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Age UK and London Zoo on shortlist for £2m Google charity competition

22 May 2013 | Vibeka Mair

Google has shortlisted ten UK charities which stand the chance of winning £500,000 as part of its Global Impact Challenge.

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20 May 2013

Your CivilSociety rounds-up the most read stories from the previous week.

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Sector needs a 'data manifesto', says leadership review 2

Kirsty Weakley
17 May 2013

Tags: Digital fundraising | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software

The voluntary sector should create a “data manifesto” that identifies who holds data about the sector and enables the sharing of data, recommends Dame Mary Marsh’s review of leadership and skills in the social sector.

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Charity governance is stuck in the past, finds leadership review 7

Niki May Young
16 May 2013

Tags: Leadership and strategy | Human resources

While management in the charity sector has changed significantly in the past few decades, a reluctance to invest in governance has led to a stagnation of board structure and a lack of diversity, according to Dame Mary Marsh’s review of skills and leadership in the social sector.

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BIG to provide £15m for projects supporting digital skills

Kirsty Weakley
13 May 2013

Tags: Funding

The Big Lottery Fund has announced a £15m funding programme that will be developed in partnership with Go On UK to support community projects that build digital skills.

NGOs need to look more closely at expense claims from their staff, in particular from UK staff based overseas as expatriates, and from staff who travel from the UK to field offices and projects overseas.

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Bids open for those wanting to run the Do-it volunteering database

Niki May Young
8 May 2013

Tags: Websites | Volunteering

Bidders wishing to run the Do-it volunteering website now have until 8 July to submit their applications.

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IT institutes set for merger

Kirsty Weakley
7 May 2013

Tags: Mergers | IT strategy and management

Two IT membership charities have agreed to merge after the Institute for the Management of Information Systems’ members voted in favour of joining with the BCS the Chartered Institute for IT.

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Shortlist is unveiled for Charity Awards 2013

Tania Mason
7 May 2013

A campaign against the use of drones in Pakistan, the regeneration of a huge landfill site into a nature reserve, and a top-performing academy schools network are among 30 inspiring projects shortlisted in this year’s Charity Awards.

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Public won't cut charities slack on data protection issues, warns ICO

Kirsty Weakley
30 Apr 2013

Tags: Information security

People who report data protection issues to the Information Commissioner's Office do not make a distinction between commercial organisations and charities, warns David Evans, group manager at the ICO.

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