Does the current fundraising climate require new talent?
We have been doing a lot of thinking recently about how to attract talent into careers in fundraising and development, and how to best arm people with the tools they need to succeed in delivering real value back to charities and social enterprises. But how to attract talent in the first place? In order to [...]
Creativity and intelligence from artsfunding.ning?
It has been great to see the establishment of the online community – www.artsfunding.ning.com – that is acting as hub for information about funding cuts and also as a forum for arts Established by Marcus Romer, Artistic Director of the Pilot Theatre the website is a hub to enable the arts community to share information [...]
Four Square and Cause World – social media innovations for fundraising?
In the past 5 years Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook have revolutionised the way individuals interact. Companies now dedicate entire departments to utilising social media to interact with potential customers and more and more funding is looking at new ways of utilising online strategies. The charity sector has far from avoided this inevitable move [...]
Football – the impact on arts funding – what will it mean for London in 2012?
The Art Newspaper has recently published an article about the impact the World Cup in South Africa has made upon arts funding entitled Arts nil, World cup billions. It talks of a reduction in the South African National Arts Council’s budget from £2.5 million to £1.2 million for the 2010/11 financial year. As well as [...]
Will the Big Society bring new ideas to support scaling up?
We read the recent New Philanthropy Capital paper – Scaling up for the Big Society with interest. The paper is a guide for civil servants in assessing the merits of charitable projects suitable for scaling up under the new Big Society brief for engaging charities in the delivery of key services. The practice of service [...]
Philanthropist of the month – a more charitable outlook on the World Cup
This month the eyes of the world lie upon the very southern tip of Africa , upon a country whose history is fraught with woe and where millions of its people contend with the degradation of poverty and ill-health on a scale that defies belief. As the World Cup kicks off millions of eyes will [...]
Philanthropist of the month
Sir Alec Reed through the Reed Foundation has partnered with Arts and Business to contribute an initial fund of £500,000 to the ‘Big Arts Give’, a new challenge fund designed to act as a catalyst for helping cultural organisations increase income from on-line donations from Major Donors, Trusts & Foundations and Corporate Engagement. Reed is [...]
What do we mean by social enterprise?
In the past 10 years we have seen an explosion of new organisations branding themselves as social enterprises. Government figures estimate that there are 62,000 (social enterprises) in the UK, contributing over £24bn to the economy and employing approximately 800,000 people. With their importance growing, a crucial question to ask is what do we exactly [...]
The Third Sector needs First-Class People
Never in the history of modern Britain has the charitable sector been so important. We hear more and more about the emergence of social enterprises and new charities by the day (alongside the 168,000 charities that are already registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales). As Government talks about partnership with the charitable [...]
Can the Big Society learn from Obama?
Much has been made of David Cameron’s big idea, the ‘Big Society. After 13 years of alleged government interference and state control Cameron seeks to create an era in which each of us stands up and helps address society’s problems by focussing upon our own communities. We are told that the ‘Big Society’ will encourage [...]
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