16 philanthropists join CRUK £100m fundraising board
Tags: Major donors
Celina Ribeiro
Editor, Fundraising magazine, Civil Society
Celina is the editor of Fundraising magazine and daily contributor to CivilSociety.co.uk. She has been at the publication since June 2008.
Previously Celina worked as a freelance feature writer for newspapers and magazines in Australia and the UK, working for publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the New Statesman. Celina was also a Ken and Yasuko Myer Fellow in 2004, which saw her intern at Manilla-based newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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Cancer Research UK has signed up 16 high-flying philanthropists to the development board to lead its £100m fundraising campaign for the Francis Crick Institute.
The WRVS, which mobilised women on the home front during World War II, has today dropped the reference to women in its name as it seeks to shed its female identity and reach a more masculine audience.
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact has called on the Department for International Development to review the way it selects and evaluates the civil society organisations it gives unrestricted funding to, in a report which made several criticisms of its £120m programme.
The National Lottery turned over just shy of £7bn last financial year, another record year for the operator Camelot.
While companies are quick to blame tough economic conditions on reduced giving, increased profits do not lead to increased charitable giving, nor to other kinds of charity support, according to new research.
Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 have announced a five-year partnership on the fundraising sub-brand Stand Up To Cancer, which in its inaugural year raised £8m centred around a telethon.
Analysis
Social security: How fundraisers are engaging with social investment
Tags: Social investment | Major donors
Social investment is something of a halfway house between fundraising and finance. Celina Ribeiro looks at how and why fundraisers are getting involved in this growing market.
While the corporate philanthropy world has moved on from the days of ‘chairman’s choice’, company staff are still not central to decisions around charity partnerships, according to a study into the perspectives of lower-ranking staff on company giving.
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