Impact reporting: Answering the right questions
Tags: Impact reporting
Tris Lumley
Head of development, New Philanthropy Capital
Tris Lumley is head of development at New Philanthropy Capital where he is leading its ongoing work to refine the way it analyses charities and has written a number of reports.
He is a board member of the Charity Commission's SORP Committee, the ImpACT Coalition and the Alliance for Effective Social Investing.
Before joing NPC he worked at Deloitte, Scientific Generics and FreshMinds.
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New principles for good impact reporting are based on six key questions. Tris Lumley explains.
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Impact reporting consultation launches to enhance story-telling by charities
Tags: Communications | Impact reporting
New Philanthropy Capital, CFDG and Acevo have launched a universal set of principles for impact reporting and are looking for feedback from chief executives, finance directors, fundraisers and grantmakers.
The prediction that 2011 will be the year of the mobile looks more and more likely to bear fruit as three different organisations launch SMS and mobile giving services this week.
Charities must be prepared to be open not just about costs, but about what they have achieved, argues Tris Lumley.
A Times article last weekend that encouraged the public not to give money to face-to-face fundraisers based its story on two-year-old Intelligent Giving blog entries and significantly misrepresented a senior figure from New Philanthropy Capital, the organisation claims.
Charities should congratulate themselves on their contribution to the labour market. The sector that spawned the professional fundraiser could be ready to give birth to another new career: the impact analyst.
Don't blame donors for their obsession with admin costs while charities continue to use them to prove their effectiveness, says Tris Lumley.
Demonstrating outcomes rather than outputs can result in much more effective fundraising, finds Alex Blyth.
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