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Economics lessons for charities
NPC’s Eibhlín Ní Ógáin talks to five experts about applying economic principles to the charity sector—and discovers that charities have a lot to learn.
Ian Hislop is a British satirist, comedian, writer, broadcaster and editor of the magazine Private Eye. He presented Ian’s Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders, recently broadcast on BBC2. Here he tells NPC about how a train journey across India inspired him to help children living on the streets.
PG Wodehouse is widely acknowledged as the greatest comic writer of the twentieth century. Less widely known is his insight into the perils of restricted funding for charities. Yet Wodehouse has a lesson about how donors should approach their giving.
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The importance of mental health problems are too often lost in translation
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Valuing healthcare for the homeless
Esther Paterson explores how collecting data has helped the London Pathway to improve homeless people’s lives.
‘No one has wanted to help our kind before. You have saved me, thank you so much.’
London 2012: Inspiring the next generation?
The London 2012 Olympics promises to inspire a generation of young people. But are the Games leaving the right legacy behind?
What can social finance learn from microfinance?
NPC’s Benedict Rickey turns the spotlight on social finance, asking what lessons we can learn from the troubles in the world of microfinance.
Julia Neuberger recommends...
Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE is a rabbi and Liberal Democrat peer. She tells NPC’s Clare Yeowart about her involvement with charities.
Talking results: Six tips for good impact reporting
Impact reporting is a buzzword among charity and donor circles. But how does it help charities and what does good impact reporting look like? NPC shares six top tips for communicating results.
Don’t blame the government for the UK’s poor philanthropy
NPC’s Plum Lomax argues that we shouldn’t blame the government alone for the UK’s poor record on philanthropy. Others have a role to play too in changing the culture of giving…
Learning from community organisations
Charities have a lot to learn from community organisations. By recognising people’s strengths rather than labelling them according to their problems, community organisations have the potential to help local people to help themselves in some of the UK’s most disadvantaged communities.
Meet the expert: Mike Hudson, Compass Partnership
Mike Hudson is founder and director of Compass Partnership , a group of management consultants that gives advice to voluntary organisations and their funders on strategy development, performance management and effective governance. He tells us how his organisation has been bringing business thinking to the charity sector for the past 25 years.
Getting the measure of children’s well-being
How can we improve children’s
well-being in the UK? NPC has developed a tool to find out just how happy our children are, and to help charities work out how to make them even happier.
Who cares about social impact analysis?
This year, the Social Impact Analysts Association (SIAA) is being created to support and connect people who are involved in analysing the impact of charities. But is social impact analysis always worthwhile?