinks about charities
• Letter to Jeremy Wright, Parliamentary Under-Secretary
• Back to basics: A seminar for charity trustees
• Impact, power and social change
• Know your donors: The Money for Good UK donor segmentation tool
• Making mergers work: the role for charity trustees
• The JET Pack: a guide to using the Journey to Employment framework
• Public Administration Select Committee inquiry on charity chief executive pay
• Keeping account: A guide to charity financial analysis
• Funding impact: Impact measurement practices among funders in the UK
• The sector at its best
• In sight: A review of the visual impairment sector
• Creating a ‘Data Lab’
• The power of data: Is the charity sector ready to plug in?
• Fundraising: What trustees need to know
• Through the gate: A collection of articles on the criminal justice sector
• DWP commissioning strategy 2013
• Corporate Responsibility: call for views
• A journey to greater impact: Six charities that learned to measure better
• Beyond beans: food banks in the UK
• Trusteeship in a small charity
• Rebuilding the relationship between affordable housing and philanthropy
• Donor Q&A: Helping donors make the most of their giving
• Best to invest? A funders’ guide to social investment
• Allia’s Future for Children Bond: Lessons learned
• Who will love me, when I’m 64?
• Getting ready for effective partnerships
• My philanthropy: A collection of interviews with high-profile givers
• J.P. Morgan Philanthropy Impact Report 2013
• Managing and planning for risk
• The Journey to EmploymenT (JET) framework
• Investment readiness in the UK
• A funder journey: Scaling up the Stone Family Foundation
• Brain tumour research: Funding flows
• Money for Good UK
• Blueprint for shared measurement
• Transforming rehabilitation: consultation response from NPC
• Mapping outcomes for social investment
• Outcomes map: Conservation of the natural environment and climate change
• Theory of change: The beginning of making a difference
• Governance in the new commissioning landscape
• Collaborating for impact
• Outcomes map: Local area and getting around
• Outcomes map: Crime and public safety
• Outcomes map: Arts and culture
• Outcomes map: Finance and legal matters
• Outcomes map: Politics, influence and participation
• Outcomes map: Personal and social well-being
• Outcomes map: Mental health
• Outcomes map: Substance use and addiction
• Outcomes map: Employment and training
• Outcomes map: Education and learning
• Outcomes map: Housing and essential needs
• Outcomes map: Physical health
• Unlocking offending data: How access to offending data could help charities improve outcomes for offenders
• The morality of charity
• Understanding social needs in Westminster
• Making an impact: Impact measurement among charities and social enterprises in the UK
• What price an ordinary life? The financial costs and benefits of supporting disabled children and their families
• Read on: Literacy skills of young people
• A long way to go: Young refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
• Full cost recovery: Can your organisation survive without it?
• HIV/AIDS in Africa: A brief overview of global context
• Out of the shadows: HIV/AIDS in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
• Lean on me: Mentoring for young people at risk
• Going global: A review of international development funding by UK trusts and foundations
• Misspent youth: The costs of truancy and exclusion
• Proving your worth to Whitehall
• Home truths: Adult refugees and asylum seekers, a guide for donors and funders
• The code of good governance: Putting the code into practice
• Social investment: An introduction for trustees
• Should trustees be paid?
• Ready to get on board? An introduction to trusteeship
• More trustees than staff? Governing a very small charity
• Valuing short lives: children with terminal conditions, a guide for donors and funders
• Grey matters: Growing older in deprived areas
• The hidden assassin: Cancer in the UK, a guide for donors and grant-makers
• Side by side: Young people in divided communities
• Local action changing lives: Community organisations tacking poverty and social exclusion
• Caring about dying: Palliative care and support for the terminally ill
• Making sense of SEN
• Rhetoric to action: HIV/AIDS in South Africa, a guide for donors and grant-makers
• Just the ticket
• Charity begins at home: Domestic violence, a guide for donors and grant-makers
• Ordinary lives: Disabled children and their families, a guide for donors and funders
• School’s out? Truancy and exclusion, a guide for donors and funders
• What next? The role for philanthropy in careers education and guidance for young people
• Advice needed: Philanthropy amongst ultra high net worth individuals and family offices in Europe
• Philanthropic lives: The unique experiences of eight UK philanthropists
• Standing Together Against Domestic Violence
• Don’t mind me: Adults with mental health problems, a guide for donors and funders
• On your marks: Young people in education, a guide for donors and funders
• Are social enterprises more resilient in times of limited resources?
• Striking a chord: Using music to change lives
• Turning the tables Scotland
• The benefits of trusteeship
• Funder network: Evaluating the pilot knowledge-sharing network
• Trial and error: Children in young people in trouble with the law
• The little blue book: NPC’s guide to analysing charities, for charities and funders
• The business of philanthropy: Building the philanthropy advice market
• Manifesto for social impact
• Well-informed: Charities and commissioners on results reporting
• Count me in: Improving numeracy in England
• SROI position paper
• Scaling up for the Big Society
• New facilities, new funding: A proposed financing model from Scope
• Trusteeship 2010: An update for charity trustees
• Not seen and not heard: Child abuse, a guide for donors and funders
• A life less ordinary: People with autism, a guide for donors and funders
• Trading for the future: A five-year review of the work of the Execution Charitable Trust
• Green philanthropy: Funding charity solutions to environmental problems
• After the bell: Out of school hours activities for children and young people
• Philanthropists without borders: Supporting charities in developing countries
• Hard knock life: Violence against women, a guide for donors and funders
• When the going gets tough: Charities’ experiences of public service commissioning
• When I’m 65: Ageing in 21st century Britain
• Lost property: Tackling homelessness in the UK
• Short changed: Financial exclusion, a guide for donors and funders
• Valuing potential: An SROI analysis on Columba 1400
• Turning the tables England: Putting English charities in control of reporting
• More advice needed: The role of wealth advisors in offering philanthropy services to high-net-worth clients
• Talking about results
• Heads up: Mental health of children and young people, a guide for funders
• Critical masses: Social campaigning, a guide for donors and funders
• Granting success: Lessons from funders and charities
• Breaking the cycle: Charities working with people in prison and on release
• How are you getting on? Charities and funders on communicating results
• Board matters: A review of charity trusteeship in the UK
• The principles of good impact reporting: For charities and social enterprises
• What place for mergers between charities?
• Achieving more together: Foundations and new philanthropists
• Out of trouble: Families with complex problems, a guide for funders
• Everyday cares: Daily centres in Italy and the UK
• Feelings count: Measuring children’s subjective well-being for charities and funders
• Job well done: Employment and mental health problems, a guide for funders
• Starting strong: Early childhood development in India, a guide for funders and charities
• Giving in India: A guide for funders and charities
• Getting back on track: Helping young people not in education, employment or training in England
• Rights of passage: Supporting disabled young people through the transition to adulthood
• Inspiring impact: Working together for a bigger impact in the UK social sector
• Measuring together: Impact measurement in the NEETs sector
• Impact networks: Charities working together to improve outcomes
• Ten ways to boost giving
• Foundations for knowledge: Sharing knowledge to increase impact, a guide for charitable funders
• Helping grantees focus on impact: How funders provide monitoring and evaluation support
• Teenage kicks: The value of sport in tackling youth crime
• Community organisations: A guide to effectiveness
• Understanding the demand and supply of social finance
• Improving prisoners’ family ties
• Impact measurement in youth justice
• Stories from the boardroom
• The value of charity analysis: How reviewing your organisation can help you achieve more
• Early interventions: An economic approach to charitable giving
• Inspiring local philanthropy: Making a difference in local communities
• Reviewing Allia’s charitable bonds
• Principles into practice: How charities and social enterprises communicate impact
• Unlocking value: The economic benefit of arts in the criminal justice sector
• Corporate giving: NPC’s practical guide for corporate funders
• Best to borrow? A charity guide to social investment
• SROI for funders
• Preparing for cuts
• Talking to trustees
• Family philanthropy: Rewards and challenges
• Changing lives: A report on the autism voluntary sector
• Evaluation of the Mayor’s Fund
• Prevention and early intervention: Scoping study for the Big Lottery Fund

Events and Training

• Survey design in the charity sector
• Virtual roundtable on the charity sector and the forthcoming unemployment surge
• What role for charities in ‘Starmerism’?
