Baily's Hunting Directory www.bailyshuntingdirectory.com/directory is now available online @ £12 a year. I think that it is a bargain, and great for local/regional research on "great 'n' good".
News that Oxford academic Toby Ord has pledged to give away £1 million during his lifetime - and is encouraging others to pledge 10% of their income to charity - made the national media this week. If Ord had been a wealthy donor, it would still have been newsworthy, but the fact that he is a philosophy researcher on an ordinary salary makes the story all the more interesting. Fundraisers will wish that there were many more Toby Ords around. But of course there are….
I have just had a trial of “Phi”, a new product from Factary (www.factary.com). It is a database of donors and supporters (trustees, patrons, etc) which currently contains over 100,000 records.
I rarely read a newspaper during the week, so news alerts can be handy. The latest Business in the Community free newsletter mentions a report in The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk) on executive pay.
Last week’s Third Sector magazine mentioned the relaunch of the online charity community section of the website of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). Phew!
During 2009, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) will be reviewing the information supplied to it by charities and how the OSCR uses this information.
The FT and others are reporting some especially intersting news for prospect researchers. It would appear that banks are going to have to be more transparent about what they pay their top earners.
