A report on university endowment funds calls for tax breaks for graduates to help establish and increase endowment funds for UK universities.
The report "University Endowments" by the Sutton Trust points out that only five UK universities have endowments worth £100 million or more, compared to 207 universities in the USA.
Research by Henley Management College into fundraising expenditure has found that charities' administration costs are 5% of total expenditure and 5% of total income.
Interim results of the research by Adrian Sargeant are based on 182 responses from the 500 top charities by income.
Professor Robert Boyd will succeed Joanna Foster CBE as Chair of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales, with effect from November 2003.
Professor Body has been Principal of St. George's Hospital Medical School since 1996, Pro Vice- Chancellor for Medicine at the University of London from 2000, and was previously a Consultant Children's doctor for 30 years.
The Directory of Social Change has published "Marketing Strategy for Effective Fundraising" by Peter Maple.
This new addition to the fundraising series published by the Directory of Social Change challenges marketeers, and particularly those working in the voluntary sector to learn to be passionate about the causes they espouse and the fundraising activities they pursue.
The Directory of Social Change has published a new edition of one of the most popular guides to charity law.
"Charitable Status: A Practical Handbook" by Andrew Phillips, has been re-released to help charities comply with the myriad of laws
applying to them. It is aimed at trustees, charity workers, lawyers and accountants needing a working introduction to the subject.
Mike Lake, Director General of Help the Aged, has been appointed as a Trustee of the recently launched Air Ambulance Foundation.
Lake's charity interests include the interface between governance and management, the growing commercial nature of the sector and the role of charities in society.
The RSPB has redesigned its Web site to increase membership recruitment and revenue generation, using Tridion's content management solution.
Using Tridion, regional offices of the RSPB will be able to develop and post relevant content on the site, while the Web team at HQ will continue to retain overall control over structure, design and programming.
Newcastle upon Tyne based company Governance Works has announced its second annual conference designed specifically for board members and staff from the not for profit sector in the UK.
Participation in Governance is a two-day conference for board members and staff to explore ways to improve participation in governance.