• NPC Ignites

Blog

• The next stage of State of the Sector 2020: Has Covid-19 further overstretched charities?
• What’s holding back digital innovation in the charity sector?
• What have we learnt from the Covid-19 volunteering boom?
• Using a learning culture to build back better
• Getting charities up the (conservative) policy agenda
• Innovations, opportunities and ambition at NPC Ignites 2020
• Understanding your data: One way to build back better?
• A new way to rebuild post-covid
• Building a giving strategy and giving you a run for your money
• Why climate change is a risk to all our missions
• How can funders rebalance power during the Covid-19 crisis?
• #BuildBackBetter: Why social and environmental charities must work together
• Has the government ‘bailed out’ the charity sector?
• Behind the figures: What has been the impact of the coronavirus crisis on larger charities?
• Creating safe online spaces for young people
• How will social distancing change charity evaluation?
• Is the future unrestricted? Charity funding post Covid-19
• Learning lessons about measurement and evaluation from Covid-19
• Evaluating and learning during Covid-19
• How philanthropists can support environment charities
• Ten tips for facilitating online workshops
• In search of a standard grant application
• Can legacy income be brought forward?
• Digital services: How to connect in a time of crisis
• How NPC is adapting
• How to improve diversity and inclusion on trustee boards
• How does the government view charities’ role in recovery?
• How to adapt your strategy approach for times of change
• How to involve users despite social distancing
• What help is there for charities transitioning to digital?
• How philanthropists can support treatment and recovery charities
• The charity sector in a post-coronavirus world
• A shift in strategy: How can charities recover and build a better post-covid world?
• The future of charity
• How philanthropists can work together
• The lockdown exit strategy is crucial
• How philanthropists can respond to the urgent needs of people seeking asylum
• A message from NPC’s CEO, Dan Corry
• Covid-19 means systems thinking is no longer optional
• How philanthropists can help maternity services adapt
• What should charity trustees be thinking about?
• A joint letter to philanthropists
• How ‘Response Funds’ in the U.S. are confronting Covid-19
• Indigo Trust pledge £2.5million in immediate response to coronavirus
• Why government and philanthropists must come together for charities now
• How can the charity sector adapt to coronavirus?
• NPC awarded Fulfilling Lives Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, Research and Evaluation Partner contract
• Supporting charities and funders by being a critical friend
• Will the Budget 2020 spell the ‘end of austerity’ for the social sector?
• Three things to think about when asking sensitive survey questions
• Identify, prevent and predict: Using data to stop global trafficking
• Five questions your trustees should ask about place
• Is impact investing just ‘cuddly capitalism’?
• Charities keep us healthy
• Barriers to systems change: What we’re hearing from the sector
• State of the Sector 2020: Why insights and understanding are vital at this critical time for the charity sector
• How much should charities measure?
• Back to basics? Campaigning in a Tory majority Parliament
• Build on the social aspect of towns
• Stronger foundations: Empathy makes you stronger
• Should I build an app? 4 things your charity should consider first
• Social prescribing: working to get it right
• What happens to policy after Brexit?
• Increasing the impact of education research: Translating How Knowledge Works into policy and practice
• Should disaster relief money fund core costs?
• Data protection day: A time for celebration and reflection
• Can we end homelessness by 2030?
• An agenda for impact in 2020
• NPC Labs: Why we’re embracing open working at NPC
• Regular evaluation makes a winner on charity governance
• Ending homelessness: how collaboration can drive change
• Connections between homelessness and the criminal justice system
• Collaborating to change the criminal justice system – the role of charities in thought leadership
• How to plan effective co-design
• What role do charities have in the process of democracy?
• Four tips to write a good Theory of Change
• What makes a winner on charity governance?
• Auditing the impact practice of ‘sustainable’ investments
• A magical thing called ‘impact measurement’
• For Business, purpose is hot: But will it lead anywhere? 
• Digital transformation & the social sector
• The conspicuous absence of the social sector (in this election’s manifestos)
• The long view on the state of the sector
• What role can the social sector play in tackling the homelessness crisis?
• Polarisation: Why Brexit and a hung Parliament need a different campaigning style
• Shared measurement: Not a magic bullet…yet
• State of the Sector 2020
• Putting the humans first in tech for good
• Public-private partnerships: Ending homelessness through strategic collaboration
• Charities must collaborate or fail
• Big words, big numbers, and big ideas
• What can UK charities learn about place based work from the international humanitarian sector?
• How to do a basic theory of change
• One week ’till NPC Ignites 2019!
• Lessons from the Connect Fund: Building a better social investment market
• How we can do better for the sector
• Believing in better: The social sector and Brexit
• How to use data to drive change
• Transforming young people’s experience of Shakespeare
• Shared measurement: Tackling evaluation together
• Three places to start changing power dynamics in grant making
• The case for a Civil Society Improvement agency
• Should insourcing be the default, and what might it mean for charities?
• Nothing is settled
• Bold partnerships drive youth engagement in arts and culture
• Systems change: 4 lessons I’ve learnt
• NPC’s Summer reads 2019
• How to harness the data revolution for social good
• Three asks for the new government
• Charity tax commission
• Pink boats and mirrors: What are we learning about systems change?
• What role can the social sector play in tackling youth crime?
• Shifting power, changing lives
• My best life
• Keeping children safe online – Why funders must step up
• Learning from the frontline
• The importance of people and place in creating effective lasting social change in communities
• Can technology make us less lonely?
• NPC Ignites 2019: Impact for people
• Labour’s Civil Society Strategy
• Who’s next?
• Attracting, recruiting and retaining the best talent
• Celebrating good governance
• Why it’s never too late for a Change Framework, even at 100
• What the private sector can offer the charity sector and how funders can help it to do more
• Trustees and risk taking
• Three ways to wield power well
• Should you fund a charities’ mental health app?
• How do charities work with prisons in 2019?
• Troubled Families is not the Holy Grail
• Strength in numbers: Co-development of the Youth Investment Fund’s shared evaluation framework
• How is civil society in the UK coping with Brexit?
• What are charities and funders going to do about Brexit?
• Power dynamics in grant making
• NPC Ignites: People, Impact, Purpose
• Where are we on health?
• Walking the Talk: Putting workplace equality, diversity and inclusion into practice
• Putting the people into NPC: Our new strategy
• Deciding where to draw the line: Defining arts and culture
• Learning to involve stakeholders in your charity’s work
• The Ballad of Ronnie (Cohen)
• Help us make theory of change even more useful
• How charities are influencing change in prisons: What we’ve found so far
• Ten ways to make your charity genuinely digital  
• Three lessons to help charities increase their impact
• 2019: The year ahead for NPC
• What can 360Giving data tell us about homelessness funding?
• DCMS appoints NPC to lead evaluation and learning for Building Connections Fund
• Looking back on 2018
• What’s going on with funders and the criminal justice system?
• Let’s hear it for a bit of (positive) disruption
• What works in arts and culture outreach? 
• Our pledge on place and the future of the social sector
• Moving mental health beyond hashtags
• Treating homelessness as a systemic problem
• NPC welcomes new Minister for Sport and Civil Society, Mims Davies
• What impact data should trustees be using in decision making?
