In this week's blog, Simona Battipaglia looks at the state of the international development sector and public attitudes towards it, highlighting why this is a decisive time for international development charities.

Should charities deliver public services?
In this week's blog, Joe Saxton explores public perception of charities as public service providers, and discusses what Covid-19 has revealed about charities who also fulfil public service roles. (Spoiler: they are essential!)

In this week's blog, Max Roche looks at some potential methods of quantifying charity CEO earnings beyond our fixation with the number of zeros at the end of the salary.

This week's blog highlights the importance of making LGBT+ voices heard and the fact that this audience remains largely under-researched in the charity sector. It also analyses our LGBT+ research and what an ideal LGBT+ charity would look like.

This week's blog analyses the results from our fourth wave of research with the general public on the Coronavirus and charities. We analyse the change in public attitudes, including issues of concern, trust in sources of information and willingness to support charities.

Our latest donation trends data shows that the percentage of the public who are giving to charity is at the lowest level it has been in a decade.

In recent days and weeks, we have all been witness to a huge moment in the fight against racial inequality across the world. In the charity sector, questions are now being confronted as to how we better reflect the societies that we live and work in. Research carried out with the BAME community by nfpSynergy at the end of last year seeks to contribute to this discussion.

We reveal and unpack some of the key findings from our latest poll with the general public looking at attitudes towards Covid-19 and the charity sector. 

We surveyed 1,000 members of Britain's Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME)​ population to learn more about the ways this audience engages with charities. The blog takes a closer look at volunteering, fundraising and trust in institutions trends among the BAME population and compares those to some of the findings from our research with the general public done through our Charity Awareness Monitor (CAM). The full set of findings is linked in the blog.

This week's blog focuses on the results of our latest wave of research into the impact of Covid-19 on the charity sector. We highlight the changing public perceptions of the crisis as well as looking at the government and charity response, drawing out key conclusions about what this could mean for the sector.