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Cathy Pharoah
Cathy Pharoah is the co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy opened in October 2008, which is working on a number of research projects around charitable giving.
The Centre has highlighted the value of outsourcing for charitable institutions, the effect the economic downturn has had on charitable income, and the implications for the charity market.
Pharoah was director of research for the Charities Aid Foundation from 1995 until 2006, after which she went on to set up a new research company, Third Sector Prospect, in 2007
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed several million dollars to a healthcare private equity fund that plans to invest in health services for poor people in African communities.
Family foundations have increased their giving by more than a quarter over the past five years, significantly outpacing the progress of donations from companies or individuals, according to a new report.
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), has announced that its appeal for the East Africa Crisis, has so far raised the charity’s largest amount ever for a food crisis.
Donations to the UK’s top 500 fundraising charities fell by a real £70m last year, a fall of 1.1 per cent, according to latest research.
Some are up, some are down, some are staying put. The Charity Market Monitor 2011 finds that while events fundraising has flatlined, other income streams are either more or less profitable than before. Cathy Pharaoh discusses some of the top trends from 2009/2010.
Charities were told to focus on issues affecting women in the UK, just as they have begun to concentrate on investing in women in the developing world, at a meeting of fundraisers, academics and trust representatives yesterday.
Older consumers have more to give, and they give it. So why are charities worried about over-reliance on ageing donor bases? Cathy Pharoah says charities need to continue to focus on the ever-more-lucrative grey pound.
Neither recessions nor times of great, widespread prosperity have managed to alter the amount of household spending which gets allocated to charity.