• Measuring the multiplicity of impact
• Exciting to witness how grantmakers are showing leadership
• Charities in prisons: Relationships, incentives, and access
• Should charities collaborate or merge to maximise their potential?
• Audio: How can charities harness new power dynamics?
• 2018 Budget reaction from NPC CEO Dan Corry
• NPC announce new Chair Elect: Vaughan Lindsay
• Peppa Pig & place shaping projects
• How to understand and use social sector data
• What are the barriers to learning from evaluation?
• Why we need to do user involvement right
• Mental Health in the UK: From Awareness to Action?
• Let’s have more collaboration and less merger
• Eat your data, it’s good for you!
• Evaluating Friends Provident Foundation’s ‘Building Resilient Economies’ Programme
• A new chapter for Inspiring Impact
• Highlights of Ignites
• Whose data is it anyway?
• A product or a journey? Our approach to consultancy for charities and funders
• Welcome to our new (more user-friendly) website
• Are we failing to focus on disadvantaged places?
• Building a better sense of community
• Potential difficulties registering EU migrants
• When (not) to merge a charity
• We need to talk about brexit
• 3 ways to really tackle homelessness
• NPC’s Summer Reads 2018
• How are charities tackling homelessness?
• NHS & VCS at 70: NHS charities—towards an understanding of impact
• NHS & VCS at 70: Allies in the struggle for the nation’s health
• Where now for the National Citizens Service?
• Doing ‘diversity’ right
• NHS & VCS at 70: How charities can drive change when the NHS is under financial pressure
• #NPCIgnites2018: Meeting the challenge of change
• NHS & VCS at 70: Can charity models help reduce health inequality?
• Diversity in the voluntary sector: we’re only just getting started
• Our long-term vision for the voluntary sector in criminal justice
• #NPCIgnites 2018: Inspiring the social sector
• What’s the chance your impact-investment has an impact?
• Reforming charitable tax reliefs
• Five years of justice data labs
• Submission to the civil society strategy
• Mental health: awareness for all?
• Start, collaborate, and listen.
• What is changed by collaboration in a place?
• What we learned: Investigating the ‘impact’ in impact investment
• The future of civil society
• Readiness or resilience?
• Capturing the impact in impact investment
• ‘Trust me, I’m a charity…’
• Let’s talk mission and merger
• Some problems with place
• Unsettling funding—The Transition Advice Fund
• Should you trust a charity with your data?
• What role for mergers in federated charities?
• The past and potential of ‘place’
• 4 insights from working with ‘experts by experience’
• Do we need more impactful corporate-charity partnerships?
• How to make monitoring, evaluation, and learning work for complex change
• Campaigning for justice reform in 2018
• Embracing the process: bringing theory of change and systems change together
• Built with grit (not the snow kind): Co-designed tools to support your impact management
• International women’s day—two asks from the charity sector
• Let’s embrace uncertainty to tackle systemic problems
• How can we up-skill charities to gain insights from data?
• With contracting in crisis, is there promise in a place-based approach?
• Embracing place-based collaboration: Lessons from Somerset
• Introducing a joint evaluation programme for the youth sector
• Why do we need diversity?
• ‘Talking about merging isn’t itself a risk’
• Men-only fundraiser: Another trust battle for the sector
• Late, lukewarm and bland?
• To 2018 and beyond
• Brexit will impact charities’ missions as well as their money
• There’s more than one way to merge a charity: Part 2
• There’s more than one way to merge a charity: Part 1
• ‘Poverty porn’ or no, let’s welcome prompts to think differently
• Innovative or invasive? Charities, data and digital campaigning
• Long read: Reflections of an accidental data campaigner
• Towards a new relationship with the state
• The 2017 budget at a glance
• Pre-budget briefing: Winter is here
• Good lives, good health: how the voluntary sector helps to keep people well
• How funders can unlock good charity governance
• Funders can set a powerful precedent by involving service users
• GDPR: It’s not just about fundraising
• How the voluntary sector can make better use of evidence
• What does ‘impact measurement’ really mean?
• Sensing a change: apps for the future
• Stop quoting Latin in your board meetings
• Are you sitting uncomfortably?
• Funders and mental health: Progress made, progress still needed
• A time for radicalism
• Giving the voluntary sector some space to think
• Five types of data for assessing your work: An explainer
• Are we missing the bigger picture?
• 15 years of NPC: What I’ve learned
• Long read: Charities’ prison access problem and the promise of digital
• Where next for the Health Data Lab?
• How do non-health charities help reduce health inequalities?
• Funding the fight against loneliness in older people
• Is grant-making fit for the digital future?
• Mike Adamson: What the Red Cross learned at Grenfell Tower
• 15 years of NPC: How it all began
• What’s next for the State of the Sector?
• Getting to grips with proportionate evaluation
• Post-Peterborough, let’s keep debating the value of SIBs
• How to use your data to drive decisions
• Campaigning for change: In it for the long haul
• Long read: Towards a tipping point for impact investment
• Yes we can: Wisdom from the sector’s boldest thinkers
• The future of measurement and evaluation
• Happy birthday to us! NPC turns 15
• What can charities learn from the Taylor Review on employment?
• Does the Commission on the Donor Experience promote donor-centric or donor-led fundraising?
• Rebuilding the relationship with the public: are charities making the grade?
• Passion and evidence go hand in hand
• Queen’s Speech 2017: Heads down, there’s work to be done
• Learning how to move with change
• Impact management: New kid on the block
• GE2017 shows us to keep expecting the unexpected
• Let’s get together: Navigating the risks of collaboration
• What does it take for charities to harness the power of data?
• How can philanthropy support children in care?
• Using SIBs to solve problems we already know how to fix
• Charities: take charge
• Making sense of systems change: 3 things I’ve learned
• We need funders to support their charities’ impact practice
• Tunnel vision: How a Brexit-dominated Election will stifle broader debate
• Long read: Theories of change are here to stay
• Pushing the UK’s giving onwards and upwards
• Campaigning coalitions: How to unlock effective activism
• #NPCIgnites 2017: Helping the sector connect, challenge and change
• How can you tell if your campaign is shifting the dial?
• Snap election 2017: What does it mean for the sector?
• Post-Brexit Britain needs a strong civil society
• Health: Out of the headlines but still on our minds
• Foundation boards must ask: Are we being ambitious enough?
• Looking on the bright side of Brexit
• The value of support for community organisations
• Charities and tech companies: Natural bedfellows?
• Health Data Lab: An initiative whose time has come
• How to make a strategy for impact
• What’s in the box? Insights on the 2017 spring budget
• Last Spring Budget: Hope springs eternal for charities?
• Mental health: In the headlines and beyond
• Campaigning in an era of major political shifts
• How to close a charity
• A more nimble, networked approach can help solve the sector’s problems
• Designing digitally: Start with the need, not the technology
• The Homelessness Reduction Bill shows what charities can achieve together
• Rethinking international aid: Could cash be part of the solution?
• Should trustees be expected to donate to the charities they serve?
• Britain’s unsung national treasure: Trustees
• The NHS faces tough times. Here’s how charities can help.
• Charities must stay out of politics? No way.
• Britain’s prisons and the role of charities
• Charity sector news: A post-holidays catch-up
• Looking ahead to 2017: A new year and a new milestone
• 2016 catch-up: Our year at a glance
• What’s faith got to do with it?
• Partners in crime?
• Education, enterprise, evidence (and the Eighteenth Century?)
• So how diverse is your charity’s board?
• Recover from Black Friday with Giving Tuesday
• Bridging the gap between charities and their users
• Where does the Autumn Statement leave the charity sector?
