You're currently viewing:
Effectiveness
Getting it right at the GEO conference in Seattle
Is grantmaking getting smarter? According to a survey recently released by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), the answer appears to be ‘not by much’ – or at least not fast enough. Last conducted in 2008, this …
Rankled over rankings
Another charity ranking system is out, this time in Canada: theMoneySense Charity 100 (not currently available online but the 2010 version is here). It takes a very small sample of 100 out of the more than 85,000 …
The strange case of how it’s spent vs. what it achieves
I’ve read a lot of annual reports in my time at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). Big charities, small charities and the ones in between. And one thing always leaps out at me – charities are …
NPC publishes pre-election manifesto on third sector effectiveness
With elections looming in the UK, and the non-profit sector dependent on the government for a third of its income, there is lively apprehension in the sector as to what the election results will mean …
