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- Legal Eyes: Issues with designing your website or using social media
There are many legal issues to consider when creating your organisation’s website or using social media tools to interact with your supporters, beneficiaries and the general public. Read about the five key legal issues.
- GuideStar Funder Snapshot
GuideStar Data Services’ Funder Snapshot is the quickest, simplest way for funders to get a clear picture of their funding environment. It can be personalised to meet your criteria including listing of third sector organisations, income and geographical spreads, expenditures and contact names and mailing addresses. For a limited time, funders can get a FREE started mailing list of 500 third sector organisations filtered for your specific criteria with the Funder Snapshot.
- Total efficiency is the enemy of freedom
DSC believes that charities are as much about the civic engagement they represent as the work that they do. Jay Kennedy argues that we need to combat the worrying groupthink amongst policymakers in favour of mergers – because efficiency isn’t the point of civil society.
- What is good grantmaking?
This is the question we asked some of the UK’s leading trust and foundations – and in an exclusive new series of articles they give their response. We want to give you an insight into how these funders make grants and what they consider to be best practice in how they support their beneficiaries. For the first installment, Lisa Suchet, Chief Executive of the Nationwide Foundation, explains what good grantmaking means to them.
- Talk is cheap, but genuine altruism costs more than money
Recently The Times ran an article that argued charities shouldn’t deliver public services because they aren’t fit for purpose. DSC Chief Executive Debra Allcock Tyler reacts.
- August 2010 Quick Survey Analysis
Are there too many charities? The majority of respondents argued that more charities should close or merge in the name of efficiency.
- Word from Hurd: September 2010
Nick Hurd was impressed with your responses from last month on how to reduce bureaucracy and red tape, and so were we! This month he says, "I want to address the painful issue of cuts. I genuinely believe that we are working towards a future which is full of opportunity for the voluntary and community sector."
- Trustee-years
Ben Wittenberg, DSC's Director of Policy and Research highlights the impact of Board and Executive members having different time perspectives.
- Legal Eyes: Vetting and Barring Scheme Halted
Find out what is going on with the halt to Vetting and Barring Scheme announced by the Coalition government.
- Soap box: A Funding Adviser’s Diary
Ged Simpson, Funding Adviser at Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services sketches a light-hearted scenario of the weird weird world of funding.