Site map
Pages
- Snapshots of the sector
- Organisations the TAF has funded
- Eligibility Criteria
- Home
- About NPC
- What we do
- Themes
- Examples of our work
- Resource Hub
- Speaking opportunities
- Past events
- Event terms and conditions
- Events and Training
- Contact us
- Blog
- Media contact
- Privacy and cookies policy
- Newsletter signup
- Terms of use
- Site map
Resources
- Youth Investment Fund: Learning and insight paper one
- Charities, young people and digital mental health services
- Building connections fund: Guidance on co-design and community spaces
- Building connections fund: Guidance on evaluation for grant-holders
- 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
- 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
- Creating a theory of change: An introduction for charities
- Beyond Bars: NPC’s criminal justice programme
- Creating a strategy in a time of change and upheaval
- Improving your impact practice: An introduction for charities
- What role can the social sector play in tackling youth crime?
- New frontiers: The social sector through Brexit (Manchester)
- Thinking big in your theory of change
- Power dynamics in grant-making: Building power
- Creating a theory of change: An introduction for charities
- NPC Ignites: People, Impact, Purpose.
- Building a measurement framework: An introduction for funders
Blog
- 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
- 3 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?
- 7 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
- 6 reasons to sign up to #NPCIgnites
- Giving a voice to those in care
- 5 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!
