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7 September 2018
Poverty and reduced statutory funding in Trafford
7 September 2018 In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Bethan Rowsby is the grants administrator at Trafford Housing Trust providing administrative support to the rest of the Social Investment staff team as well as all to volunteers, including Social Investment Board, Virtual Committee and Community Mentors. I wanted […]
6 September 2018
Three Tools to Help You Explore Charity Commission Data
6 September 2018 Data held by the Charity Commission is valuable information for anyone who wants to understand the charity sector. The Commission makes lots of the information about charities in England and Wales available online via its public register, ranging from who the trustees are and the number of staff, to where and how […]
4 September 2018
Exploring community-based grants in Birmingham
As one of the biggest grant funders in Birmingham, Birmingham City Council has a responsibility to make its funding information available. What easier and better way to do this than to use the 360Giving data standard, so the Council’s grants can be explored alongside those from other funders? Thanks to a bit of help and […]
23 August 2018
Investment in music in deprived areas of England
23 August 2018 In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Nick Wilsdon is the Research and Evaluation Manager at Youth Music and chair of London Funders Research & Evaluation group. Youth Music is a national charity investing in music-making projects that help children and young people develop personally and […]
17 August 2018
The data journey
In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Gary Beharrell is an experienced grants manager covering the East Midlands area for the Lloyds Bank Foundation. He is on the board of trustees for the Association of Charitable Foundations and holds other volunteer and trustee roles in his local community. Here’s what Gary […]
6 August 2018
Samaritan grants and deprivation in London
In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Alison Beck is a grants administrator at London Catalyst, a trust tackling issues of poverty and ill-health within London. London Catalyst also administers the Samaritan Grants to assist people in emergency situations. The Samaritan grants were the focus of Alison’s data journey. Here’s […]
6 August 2018
Data Journeys: Building confidence and communities
When we started the 360Giving data journey, we agreed on the usual things: objectives, outcomes and an outline of the programme. Data expeditions had already proven their worth, with growing demand for these one-day explorations of data. The extension of data expeditions into a data journey was an exciting leap into the unknown. Here’s what […]
24 July 2018
Patchwork Philanthropy
This blog was written by Rachel Rank, 360Giving and Helen Goulden, CEO of Young Foundation. The blog is cross-posted from the Young Foundation’s website (original can be found here) Patchwork Philanthropy – What can funding and spending data tell us about communities and place? Funders are increasingly ‘turning to place’ as the answer to addressing inequality. This […]
10 July 2018
Toward Data Driven Philanthropy
This blog was written by Stefaan Verhulst of The GovLab. The blog is cross-posted from the GovLab’s website (original can be found here). We live in an increasingly quantified world, one where data is driving key decisions. Data is claimed to provide the new competitive advantage for business, while making policy more evidence based. Yet, paradoxically, even as […]
28 June 2018
Data visualisation: truth or interpretation?
Through our Digging the Data Visualisation Challenge we aim to unlock the potential of 360Giving data to help answer key questions facing grantmakers. Data, and open data in particular, is supposed to represent the truth and objectivity, as well as introduce the facts in an unbiased way. But what does ‘truth’ really mean in the age […]
27 June 2018
360Giving & Open Contracting - What We Learned From Our DataDive
In April we ran a Data Dive with DataKind UK looking at funding to the criminal justice sector in the UK. This is our second blog about what we found and learned. You can read the first blog here. We asked DataKind to run a Data Dive for us as we wanted to link 360Giving […]
22 June 2018
Small but vital - 360Giving analysis of small charities in Lambeth and Southwark
For Small Charity Week, we decided to explore our local boroughs, Lambeth (where our office is located) and Southwark and see which small charities are receiving grants from funders that share their data in the 360Giving standard format. How small is small? There is no agreed definition of a small charity. The Foundation for Social […]
12 June 2018
A visual exploration of the 360Giving data journey workshop
On 31 May 2018, I facilitated a data journey with 360Giving, focusing on statutory funding. Thank you to all the participants and my co-facilitators: Tracey Gyateng of DataKind UK, Anna Petruccelli of Comic Relief and Mor Rubinstein and Natalia Domagala of 360Giving. As Fran Perrin, founder and director of 360Giving, said: “Questions can change the world”. […]
11 June 2018
You can’t always get what you want: ‘amount applied for’ in grants data
This blog post was written by Nick Perks, Trust Secretary at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust In the spirit of an empowering approach, at Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) we like to award the full amount that an applicant requests. “Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar” has become something of a saying […]
21 May 2018
Little, unique codes hold our world together
This post was written by Ian Makgill, the founder of OpenOpps.com, the largest database of open tender opportunities in the world. Have you noticed that your email address is completely unique? Its obvious that this would be true, but it bears thinking about. In all the millions and millions of email addresses there isn’t another like […]
15 May 2018
What does funders’ data tell us about grants to mental health?
As it’s mental health week this week, we wanted to see what 360Giving data tells us about mental health funding in the UK. Key findings In 2016 and 2017, 360Giving publishers gave 1,800 grants worth £155 million to projects that focused on mental health. The largest funded project – Time to Change – received £7.5 […]
14 May 2018
Why do organisation identifiers matter? Lessons from the healthcare sector
Over the coming months, 360Giving is working with an expert group looking at the issue of organisation identifiers and how they can be improved. We want to maximise the usefulness of 360Giving data and being able to identify which organisations received what funding. This guest blog post by Giuseppe Sollazzo explains what identifiers are and […]
8 May 2018
What did we do in our first Data Dive?
Last month we had an exciting collaboration with DataKind UK, who ran a Data Dive for us. DataKind brings together data scientists with charities to collaborate on data analytics as part of increasing social impact. Their “Data Dives” are weekend events where volunteers come together to work on a pre-selected topic. For our Data Dive, […]
27 April 2018
We’re awarding £20,000 of prizes in our first Visualisation Challenge - here’s why
Around 80% of the information we take in is by eye. According to studies, there’s a good chance that you are a visual learner – an estimated two thirds of us are. But what do these facts have to do with our work at 360Giving? Well, it turns out that infographics aren’t just pretty ways […]
26 April 2018
360Giving Challenge Fund
In this phase of our Challenge Fund – Digging the Data – we will try to answer questions about open data through a Data Visualisation Competition and Data Journey programme.