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13 November 2020
'Taking grantmakers on a journey with data and insights': meet incoming 360Giving trustee Jo Kerr
Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Jo Kerr, Director of Innovation and Impact at Turn2us. In this post, we speak to Jo about the changes in digital, technology and data in charities, and what excites her about joining 360Giving. You can […]
11 November 2020
'It's time for a movement-based funding approach': meet incoming 360Giving trustee Jon Cracknell
Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Jon Cracknell, Trust Secretary of the Ecology Trust. In this post, we speak to Jon about his experience and the changes he’s seen in environmental philanthropy, and what excites him about joining 360Giving. You can get […]
6 November 2020
'360Giving has led more funders to think more strategically': meet Bonnie Chiu, incoming 360Giving trustee
Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director at The Social Investment Consultancy. In this post, we speak to Bonnie about women’s empowerment, the value of young trustees and what excites her about joining 360Giving. You can get to […]
6 November 2020
'I'm a big believer in transparency as a way of catalysing improvements': meet incoming 360Giving trustee Dr Danil Mikhailov
Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Dr Danil Mikhailov, Founder and Head of Wellcome Data Labs at the Wellcome Trust. In this post, we speak to Danil about creating Wellcome Data Labs, data maturity and what excites him about joining 360Giving. […]
5 November 2020
'Grantmaking is both a science and an art': meet incoming 360Giving trustee Thrisha Haldar
Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Thrisha Haldar, Lead Executive at The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Fund. In this post, we speak to Thrisha about her background, her thoughts on grantmaking strategy and what excites her about joining 360Giving. You can […]
3 November 2020
Introducing our six new trustees
We are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board over the coming months. This Trustees’ Week 2020, we hear from our new trustees on why they are excited to be joining 360Giving. We will be launching separate interviews with each new trustee throughout the week to get to know them better, so […]
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2 November 2020
The UK Government has published its 2018-19 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard
On Thursday 29 October 2020, 16 central UK Government departments published open data about the grants they have made using the 360Giving Data Standard. In doing so, the government has joined the UK’s leading trusts and foundations who already publish their grants data openly in the Standard, to help us all have a fuller picture […]
27 October 2020
Find that Charity: the place to go for data on 660,000 non-profit organisations
Find that Charity, a tool created by our team member David Kane to help look up non-profit organisations, has been updated and refreshed. It now brings together data from 16 different sources and is the most comprehensive database of non-profit organisations in the UK. The updated site, https://findthatcharity.uk, draws on open data published by official […]
9 October 2020
360Giving Founder and Chair Fran Perrin awarded OBE
We are delighted that our Founder and Chair Fran Perrin has been awarded an OBE in today’s honours in recognition of her charitable services, including for setting up and driving 360Giving, particularly during COVID-19. In its five years, 360Giving has changed the status quo for funding in the UK. With support from 360Giving, the UK’s […]
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30 September 2020
Equalities data: working towards a shared taxonomy
By Tania Cohen, Chief Executive of 360Giving, and Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director of The Social Investment Consultancy At 360Giving, we are excited to unveil a new project we’re working on with The Social Investment Consultancy, which specialises in impact measurement for charities and foundations. They previously co-founded the Diversity Forum for Inclusive Social Investment. We […]
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24 September 2020
The Kruger Report: 360Giving welcomes recommendations for more open grants data
Today, Danny Kruger MP published ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, his report on civil society and recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. Danny Kruger MP. Photo: David Woolfall. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 The report was published in response to the Prime Minister’s call for proposals to ‘sustain the community spirit’ of the nation that […]
21 September 2020
Funders, do you need a data scientist?
With funders sitting on a goldmine of data, more are asking how they can best use data and what skills they might need to do that. But do you need a data scientist, an analyst or an engineer? In this guest post, Michael Jarvis, Executive Director at Transparency & Accountability Initiative, shares guidance for funding […]
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27 August 2020
Analysing grants for LGBTQI+ organisations
The end of June was a time of pride. 🏳️🌈 To help mark it, I analysed 360Giving data to understand grants made to LGBTQI+ causes. It was also a good excuse to use some of the new principles I learned from the book Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, and see if […]
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21 August 2020
Introducing the 360Giving Data Strategy Canvas
The words ‘data’ and ‘strategy’ can seem intimidating when used on their own. Thinking about the two together can give many people, myself included, a headache. When we started to talk about the idea of ‘data leadership’ for our Data Champions programme, run with Dirk Slater from FabRiders, we thought we needed to tackle the topic […]
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6 August 2020
‘Below the Radar’: understanding some of the UK’s smallest charities
In a new report, published today, we’ve set out a process for discovering and analysing ‘below the radar’ organisations working in communities across the UK. The report uses 360Giving data – published openly by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard – to identify a set of organisations that receive grants from UK foundations but […]
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21 July 2020
Virtual Data Expedition – August 2020
Join Open Data Manchester and 360Giving this August for a free, two-week Virtual Data Expedition to improve your data skills. Would you like to feel more confident using data? Do you want to use data to better inform what you do? Whatever your data skills, wherever you are, you’re invited to join a Virtual Data […]
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2 July 2020
We are 5: our highlights, lessons and hopes for the future
Today is our 5th birthday 🎂 To mark it, we’re sharing some – well, five – of our biggest highlights, challenges and lessons over the last five years, along with five things we hope for the future. Photo by S O C I A L . C U T on Unsplash We can’t believe it’s […]
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1 July 2020
Meet the Data Champions! We speak with two participants about their experiences
In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Here, we speak with two participants from our most recent cohort about what they’ve learned and enjoyed during the programme, along with the data challenges they’re grappling with at the moment. Sharon Gollan […]
23 June 2020
360Giving’s Datastore: a coming-of-age story for open data infrastructure
Open Data Services help people publish and use open data. They’ve been working with 360Giving to help funders publish open data about their grants, and empower people to use this data to improve charitable giving. This is a guest post by Open Data Services, and it is cross-posted from Medium. 360Giving Datastore planning workshop […]
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22 June 2020
Data Visualisation Challenge
In 2018, 360Giving invited developers, researchers and anyone with an interest in the data to use our dataset to develop and visualise innovative solutions to two key questions facing the grantmaking sector.