Research / Statistics

Back in the summer we announced our “What Makes A Great Fundraiser” survey.

No, not a philosophical question in these straitened times.

Charities Aid Foundation have put together an interactive infographic showing where registered charities in England and Wales work around the world.

At the Female Futures of Philanthropy event at CASS Business School in London last Monday, a panel of philanthropy specialists, academics and heads of charities from Canada, Australia & the UK told a

Nearly seven years ago I wrote a slightly tongue-in-cheek article for Fundraising magazine about the qualities required to be a great fundraiser.

What is the value of someone sharing a link on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites? Here's an infographic that gives some more information around this useful but sometimes elusive metric.

Now that the snow has finally gone, and some of us are still counting the cost of Christmas in both £s and lbs, as well as getting over the shock of being intimately reacquainted with the inside of th

The latest newsletter from DocuTicker (published by Free Pint Limited) includes a link to Diaspora Philanthropy: Private Giving and Public Policy is a new report from the Migration Policy Institute.

Open data, aggregated information, and mashups.

We've just completed a significant research project and it served as a timely reminder of the pitfalls of reading too much into research findings. I write a guest blog for Ask Charity, the specialist PR and communications service for charities, and in doing some background research was surprised to see just how much research is shoe-horned into communications or used to create eye-catching 'headlines'.