Category: Feeds
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Ørsted Celebrates £1 Million Milestone of "Skills Fund" As Winners Announced for Coastal Areas of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk
Since launching their community grant programme, Ørsted has awarded more than £1 million to specifically fund projects relating to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The East Coast “Skills Fund” forms part of the company’s £465,000 East Coast Community Fund 20-year annual commitment and is part of the community engagement programme for Ørsted’s Hornsea and…
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Blancco and The Turing Trust collaborate to provide thousands of devices for schools in Africa
Blancco’s erasure software enables the charity to ready donated devices to be shipped to African children, supporting the development of their digital skills, and promoting a circular economy AUSTIN and LONDON – September 7, 2022 – Blancco Technology Group (LON: BLTG), the industry standard in data erasure and mobile lifecycle solutions, has today announced it…
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Volunteering in the United Kingdom During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Who Started and Who Quit?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. I examine how volunteering dynamics changed in the United Kingdom during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic relying on data from the “Understanding Society” survey. Descriptive analyses and linear probability models yield three main findings: First, the share of volunteers (for all causes) dropped at least by…
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Announcing the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses
We’re extremely excited to be announcing the Change Our Mind Contest to encourage critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses that could lead to substantial improvements of our overall allocation of funds. For all the details, see this page. Cost-effectiveness is the single most important input in our decisions about what programs to recommend, and we believe…
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A Guide to the Canadian T3010 for Users of the U.S. Form 990
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research note introduces nonprofit researchers accustomed to the U.S. Form 990 to the Canadian data captured on the T3010 financial form that will soon be available to researchers on a broad scale. Similar to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)…
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Disciplinary Contributions to Nonprofit Studies: A 20-Year Empirical Mapping of Journals Publishing Nonprofit Research and Journal Citations by Nonprofit Scholars
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In celebration of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly’s 50th anniversary, we present a bibliometric analysis of nonprofit research published between 1999 and 2019, within and outside of three core nonprofit journals—NVSQ, NML, and Voluntas. We seek to understand which journals, across scientific domains and social science disciplines,…
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Transformation Through Rest: A Conversation with Olatunde Sobomehin
https://cep.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Olatunde-Clip-1.m4a The post Transformation Through Rest: A Conversation with Olatunde Sobomehin appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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Our UK supporters can now make tax-deductible donations through GiveWell UK
GiveWell UK is now fully registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in the United Kingdom. Our UK supporters now have a tax-deductible option for donating directly to GiveWell! The basics We’ve launched GiveWell UK as a UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), with the registered charity number 1196392, and the official UK partner of GiveWell. Beginning…
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Changes to our top charity criteria, and a new giving option
Since 2007, GiveWell has maintained a list of top charities. The organizations and programs on that list have changed over time, but the goal has remained the same: to help donors decide where to give. In service of that goal, we’ve spent roughly the last year working on a plan to add to and update…
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Switching From Corporate to Nonprofit Work: Career Transitions of Commercially Imprinted Managers
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Despite an increasing number of executives who transition from for-profit to not-for-profit organizations, our understanding of how commercially imprinted managers navigate the new setting remains limited. We collected data in the form of biographical interviews and observations with managers who had previously held a leading position in…
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The Promise and Perils of Comparing Nonprofit Data Across Borders
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The movement to democratize data and the advent of virtual research teams provides a near-perfect opportunity for an explosion of comparative nonprofit research. This manuscript provides a useful framework for scholars interested in utilizing comparative nonprofit data. By documenting how the lived context of the data is…