• What you need to know about the Impact Management Programme
• Uncertainty prevails as the 2016 Autumn Statement approaches
• Trump reminds us of the power of voice
• Troubled evaluations
• Getting started with impact: A trustee’s view
• Learning lessons from NPC’s Well-being Measure
• 5 ways data can improve your grant-making
• Taking stock of NPC’s Well-being Measure
• Data, data everywhere
• The public’s changing expectations of charities
• Igniting bold action in the charity sector
• A foothold on the uphill struggle towards measuring impact
• A view from the 2016 party conferences
• Collaboration—friend or foe?
• So… what actually makes a ‘good’ charity?
• Grammar schools and the sound of silence
• Learning from other sectors for better impact measurement
• Collaborating for a cause
• With great power comes great responsibility
• When two become one: Mergers—an insider’s view
• Challenging the rules, changing the game
• A new political year brings a new chance for charities
• Rebalancing the relationship between grant-makers and grantees
• 4Children’s demise: Why we need to know what happened
• Pulling together for better governance
• Power corrupts, but not in the way you think
• Everything in moderation—including impact measurement
• Systems change: More than just a shiny new thing
• Three ways to improve your impact practice
• A Universal Basic Income: What would it mean for charities?
• Some ifs and buts around Social Impact Bonds
• Putting data on Damian Green’s to-do list
• Where are we at with Social Impact Bonds?
• Making sense of payment by results
• Finding a way forward for charities and local government
• Gotta catch it all! What data can do for funders
• Putting people first, not problems
• Integrating gender into your evaluation
• The joy and pain of using data
• More changes in the criminal justice sector
• Take more risks to give your charity a sporting chance
• Thinking ahead: What does the future hold for charities?
• Seven great ways to make the most of your data
• The age of opportunity is still within our grasp
• Brexit and the need for big thinking
• The refugee funding gap
• How can charities better support fathers?
• How to ensure your charity is harnessing people power
• Has the behaviour of large charities damaged the whole sector?
• Developing theories of change for entire sectors
• Six reasons to sign up to #NPCIgnites
• Giving a voice to those in care
• Five ways to get your charity fit for devolution
• Roundup: Charities and the #EUref
• Rethinking the frontline: Why infrastructure support matters
• No funder is an island: What collaboration means for donors
• If you don’t know, ask: How to decide what to fund
• Freeing-up education data: An irresistible proposition
• A reason to celebrate
• What can charities glean from the Queen’s Speech?
• Military mental health: Challenges and opportunities for impact
• So you want to build an app…
• How can funders create impact?
• Does the size of a charity actually matter?
• Social capital: Charities and the London Mayor
• School rules: Charities and the changing education sector
• Choosing the right evidence level for your impact evaluation
• Keeping faith in data
• Charity Commission clampdown could lead to better philanthropy
• An ask too far? The ethics of fundraising from your beneficiaries
• How can charities get out of the dog house?
• Investing in the environment: Could money grow on trees?
• Donors could help keep local libraries open
• Charities are leading in feeding Britain’s hungry
• Should charities do deals with the commercial sector?
• A is for academy
• Making the most of the media
• Can philanthropy curb the Zika crisis?
• Be bold
• Tampons, taxes and the Treasury
• What does the 2016 Budget mean for the sector?
• Muddy waters: Evidence and the domestic violence sector
• Charities could help transform the health sector
• Joining the dots between people and services
• Contribution vs. attribution in impact investing and beyond
• Love is all you need (…well, it helps)
• You give, you get
• Over to EU?
• US foundations raise the bar for good philanthropy
• When a tweet spells retreat
• Cruz vs Trump: The tortoise and the hair
• Strength in numbers: The power of shared measurement
• A love letter to the charity sector
• Gold dust—Part 2: Measuring the value of unrestricted funding
• A clause too far?
• Gold dust—Part 1: Why the sector needs more unrestricted funding
• ‘An echo chamber of worry’: How charities are responding to the Lobbying Act
• Can philanthropy cure the NHS?
• 6 interesting reads from the world of funding
• An ode to qualitative research
• A farewell to Henry Worsley
• Digital disruption for good
• Evidence gives us the power to change
• 7 great resources for small charities
• Do charities need a ‘Gran Test’ for fundraising?
• Celebrity deaths and charity donations: It’s personal
• Justice Data Lab goes from strength to strength
• Our teenage girls aren’t bouncing back
• How did the voluntary sector see in the new year?
• Getting good at governance
• Reflecting on charities’ annus horribilis
• NPC’s 12 blogs of Christmas 2015
• COP21: The tip of the iceberg for climate campaigners
• ‘Tis the season: Charities and religious freedom
• Charities are a key piece in the devolution puzzle
• School’s out! But charities can keep on learning
• The charity sector’s digital future
• How to avoid hornet stings
• Cut it out—the arts are still at risk
• Charities and funders must communicate about impact measurement
• Devolution is an opportunity for charities—embrace it!
• The sector needs a strong, robust Charity Commission
• #GivingTuesday: More money isn’t the (only) answer
• The 2015 Spending Review: What charities need to know
• No country for young people
• To welcome refugees, we must welcome change
• Mitzvah day highlights what faith-based charities have to offer
• World Toilet Day 2015: Not to be sniffed at
• Why the sector needs to engage with devolution
• Are you impact ready?
• Small charities: The unsung heroes of Remembrance
• A game-changer for impact investing
• Getting back on your feet when things go wrong
• The loss of Eaves
• Good governance for all, charities big and small
• What can trustees learn from Kids Company?
• A kick up the arts for philanthropy
• What will tax credit cuts mean for charities?
• Efficiency: What is it and how do we get it?
• Party conferences, fringes, and the charity sector
• Impact or no impact? It’s a little more complicated than that…
• Maximum glamour, minimum impact
• Into the open: Charities and dyspraxia
• NPC Ignites: An antidote to defensive thinking
• Good giving in mental health
• Shifting ground for charities?
• What lies ahead for impact measurement?
• Beyond grant-making: sharing learning
• A ‘Northern Powerhouse’ for philanthropy
• We need to talk about collaboration
• Making the most of campaigning
• We’re off to party conferences—here’s why
• What’s duckweed got to do with it?
• Should all charities be riding the crowdfunding wave?
• Deeds not words: Charities step up to the refugee crisis
• Back to school: 9 steps to being a trusty trustee
• Winning the Corbyn way
• What are charities doing about the rent crisis?
• Are you data rich but analytically poor?
• What is the role of faith in the charity sector?
• The joys and sorrows of league tables
• Keeping data safe
• Charities must give social change a sporting chance
• Who knows best?
• Remembering Denise Marshall
• A new focus on outcomes?
• Forget the emotional appeals—not all donations are equal
• We all want to know how well our kids are doing, don’t we?
• Why charities should collect less impact data
• Can a fresh approach to budgeting cure charities’ fundraising woes?
• Are new charities like the Amy Winehouse Foundation necessary?
• 6 reasons you should attend #NPCIgnites
• Does the emperor have no clothes? Standards for social impact measurement
• Empathy and digital transformation
• Innovating from the inside out: Insights from ActionAid
• Goals for good: SDGs for the UK charity sector
• Let’s get it on (the curriculum)
• Volunteering and the elderly exodus
• CC3—The bare essentials?
• The 2015 budget: surprises and questions for the voluntary sector
• What can a philanthropist learn from Greece?
• Impact measurement in social investment: BSC’s role
• Work to improve educational outcomes? We need your views!
• Reflections on systems change
• What makes a ‘good’ charity?
• Can we regulate for trust in charities?
• 6 ways to get started with social investment
• Making an exit
• A shock to the system
• The upsides of spending down
• Summer solstice: the gift of time
• Justice Data Lab now a permanent service!
• What’s the point of conferences?
