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Global Fundraising: How the World is Changing the Rules of Philanthropy

Global Fundraising: How the World is Changing the Rules of Philanthropy (The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series)
  • Authors: Penelope Cagney, Bernard Ross
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • Number of Pages: 394
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Published: 26th April 2013
  • Price: £42.50

A practical guide to the challenges and successes of global fundraising, written by an international team of highly respected philanthropy professionals and edited by two of the leading non–p

Charities Digest 2012

  • Publisher: Waterlow Professional Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 31st October 2011
  • Price: £39.00

Offers information on over 2,000 regional and national charities, as well as nearly 2,000 voluntary and independent organisations.

The State of Giving Research in Europe: Household Donations to Charitable Organizations in Twelve European Countries

The State of Giving Research in Europe: Household Donations to Charitable Organizations in Twelve European Countries
  • Publisher: Pallas Publications
  • Number of Pages: 76
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 23rd July 2009
  • Price: £9.95

The State of Giving Research in Europe provides an overview of current philanthropic research in Europe.

Dead Aid

Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
  • Author: Dambisa Moyo
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Number of Pages: 208
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 28th January 2010
  • Price: £9.99

Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary.

The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy

The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Number of Pages: 608
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Published: 1st April 2014
  • Price: £125.00

Philanthropy – the use of private funds for public benefit and social change – is undergoing a transformation, both in practice and as an emerging field of study.

Fundraising in Context

Fundraising in Context
  • Authors: O'Sullivan T, Mordaunt J, Issacs J
  • Publisher: The Open University
  • Number of Pages: 120
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 1st November 2010
  • Price: £24.95

The theme of this book is to set the work involved in fundraising and campaigning in context and aims to do this on a personal, organisational and ethical level, allowing you to start by diagnosing yo

Civil Society Almanac 2012

  • Authors: Karl Wilding, David Kane, Jenny Clarke, Peter Bass
  • Publisher: National Council for Voluntary Organisations
  • Number of Pages: 97
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 5th March 2012
  • Price: £125.00

The 11th edition of NCVO's Almanac presents trends, facts, figures and information from its research programme.

It Ain't What You Give, It's the Way That You Give It: Making Charitable Donations That Get Results

It Ain't What You Give, It's the Way That You Give It: Making Charitable Donations That Get Results
  • Author: Caroline Fiennes
  • Publisher: Giving Evidence
  • Number of Pages: 250
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 9th March 2012
  • Price: £16.01

Some charities achieve much more than others, and some donors are more helpful than others - some `help' actually hinders charities.

The Business of Giving: The Theory and Practice of Philanthropy, Grantmaking and Social Investment

The Business of Giving: The Theory and Practice of Philanthropy, Grantmaking and Social Investment (Cass Business Press)
  • Author: Dr Peter Grant
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Number of Pages: 280
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Published: 6th December 2011
  • Price: £26.00

Philanthropy today is big business; a worldwide phenomenon that seeks to bring about effective social change through the investment of philanthropic assets.

Why Rich People Give

Why Rich People Give
  • Author: Theresa Lloyd
  • Publisher: Association of Charitable Foundations
  • Number of Pages: 366
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Published: 1st June 2004
  • Price: £15.00

Philanthropy UK's Why Rich People Give is the result of the first major research into the attitudes of wealthy people in the UK to money - how they create it, keep it and spend it.

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