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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?

Lord Hodgson: the sector verdict
The sector has broadly welcomed Lord Hodgson’s Charities Act review report, Trusted and Independent: Giving charity back to charities, and its underlying focus on reducing red tape for the sector while maintaining public trust and confidence in charities. Though the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) suggested that while the report gets it right on most counts there are some ‘jarring notes’.

Tag Breached Charity Law and Code of Practice
The Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) has released the findings of its investigation into Tag Campaigns (Tag), affirming that the company breached the Institute of Fundraising (IoF) Code of Fundraising Practice for Face-to-Face Activity and charity law while fundraising on London’s streets in June 2012. Tag was fundraising on behalf of FRSB member charity, Marie Curie Cancer Care (Marie Curie).

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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

August/September 2011 Investment Analysis: Reaching the target

Target return funds are about being in the right assets at the right time, and being out of assets when they are not performing. Philip Smith weighs up the evidence for charities to take the plunge and Malcolm Herring shows how a targeted return approach seeks to achieve real returns on a consistent basis

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December/January 10/11 Cover feature: Filling the void

Much hope and expectation is on corporates to fill the substantial gap left by government funding cuts and a fall in fundraising revenue. Peter Davy looks at how charities should be dealing with corporates to help fill a vast hole in charity finances

Those hoping to solve the problem of arts funding through private sector sponsorship suffered a further blow in November: Sherlock Holmes thinks it impossible.....