• Yes they can! Impact measurement in small charities
• Insights on innovation: The three ‘I’s
• 9% loss on a social investment portfolio—good or bad?
• What can the FA Cup teach charities about backing a winner?
• 15 million strong: among the volunteers
• Commissioning: here to stay
• Fundraising risks: the long and the short of it
• The Queen’s Speech: Charities had better be up for the challenge
• Are trusts and foundations up to the job?
• Traps on the evaluation journey for commissioners & providers
• How better evidence can produce better philanthropy
• Charities tackling the summertime blues
• 7 practical tools for improving your outcomes and impact
• Anything but the same old
• Changing the theme tune #GE2015
• The best big idea (since the last one)
• Charities’ vital role in encouraging people to vote
• Effective philanthropy gets a boost
• Dour no more
• Education, education, education
• Top-down vs bottom-up
• The future of data
• The best medicine
• What can Uber teach philanthropists?
• Thinking through faith: more research needed
• Charities in health: Rules of engagement
• Leading impact: Not just about spreading the love
• A world of water innovation
• Part 2: The power of digital to transform the sector
• Practising what I preach
• Charities & evaluation—who pays the price?
• Successful failure & the tyranny of shame
• Data 4 Good
• Looks like a charity, but does it quack like one?
• Charities are useful, just watch House of Cards
• Managing change: a unique challenge for charities
• To Northern Ireland and beyond!
• Happy relations: Pay attention to the things we love
• Can charities save the NHS?
• Crisis in leadership?
• Reflecting on NPC’s impact
• ‘Beneficiaries first’: NPC’s 2015 manifesto
• Engaging young donors in an ageing society
• Ambition and focus: the Gates Letter 2015
• Strategy: embrace it and reap the rewards
• Part 1: The power of digital to transform the sector
• Chugging: more an irritant than a turnoff
• Losing the battle, winning the war
• 5 reasons to sign up today for Leading Impact 2015
• The human side of big data
• In a muddle about reserves?
• NPC’s 5 for 2015
• 2014: our year in blogs
• Economic analysis: What is it good for?
• It’s time to consider the role of religious charities
• Charities, voters & trust
• When it comes to impact, leadership is the key
• Our thinking on theory of change: for funders
• Our thinking on theory of change: for charities
• Our work with funds like Cheyne Capital
• Money from your mail: choosing charity Christmas cards
• Some goodies for charities in the Autumn Statement. But the worst isn’t over yet
• #GivingTuesday: tips on how to give wisely & well
• Maintaining mo-mentum
• How will an ageing workforce affect the voluntary sector?
• Band Aid 30 may make more noise than difference
• Our journey towards impact measurement: from the MS Society
• Changing attitudes to charity?
• Systems change is all around us
• Charities need to engage diverse volunteer communities
• Happy World Toilet Day 2014!
• Catching the spend down wave: from the ONE Foundation
• Baby on board: young trusteeship
• A vision with a plan can change the world
• Being a trustee should not be a comfortable job #TrusteesWeek
• Why charity boards need to adapt #TrusteesWeek
• Moving past the complexities of scale
• Patterns of volunteering throughout people’s lives
• Trustees’ Week 2014
• Medical research: a dead end is never a failure
• Why the NHS needs charities
• Innovations in philanthropy: 100% impact investing
• The not so sacred cow
• This won’t hurt a bit
• Who’s important to you?
• How philanthropists can help battle the Ebola outbreak
• Innovations in philanthropy: collaboration
• Interview with charity experts: what is strategy?
• Basic questions an impact report should answer
• Unanswered questions
• Innovations in philanthropy: open data
• Don’t all rush at once
• Giving up?
• Party conference season is almost over, what did we learn?
• Standards of evidence: helpful or a hindrance?
• Cutting-edge philanthropy
• Tough times, tough choices
• Where to next?
• Are we there yet?
• Learning to listen
• Happy Older People’s Day!
• Smart money
• The road to learning
• How was it for me?
• Digging into healthcare data
• Aspirations and reality—how the voluntary sector can achieve even more
• The time is now
• Collaborating to improve financial capability in the UK
• The G7 Taskforce has delivered: what next?
• A yes vote in Scotland
• Campaigning: let’s start a new debate
• Ice bucket or not
• Is hashtag activism killing grassroots politics?
• Charities and our social care crisis
• Speaking truth to power
• New Act raises concerns
• How can we make evidence easier?
• Can horses help prevent reoffending?
• Creating a high-energy culture
• Stephen Lloyd was a great friend to NPC
• Well-being in Northern Ireland
• It’s ok to be a copycat
• Exams & employment
• Fame won’t save the world
• Grasping the ageing nettle
• A rose by any other name?
• Time to reshuffle your philanthropy?
• The voluntary sector and public services—from delivery to demand?
• Show me the money: giving grants to individuals
• Creating a business case for social responsibility
• Say hello, wave goodbye
• For every winner…
• Part 2: Money (that’s what I want)
• Impact scrutineers
• Part 3: Steering towards a brighter future
• Part 2: London bucks the trend
• Part 1: Cog’s own county
• London calling!
• Finding that magic touch
• Part 1: Money (that’s what I want)
• Campaigning in a tougher environment
• Beyond the boundaries: impact through cricket
• We’ve come a long way
• Parenting tips for Sting
• How do philanthropists hand over their foundations?
• Rock vs a hard place
• How to become an impact driven organisation
• A new appreciation of the power of sport
• How to spend a penny in WASH
• An ideal volunteer
• In theory…the launch of the Retail Charity Bond
• Be flexible, be bold
• Communicating your value internally and externally
• Financial leadership: more than just numbers
• Boxing and charities: pound for pound
• How useful is the Justice Data Lab?
• Knock, knock…evidence wanted
• From football to philanthropy
• The riddle of reoffending rates
• We need to talk
• Sharing data, increasing knowledge
• Federal reservations?
• The voluntary sector: more than just outsourcing fodder
• A+ (but unhappy)
• Will UKIP hurt charities?
• A manifesto for the charity sector
• What NCVO’s new report says, and what it doesn’t
• The journey to employment continues
• The evolution of evaluation
• Lessons from Game of Thrones
• Measurement camp
• Story-centred learning
• Upgrade or become obsolete?
• Letter from America
• An ageing society in practice
• Spring clean your organisation
• Big money
• How do companies create social value?
• Embrace the Age of Opportunity
• Reader, he married him
• After Atos … who?
• Should charities run public services?
• Improve your impact measurement in 3 (easy) steps
• The invisible dad
• What’s wrong with fundraising?
• Measuring for safer water
• #nomakeupselfie
• Collaboration: a matter of heart and head
• Social investment and Alan Turing star in the budget
• Six months out: charities and the #indyref
• Philanthropy for the best and brightest
• Inspiring Impact in Wales
• Who cares about impact?
• Symptoms and causes
• Learning from international relations
• Getting ready to respond
• Data that speaks for itself: part 2
• Data that speaks for itself: part 1
• Beauty and brains
• The fundraising crisis
• Using government data for good
• Beyond typing pools and tea trollies
• Social investment—the pros and cons
• A tool for (self) analysis
• Cancer vs. cancer
• Partners not supplicants
• Stand up and be counted
• Do we need a paradigm shift in the charity sector?
• How fundraising became cost free
• Choosing the right tools for the job
• Debunking Gates
• Taking on the leadership challenge
• Off with the kid gloves
• Evidence athletics
• Good governance in practice
• The time has come, the walrus said
• Philanthropy – at home in housing?
• Inspiring Impact looks forward
• All in proportion: reflections on impact
• An American survey: government funding trends
• The best idea in ageing
• Getting from outputs to outcomes – efficiently
• Not an Amazing start to the year
• Theory of change—it’s for funders too!
