The 2011 edition of ‘Family Foundation Giving Trends’ is out, produced by the Cass Business School with support from the Pears Foundation. Now in its fourth year, the report is invaluable as a source of data on giving by the 100 largest family foundations in the UK, which together account for 7% of all charitable […]
Britain’s Coalition Government gave another hint today about its Big Society big idea that it hopes will win over the voters, with the launch of an £80 million ($130 million) match fund to get philanthropists to start giving to the arts. Though the fund is a good idea, the government is still tinkering at the edges and more major […]
We all know that Americans are the most generous givers. But are they really? A new report about family foundation philanthropy in the US, UK, Germany and Italy, by the recently established research centre on charitable giving at London’s Cass Business School, is a welcome contribution to the rather thin field of international comparisons of […]