As nfpSynergy clients who attended our March Insights event and heard the presentation that forms the basis of this editorial will be aware, one of the themes to emerge in recent waves of our research is that while charitable giving levels in 2012 remain volatile, the picture is not bleak.
This seminar looked at a range of issues around charitable giving including donor motivations. It considered why some people do not support charities, how everyone might be persuaded to give and how they might be persuaded to give more.
Resilience is a key quality for leaders and managers, not just in the social sector but in all sectors. Bhaggie Patel from the Clore Social Leadership Programme worked with Joe Saxton to interview 20 leaders from the social sector, including chief executives, executive directors, board chairs and assistant directors, for their experiences of resilience.
This report aims to raise the profile and importance of resilience for social sector leaders.
The death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, in October was followed by an outpouring of collective grief around the world and eulogizing of Jobs’ contribution to the fields of business, design and technology.
Steven Levy, in his Wired Magazine obituary, wrote “[Jobs] was the most celebrated person in technology and business on the planet. No one will take issue with the official Apple statement that The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
Like many organisations, nfpSynergy has grappled with how we use interns and volunteers as part of our workforce. Up until two years ago, our approach was relatively informal. If we stumbled across a suitable intern, we would get them into to work in a way that suited both them and us.
The Royal British Legion, RSA and Comic Relief are the top three UK-based charities with the largest “social media presence” - in terms of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube engagement - according to a major briefing out today.
Is your organisation a planned economy?
The economist Paul Seabright once mentioned travelling through London with a Russian bureaucrat who asked him ‘tell me, who is in charge of the supply of bread to the population of London?’ It’s a dazzling question – and the answer is, of course, no-one. Who, after all, could possibly calculate the needs of the city, and plan the delivery of your daily bread from seed to toaster?
People yet to write a will comprise a larger potential new legacy market for charities than those who have already written one currently without a