• 5 reasons to be cheerful
• After the Social Fund…
• The uses and abuses of diagnosis
• 12 blogs of Christmas
• Making your donation count this Christmas
• Proving and improving what you do
• Merger ahead?
• Donor diagnosis
• Wikipedia for non-profits
• Should Comic Relief embrace ethical investing?
• The journey to sharing
• BLURRED LINES vs CHARITIES WITH ATTITUDE
• The Charity Commission: down but not out – yet
• Account-Ability: Facing your fears
• Giving Tuesday: A cause for celebration
• Charities and health: In it to win it
• Brave new world
• Everyone’s a winner
• Education or parenting?
• What does slavery mean to you?
• The Archers in sight?
• A society for all ages
• Happy World Toilet day!
• Do gift horses own mirrors?
• Location, location, location
• Heating or eating?
• It’s all about evidence!
• Out of sight
• CHARITY GOVERNANCE: ARE YOU REPRESENTED?
• A special breed of impact
• Older people can be provoking
• Is ‘I do’ all it takes?
• Eye opening impact
• How to create a win-win campaign
• Helping communities tick
• Individually strong, collectively weak
• 7 reflections on measuring impact
• Free evaluation support for criminal justice charities
• To grow or not to grow
• Let your inner data geek free
• Improving the giving climate
• #impactconference
• Good things come in small packages
• A slapped wrist for charities
• What about measurement?
• Don’t forget the charities
• Football and charities: sharing tactics
• Beyond beans
• Avoiding an unhappy union
• Too much stick: not enough carrot
• Charities at party conferences: worth it?
• Curing costs: early action could save billions
• Impact information: Supply and demand
• Talking about impact
• The manner of strategy
• Arts organisations: we need you!
• You need a strategy for that
• Welfare reform: the new postcode lottery
• The Syrian refugee crisis
• Spotlight on Safe Ground
• Tax breaks for social investment
• Public perception vs. charity reality
• GCSE results impact on young people’s aspirations
• Nick Hurd’s not wrong about grit
• It’s all about content
• What are you paying for?
• More than just grades
• Recycling the investment
• Our ageing society
• Social investment: The future of the charity sector?
• Laying the foundations
• Begin the Beguine
• How much are charity CEOs worth?
• The scandal of empty homes
• Social investment: investor readiness?
• Learning matters
• Five facts and a partnership approach to tackling youth unemployment
• Who are you calling “lost” bruv?
• It’s good to talk mental health
• Beating the cuts
• Breaking the giving taboo
• Money for Good: What’s next?
• The beauty of benchmarking
• Collaboration across the pond
• Trustees mix it up
• What is the point?
• Who will love me, when I’m 64?
• Lost in the crowd
• The Spending Review pickle
• Data doesn’t byte
• Small charities: Shouting out
• Doing more with less
• Double whammy for impact
• Bills, skills and chills
• Evidence: in the eye of the beholder?
• Data analysis: capability crisis?
• Sweets and other tools
• The power of Beyoncé
• Is public benefit a can of worms?
• Two months in, big questions for both sides
• Helping the hard to reach
• Mainstreaming mental health
• Realising the potential of ‘what works’
• On ‘the doorstep of care’
• The fundraising trustee
• How well do you know your donors?
• It’s simpler than you think
• Give & gain
• Learning to share, sharing to learn
• Relying on relationships
• The fundraising dilemma
• A new theory of justice?
• In regulators we trust
• Impact in Scotland
• From measuring impact to measuring progress
• Measuring large
• The Social Fund: A disappearing act
• Who’s talking about the Social Fund?
• Working hard – and working well
• Charities must focus on shared identity as well as individuality
• What does the Giving List say to you?
• What does open mean?
• Running in both directions
• Small charities: a year on
• Why we need NCVO and Serco’s commissioning code
• More help not less
• Climbing the league
• Justify your spending
• Back to the drawing board
• Money for Good: The value of practical research
• Moving the conversation about overheads on
• Welfare reform is here – now what?
• One giant leap forwards
• What is a ‘well-rounded’ education?
• What have the Quakers ever done for us?
• Dorothy Donor cares too
• Don’t underestimate what it takes to collaborate
• Gaming for good
• Reflections from a decade at NPC
• Engaged champion or ad hoc giver?
• What kind of donor are you?
• Campaigning for cancer research
• Stronger together
• What do donors really care about?
• Philanthropy’s one-stop shop
• Where did our public service ethos go?
• Understanding the links between well-being and progress at school
• Relationships as agents of change
• Shutting the gate before the horse has bolted
• Engineering more fun
• Crisis in spring
• Rehabilitating rehabilitation
• Housing – how bad can it get?
• Bonds away!
• Who cares if charities sink?
• Making social investment deliver
• Cheese or charity?
• The glow of giving: why do we give?
• The rise of ‘big data’
• Connecting with a cause
• In charities we trust
• Social Value Act: A worthy act of defiance
• Becoming better partners for the future
• Making the most of corporate giving
• Cooperation, not competition
• Volunteers and data collection
• Where collaboration starts
• Are campaigning charities losing their voice?
• The key to collaborative success
• Choose with care and be ready
• Question relentlessly and evaluate fearlessly
• Beyond that first tweet
• Get the outcomes right and the rest will fall into place
• Outcomes measurement is really about change
• Is the big society really dead?
• With benefits dwindling, who will look after the ‘undeserving’ poor?
• Risk-taking foundations fund gritty issues
• Small is beautiful too
• And another thing…
• NPC unlocks government data
• Prize publicity
• Top tips for giving effectively this Christmas
• Setting re-offending data free
• Passing go
• On the streets
• A commissioner’s outlook
• What is impact leadership?
• The value of measuring national well-being
• NPC supports the Guardian and Observer’s Christmas appeal
• Talking social investment
• Level playing field
• The deciding time
• Personality is what sets charities apart
• When a ‘force majeure’ changes what success is
• Ich bin ein sozialer Wirkungsanalyst
• What does the new NHS mean for charities?
• What needs funding in your area?
• A reoffending revolution?
• Evidence through rose-tinted glasses
• Payment by results makes data a closed shop
• How social enterprises bounce back
• Building blocks of cross sector partnerships
• Why impact is more important than ever
• Ask NPC: How do I stop funding a charity?
• When my time is up, please put me on the Death Pathway
• Reporting what really matters
• Tough messages for trustees
• Project Oracle: transparency and good ideas
• Stone Hard Learning
• Stone Prize Winner
• Green Philanthropy: an error in communications?
• How much evidence is enough?
• Getting into impact
• A question of scale
• Solving the riddle of good funding
• The changing face of charity shops
• Are we being uncharitable?
• Impact measurement vs. calculated risk
• Is Boston Consulting Group’s estimate of social investment demand right?
• Why rebranding isn’t about eye candy
• Maude makes an impact
• The evidence for impact
• Transforming the charity sector
• Tackling the tricky question of attributing impact
• Courage, theory and creativity
• Comparing apples and oranges?
• A giving generation gap?
• Ganging up on the problem
• Prevention or cure?
• Getting ready for social investment
• £20bn ‘opportunity’ for private NHS providers – so where do charities stand?
• Impact in social investment: a billion pound question
• The love triangle between charities, councils and Government
• Is public sector commissioning broken?
• Why does 21st century Britain need a campaign on poverty?
• Looking ahead: NPC’s autumn events
• The trouble with trusteeship
• Perplexed about philanthropy
• Good grades = happy faces?
• Impact measurement—not just about the measuring
• Why it’s up to grant-makers to make the charity sector a good place for new ideas
• The impact of measurement on your work
• Taking a first step to opening up your data – the Open Data Challenge for charities
• Carrying the Olympic Torch for Philanthropy
• Help for Heroes and the MoD: How close is too close for charities and government?
