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5 May 2020
COVID19: Funders are innovating in unprecedented ways
This Giving Tuesday, we celebrate how the voluntary sector is finding new ways to collaborate and innovate to target their support, and enable the best use of limited resources in such challenging times. Open data’s value has never been greater for the public good
20 April 2020
COVID19: Guidance on tagging and tracking changes to existing grants
In response to the coronavirus crisis, some funders are making changes to what their grants are funding. By updating their existing grants data accordingly, funders can contribute to the bigger picture of how projects and organisations are being affected, and the changes being made in response. Here, we set out guidance on how funders can […]
25 March 2020
COVID19: We’ve updated our ‘who funds who’ data and visualisation to support collaboration
This blog was published in 2020. Please visit 360giving.org/data for an up to date version of this visualisation and statistics. We’ve updated our data and ‘who funds who’ visualisation to help funders clearly see which other funders share their recipients. We hope it will help funders to coordinate better on their responses to the coronavirus […]
24 March 2020
COVID19: how a small data task can make a big impact for funding
The voluntary sector will play a vital role in supporting communities affected by the coronavirus crisis in the UK. We know there are many important things to think about, but we ask funders to do a small task to make a huge difference to the sector’s ability to coordinate. Funders can ensure that funding made […]
16 March 2020
So long, and thanks for all the data*
I’m leaving 360Giving this week, and I’ve been reflecting on our progress over the past four years. When I started as CEO in November 2015, I was the organisation’s first employee. The initiative had been incubated by Nesta under the watchful eye of Alice Casey. It had recently registered as a charity and a handful of […]
3 February 2020
How to build a data culture
To make the best use and impacts from data, organisations often need a culture shift. We talk a lot about the benefits of developing a data culture, but what does that mean? Here, Rachel Rank sets out the characteristics and how grantmakers can embed them in their own organisations. A group discussion at the launch […]
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29 January 2020
Welcoming Tania Cohen as 360Giving’s CEO
As many of you know, our CEO Rachel Rank is moving on in March this year. Rachel has been here since the beginning, and her unwavering dedication, energy and enthusiasm have been instrumental to our success so far. It has been wonderful to work under Rachel’s leadership, but as she said in her recent blogpost: […]
23 January 2020
‘Left behind?’ Understanding communities on the edge
The term ‘left behind’ has featured increasingly in social policy discussions in recent years. Here, Stefan Noble from OCSI shares how they have been working with Local Trust to develop a quantitative measure of left-behind areas using open data. As part of this, for the first time, a Community Needs Index has been created, including […]
9 January 2020
Meet Manny Hothi, our new board member at 360Giving
We are really proud of our board of trustees at 360Giving, especially how engaged and invested they are in our work. We chat with Manny Hothi, who joins our board in 2020, about his background in data and innovation, the single stat that shaped his career and what excites him about joining the open grants […]
18 December 2019
The 12 Grants of Christmas
Updated December 2022. With Christmas around the corner, we haven’t just been eating endless mince pies. Well, we have been, daily, but we’ve also used our grants data search engine GrantNav to bring you some festive funding and grants yule love to get you in the Christmas spirit 🎄 By David Kane and Anna Scott […]
5 November 2019
How Birmingham City Council is using data to understand funding in the West Midlands
With the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on the horizon, Birmingham City Council is working to understand what grantmaking currently looks like across the region. Here, Sam Milsom from Open Data Manchester shares how over three workshops he helped the council to better understand who is funding what and where, and where there is potential for […]
1 November 2019
Grantmaking data champions unite!
We are soon to launch a Data Champions programme [update: now launched] to connect and support people who are interested in helping their foundations to be more data-informed. Here, the programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares what happened at a recent taster workshop, bringing together grantmakers from across the UK for peer-learning, discussion and cake Data […]
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30 October 2019
Standing down as CEO
After four hugely rewarding years at 360Giving, I have decided it’s time to hand over the reins to someone new. I’ll be leaving the organisation in spring 2020 once a new CEO has been appointed. I have very much enjoyed my time building 360Giving. After a year of incubation at Nesta under the watchful eye […]
9 September 2019
How much does the UK government give in grants?
Grants from government are a crucial part of the voluntary sector’s funding mix. In this post, David Kane uses identifiers to explore the 2017/18 government grants data and understand the types of organisations which received funding. Updated data Since this blog was released, 16 central UK Government departments have published open data about the grants […]
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19 August 2019
What we’ve learned from implementing a data champions initiative
This report reflects on concluding the pilot initiative of Data Champions and how 360Giving plans to integrate what it has learned into future activities.
12 August 2019
Developing data champions
Our first go at creating a network of data champions has revealed a thirst for connecting with others to use data for better grantmaking. In 2017, collaborating with UK Community Foundations we brought 10 people together for a data expedition and this sparked their interest in learning more together. In interviews we learned that as […]
2 August 2019
More and better data, but can we follow the money?
Last month NCVO launched its 2019 Civil Society Almanac, which they describe as “a treasure trove of voluntary sector data” – and it is. As NCVO’s Stuart Etherington says in his introduction, “…such dispassionate analysis is an important way of holding a mirror up to what we do”. I agree, and I’m a huge fan […]
30 July 2019
My first data visualisation brought clarity on how on-target our funding is
“We thought we were sharing data for the benefit of grantees, but now we realise that it benefits us too” When we heard that Patrick O’Kelly of the Clothworkers Foundation had been inspired at an event by a data visualisation, and saw how he’d created his own using 360Giving data, we invited him to tell […]
15 July 2019
Joint letter from civil society groups urges UK government to take urgent action to overhaul its use of data
Joint press release, London, Monday 15 July 2019 The UK government has the opportunity to transform its use of data, but is missing the opportunity and risks falling behind other countries if it does not invest now, civil society groups have today said. In an open letter to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, […]
4 July 2019
From spaghetti junction to open, transparent grantmaking data
This blog first appeared on Medium, as part of the Funding Utopia project, Exploring radical, transformative ideas for the future of UK grant funding. At present, it’s not possible to find a complete dataset on all charitable grants provided in the UK. This means the huge financial flows from grantmakers to grantees are opaque. This […]