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All for one and one for all - why should charities engage families?

Families are a valuable pool of support, but they are often neglected when charities are looking for potential supporters. Find out how and why your charity could benefit from engaging this valuable support group.

How can small charities fundraise in a world dominated by the big fish?

Individual giving is the largest source of fundraising income for charities. It is extremely important that small charities, who often have limited or non-existent budgets, can compete with larger ones for individual giving funds.

The art of attraction: why competition and nudging may help raise more money

This week's blog explores the psychology behind charitable giving, inspired by a recent BBC podcast.

Past Imperfect: How successful have charities been over the last few decades

Are we doing a good job? This is the single most important question a charity, or any other organisation, can ask itself.

Our new report gives an overview of how charities delivered their mission, changed society and assessed their effectiveness over the last few decades. We hope it will help you to think of issues such as:

A blueprint for restoring the sector's reputation

Read more about A blueprint for restoring the sector's reputation

The charity sector has had 12 months unlike any other it has ever seen. We have been under the spotlight in the eyes of the media, public and politicians more than ever before, and rarely for the right reasons. The response of the sector has been varied, and largely ineffective.

Ten things the charity sector needs to do to restore its reputation

1. Better fundraising regulation

We need better fundraising regulation. I have been writing about inadequacies of the current system since 2012. So the new regime of a stronger, better funded regulator with control over the Code of Practice is very welcome.

2. Trusteeship needs a revolution

Challenging Cuts - investigating the response of charities to front-line service cuts

Read more about Challenging Cuts - investigating the response of charities to front-line service cuts

Has the charity sector been doing enough in response to government funding cuts? Local authorities have been subjected to a high level of cuts in the last five years, with the Autumn 2015 spending review promising to go even further.

We interviewed charity professionals from a number of different sectors to produce this report, exploring how charities and communities have been responding to frontline service funding cuts, both from local and central gov

What we learnt listening to fundraisers discussing the Fundraising Review

On Tuesday 15^th December 2015, nfpSynergy hosted an open meeting on fundraising regulation, together with the Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy’s fundraising think tank Rogare (read their blog on the event here).

12 Free Reports of Christmas 2015

We would like to thank our clients and partners for inspiring us to keep researching the topical issues in the sector. As part of our Social Investment programme we regularly produce Free Reports and feed our finding back to the sector so any charity regardless its size or sector can find something useful. Here are the 12 popular reports this year.

Put a sock in it: Let’s focus less on who technically lobbies and more on who lobbies effectively

Fiona Wallace looks at the re-emerging ‘sock puppets’ narrative and why the issue of has been blown out of proportion.

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