• We’re never too old to learn
• How do you give to charity?
• Business Connectors
• A pinch of useful transparency is worth a tonne of data dumping
• Social investment: making the UK a centre of excellence
• One small step for the British Library, one giant leap for the social sector?
• Legacy 2013>
• Prize-winning philanthropy
• Will Payment by Results work?
• Should trustees be paid?
• The Olympic legacy: Using sport to change lives
• Ask NPC: How should I involve my children in our family’s giving?
• The joy of giving
• Mutual back slapping
• Tapping into generation ‘why bother’
• Inspiring Impact goes live
• Talking about why we’re here
• Why you should get to know your local authority commissioner better
• Does philanthropy need to go back to school?
• From the rainforest to the desert: A NICE for social policy
• A ‘Nice’ for social policy: Could it work?
• The glaring inequality of mental health
• Getting back to basics
• The power of thinking positive
• More or less for ‘troubled’ families?
• Choosing the right approach to evaluation
• Riots this summer?
• Achieving more for less
• Transition and relationships: a commissioner’s perspective
• Building partnerships in local commissioning
• Commissioning, cuts and charities: What’s really going on
• When the going gets tough: Charities’ experiences of public sector commissioning
• Is the work programme working for charities?
• Ask NPC: Where can I get good information about which charity to support?
• NEETs charities must work together to prove their worth
• Supporting the academic spring
• What will the Giving Summit give to the sector?
• The ideology of impact
• Minding the gaps
• Normal service will not be resumed
• Should we do a SROI?
• A rising tide of giving
• Small is beautiful
• Answering the ‘so what’ question
• Philanthropists aren’t tax dodgers
• Hey, it’s ok to celebrate creativity in charities
• What is your charity selling?
• A funder’s journey
• Big Society Capital opens for business
• Why do you give to charity?
• Giving Insights: Better giving, Radiohead’s radios and stopping riots
• Shared measurement for the well-being of young people – a report from our Well-being Measure drinks reception
• ‘I blame the Daily Mail for the riots’ says charity chief
• Ask NPC: How do I get started with my giving?
• Missed the debate about how charities are coping with cuts?
• Funding in a cold climate
• ‘There is no normal we will ever go back to’: creatively responding to public sector cuts
• Budget 2012: Raising the giving question
• Budget 2012: what the Chancellor didn’t say
• Sticking to your (funding) principles
• We need your views!
• Five reasons to get involved with impact reporting
• Small charities face big changes
• A problem shared
• Digging down into donor motivation
• The battle for government contracts
• Safeguarding charities’ future
• Why giving is good—for all of us
• Britain doesn’t count
• From research to reality
• Nice work if you can get it
• The dangers of Payment by Results
• Misspent youth?
• A revolution in measurement? Using the internet to make high quality evaluation accessible
• Facilitating charity love-ins
• Picking out the signal from the noise
• Have your say on government commissioning
• The importance of mental health problems are too often lost in translation
• Job well done: Employment and mental health problems
• Impact measurement: A how-to guide
• Six steps to building the social investment market
• Early intervention, mentors and spin doctors: Learning from last summer’s riots
• One hundred days at NPC
• What could your charity do with the cost of a royal yacht?
• Blue Monday doesn’t add up
• Social policy kitemark: A Nice idea?
• 2012: A year like no other for charities
• 2011: SIAA, Social investment and measuring happiness
• Christmas appeals, statistics and stories
• There should be no I in Impact
• What happens now the money has run out – the challenge for trusts and foundations in the new economy
• Social Impact Analysts Association (SIAA) launches today
• Helping young people look to the future
• Has this impact thing gone too far?
• Social investment: Not just for Christmas
• No riots for Glasgow: How one charity is tackling gangs
• Knowing the difference
• How to win coverage with your charity case studies
• Are trusts and foundations giving their all?
• Charity Commission guidelines on social investment clear up confusion
• Being a trustee is far from dull…
• Trusteeship: The trials and tribulations of governing a small charity
• Trusteeship: Getting younger people involved
• Trusteeship: Mentoring and advising staff
• Trusteeship: Being an ambassador for your charity
• Trusteeship: What’s it all about?
• Evaluating with purpose
• Social Impact Analysts Association to launch in London in December
• Is a number worth a thousand pictures?
• Introducing NPC’s Well-being Measure!
• The price of everything and the value of nothing?
• Debut at the Emirates
• Impact reporting: We need your views!
• Making a difference in the places that matter to you
• Working together for a bigger impact
• Helping all charities benefit from social investment
• An emphasis on preventative services leaves the rest of the UK behind – NPC’s comment on the Scottish budget
• The challenges of calculating the cost of social problems
• Barclays Wealth/NPC research: an economic approach to allocating charitable funding
• Growing your organisation in tough times
• Charities have a duty to use the data out there
• Motivating sustainable change
• NPC welcomes its new Chief Executive
• The NSPCC’s strategy for a bigger impact
• Transparency back in fashion?
• Open data in action: a 10 minute proof of how it can benefit charities
• Need versus effectiveness: sometimes the former takes precedence in giving
• ‘Any Qualified Provider’ for services to the NHS could be interesting for charities
• I predict a riot (followed by a targeted family intervention strategy)
• The golden age of ageing
• Feeling the heat of public sector cuts
• How to turn anecdote into data
• Charity analysis/organisational reviews—why bother?
• From fundraising to resource-raising
• Response to the public services white paper: will open public services lead to a future of private/third sector partnerships?
• Would your charity take money from News of the World?
• Early intervention report – promising, but patience needed
• MPs say that NPC’s Well-being Measure provides a ‘template’ for evaluation of youth services
• Talking about working together
• The small things we could do to get more out of payroll giving
• Are charities artists or scientists?
• Stories from the boardroom
• Is the government sending mixed messages on data?
• How to write an impact report
• What role for business in the Big Society?
• Testing the Big Society
• Getting the right evidence
• A bad idea from the Charity Commission
• Why the Prime Minister’s support for measuring well-being is good for charities
• UK giving still has a long way to go
• Penny wise pound foolish
• Big Society Bank touches down
• How effective do charities need to be?
• Measuring together in youth justice
• Lord Young would be proud … but so would Lord Sugar
• Fundraising is part of the solution, but there’s more to boosting giving
• A measurement framework for infrastructure organisations
• What is the point of soup runs?
• Measuring together
• Taking action on happiness requires measuring what matters
• Our first glimpse of the Big Society Bank
• Effective emergency assistance? A guide for disaster relief donations
• Feel-good philanthropy
• The value of community organisations
• Why violence against women charities may be vulnerable
• Does the “Comic Relief Promise” undermine confidence in charities?
• Charities fit for royalty
• Standing out from the crowd
• Getting started with cost-benefit analysis
• Helping grantees focus on impact
• A sporting chance
• A Tale from Tanzania: It was the best of funding, it was the worst of funding…
• So what do you do?
• Getting the word out
• My daughter and the Big Society
• Britain’s giving deficit
• Meaningful measurement
• The Big Society is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for charities
• Having the ambition to close down
• Spending your jackpot wisely
• Visible Giving – are award shows the answer?
• Caring and sharing
• Who’s to blame for charity cuts?
• Evidence is the best argument you can make
• A boost for impact-based giving
• The Big Society: no cheque enclosed
• How trustees can help out in hard times
• To collaborate or compete?
• Boris and bank bonuses
• Beware the quick fix
• Why don’t charities sing their own praises?
• Cuts threaten even the best charities
• There is nothing wrong with charities campaigning (or taking out newspaper ads)
• Some of my best friends are bankers…
• What does your wedding list say about you?
