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Directory of Social Change launches new service
Just two weeks after the Directory of Social Change took ownership of GuideStar, a new service has been launched. The Funder's Snapshot from GuideStar Data Services helps funders get a quick and simple update in their field of giving so they can be smarter and more proactive in directing their funds. Drawing on the most detailed repository of data on English and Welsh charities, the Snapshot offers a bespoke report on charities eligible for funding and helps funders decide: are there enough qualifying charities who could receive our donations? are they doing the kind of work that matches our funding objectives? are they already sufficiently funded by others?
Ownership of GuideStar transfers to DSC
Ownership of www.guidestar.org.uk, the free public website, and GuideStar Data Services (CIC) has been transferred from GuideStar International to the Directory of Social Change. This combines the most detailed repository of information about charities and the voluntary sector with the largest publisher of information for those who work in it. Ben Wittenberg, director of Policy & Research at the Directory of Social Change, said: "We believe this combined entity can refresh and strengthen the sector and we are excited about how GDS' service providing bespoke information on the sector will support DSC's mission of connecting people and working towards social change."
Ownership of GuideStar transfers to DSC
Ownership of www.guidestar.org.uk, the free public website, and GuideStar Data Services (CIC) has been transferred from GuideStar International to the Directory of Social Change. This combines the most detailed repository of information about charities and the voluntary sector with the largest publisher of information for those who work in it. Ben Wittenberg, director of Policy & Research at the Directory of Social Change, said: "We believe this combined entity can refresh and strengthen the sector and we are excited about how GDS' service providing bespoke information on the sector will support DSC's mission of connecting people and working towards social change."
Aug/Sept cover story: The EU and civil society
The European Union is one of the largest donors to civil society in the world, but also accused of not truly engaging with sector organisations. Peter Davy investigates the EU/sector relationship
Current struggles over the Eurozone debt crisis have done little to endear the EU to British voters, it seems. Two polls in July had half the population saying they would vote to leave were a referendum held. In the survey by pollsters AngusReid, only a third thought EU membership had been positive for the country...
December/January 2012 Cover Feature: The Good Leader
With morale in the sector at its lowest ebb, Duncan Jefferies asks what makes an effective leader and how charities can attract and develop the best management talent in the current environment
