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  • October 2008 Quick Survey Analysis: Changing the world? Respondents say

    Do you make a difference through lobbying, advocacy, campaigning, protesting, or petitioning? Majority of enews readers make a difference through advocacy.

  • “Yes, we can!’ – Jay Kennedy reports from DSC’s Campaigning Conference

    DSC Policy Officer Jay Kennedy shares insights from our campaigning conference.

  • Great giving

    This month we launched our great giving campaign, a two year project committed to influencing funders and improving key areas of grant-making. The campaign aims to create a clear picture of the funding environment, improve access to funds for campaigning, remove small print from the application process and eliminate ineligible funding applications.

  • Legal Eyes: Prize Competitions and Free Draws

    Running a lottery, competition or prize draw? If you don’t understand the key differences between these activities you could find yourself inadvertently running illegal lotteries or even committing criminal offences!

  • Funding for Sustainable Change

    Newly published DSC report explores the extent to which grant-making trusts fund campaigning, advocacy and influencing. DSC research shows lack of clarity from grant- making trusts about whether they will fund campaigning. This makes it needlessly difficult for organisations to identify potential sources of support and means fewer charities are able to undertake campaigning activity.

  • October 2008 Quick Survey Analysis: Changing the world? DSC says

    We’re all here to change the world in some way, whatever our precise tactics or ways of working. It’s clear from the survey responses that there are many ways of doing this, such as lobbying politicians, raising awareness, helping individuals one at a time, seeking changes in the law, and taking personal responsibility. As several people pointed out, often you do several activities at once or adopt different tactics for different situations.

  • Findings from The Funders’ Almanac 2008

    We’ve taken our first step towards a clearer picture of the funding environment with The Funders’ Almanac 2008, a publication which reveals funders’ preferences for areas, causes and beneficiaries.



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