• £100m transition fund for charities: tight deadline!
• How investment banks could promote more giving
• Anonymous giving or strategic giving?
• Funding the future
• Counting myself out
• The giving needs of wealthy families
• Changing lives: A report on the autism voluntary sector
• A local perspective on the spending cuts
• Communicating research
• Nudging the head and the heart towards more effective giving
• A proper thankyou can go a long way
• Are you achieving what you think?
• What Teach First can teach us
• Should we encourage donors to be less modest about their charitable giving?
• Britain’s giving problems
• Why government measuring well-being is good for charities
• Talking to trustees
• Creative solutions to social problems
• Why is it so hard for us to take the plunge?
• Small society, big ideas
• Like a drunk man looking for his keys
• Creative campaigning
• Why running an effective charity is like flying a fighter plane
• Innovation shouldn’t stop because of the cuts
• Show charities (the route to) the money
• Growing your charity in the face of cuts
• What’s in store for the charity sector?: Digging into the details of the Spending Review
• Warning to charities providing ‘discretionary’ services – NPC’s reaction to the Spending Review
• Celebrate World Statistics Day!
• Keep it simple
• Thoughts on the Tory party conference
• NPC’s magazine now exclusively online
• Add some value
• Big brands heart the Big Society
• Should government step in to save charities that fail?
• The controversy of morality
• Should you fund an SROI?
• The networking effect
• The bonfire of the quangos – what it means for the charity sector
• Why don’t charities talk about results?
• Move over philanthrocapitalists, the new ‘austerity philanthropists’ are here
• NPC and the Guardian team up to find effective charities
• ‘Fundraising, charity shops and chuggers’ at the Guardian
• How cheap is free?
• The Social Impact Bond: A win-win-win solution
• How do we develop the social investment market?
• Getting our collective heads around the ‘Big Society’
• MS Society’s use of evidence more than a little careless
• How charities can use their social skills
• A Dragon’s Den for Social Entrepreneurs?
• The world in 2050
• A bit more honesty in fundraising might be refreshing
• Mappiness: How happy are you?
• Proving your worth to Whitehall
• Donors join the 10% club
• Do we need a charity version of Kiva?
• I say billionaire, you say millionaire….
• Intervening early for the Big Society
• Will you pass Aristotle’s generosity test?
• You’re a trustee? Really?
• NPC’s YouTube channel launch!
• Candid communication
• Funding the Big Society—a new role for philanthropists?
• Is saving a donkey morally wrong?
• What the Ancient Greeks can teach philanthropists
• Why aren’t more young people trustees?
• Transparency and the informed donor
• Limiting admin costs – should grant-makers be forced to tighten their belts?
• The charity in front is a Toyota
• How a National Citizen Service can prove its worth
• What should you be giving to charity?
• Opening up data
• NHS White Paper—all change for health charities
• Are ‘arbitrary’ cuts charities’ fault?
• Unlock prison data
• What do you call a group of analysts?
• Are charities being realistic about the cuts?
• A rehabilitation revolution
• Politicians: occasionally they say what they mean
• The real measurement debate
• What do trustees need to know about impact?
• How not to cut red tape for charities
• How the UK government should improve philanthropy, Part 1
• Boris, Ken and the Big Society
• What does the Budget mean for philanthropy?
• Ten questions to ask your board
• Donate to this charity award winner
• Measure once, cut twice
• Charity analysis—why don’t more people analyse charities?
• What does impact mean for fundraisers?
• Do donors care about impact? Why we need six answers.
• Happy birthday blog!
• And the winners are…
• Where was the BP chairman?
• The global ‘Big Society’
• NPC’s magazine for charities, funders, advisors and government
• Do enough donors care?
• A to-do list for Nick Hurd, Part 5, scaling up charities
• Bigging up charities for the Big Society
• Getting R&D right and why charities should keep on taking risks
• The cuts are coming… What do they mean for charities?
• How can charities demonstrate their ‘value added’ in welfare-to-work?
• Basic mistake from Nick Hurd’s colleague
• A to-do list for Nick Hurd, Part 4, Charities Data Act
• A to-do list for Nick Hurd, Part 3, Impact Fund
• A to-do list for Nick Hurd, Part 2, Shared measurement
• A to-do list for Nick Hurd, Part 1
• Out of proportion?
• Welcome, PHINEO—Working on Wirkung, and Building Bridges
• Is ‘personalisation’ a good idea or a recipe for trouble?
• Well-being, not happiness
• The race for online giving
• What charities can learn from an airport toilet
• What’s your return?
• Impact measurement: where the world is
• A fundraising revolution
• I’m counting on charities
• NCVO proves that information is beautiful
• Taking the long view
• Admitting failure can be a good thing (and not just because of schadenfreude)
• Do you know where you have greatest impact?
• Resilience can wait
• Why the government needs to trust charities with its data
• A lesson from an investment bank
• Comparing the charity meerkat*
• How I’d analyse a charity in two hours: Part 2
• Happy now?
• Spot The little blue book…
• Making a real difference
• The first Social Impact Bond
• How I’d analyse a charity in two hours
• What philanthropy advisors can learn from the rise of the fork and the iPod
• How transparent is NPC’s annual report?
• What impact would an impact fund have?
• Keeping up appearances
• A manifesto for charitable impact
• Attention funders!: Pay up on time
• Crisis talks: homeless charities set to merge
• How transparency helps foundations advance their missions
• Off the shelf, on the agenda
• Blog post over at Society Guardian
• Another boring newsletter?
• Charity Clues
• 250% return?! Who’s going to believe that?
• Add your voice to the debate
• I admit it, I’m guilty of wasting charitable funds
• ‘Kids don’t count’ – what’s to be done?
• ‘Flog young offenders, put them in stocks and pelt them with oranges.’
• Are charity CEOs too powerful?
• Latest news on Intelligent Giving
• The school effect – can schools prevent a charity from being effective?
• Dementia costs the UK £23bn, but research funding is scarce
• Why charity CEOs are more important than the bosses of companies
• The little blue book – NPC welcomes your comments
• Support Barnardo’s, an effective charity
• Why has social auditing never caught on?
• The Philanthrocapitalist Manifesto
• Social capital markets vs civil society?
• Not erring in our quest for better analysis
• Haiti
• The challenges of growth in the non-profit world
• The poetry of charity
• The dangers of measurement
• Putting your money where your mouth is
• Why giving to charity is just like giving Christmas presents
• Getting back on track
• Do charities have a right to Gift Aid?
• The 2009 NPC Haiku Competition
• Preaching to the unconverted
• Counting feelings
• Stats vs stories
• Fending off criticism about how money is spent
• Dramatic statistics about charitable giving
• Rights of passage
• Large donations to charities fall a lot
• Public benefit = maximising value for beneficaries
• The Ambassador for Philanthropy on challenges facing the charity sector
• New fundraising approach from Crisis
• Charities helping young people get back on track
• Sizing up the downturn
• No exit: what cuts mean for trusts and foundations
• Foundations changing their ways
• NPC in India
• What the Tories think about charities
• Protecting children: have we got our priorities straight?
• Better research wanted
• Foundations in the US get nudging
• Big charities should do more
• Public misconceptions and charities
• Giving through foundations: an opportunity for impact
• Launch of new advisory service for HNW donors in the US
• Judging a charity on what they actually achieve
• Scrutiny and analysis: there is no way back
• Risks in the charity sector: Learning lessons from Unicef Germany
• When success doesn’t breed success
• Shutting down: the greatest measure of success?
• Can you put a number on a child’s happiness?
• Could grant-makers borrow their way through the recession?
• Lost in transition
• Confidence in charities
• An Association of Nonprofit Analysts?
• Hello and welcome!