Made to measure? How should charities assess effectiveness?
Charities are being asked to measure their impact, but the idea is being met with resistance. David Ainsworth looks into why.
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Maximum impact: Is your charity being as effective as it possibly can be?
Children’s charity KIDS recently joined the British Quality Foundation, the membership organisation that promotes organisational excellence and performance improvement. Chief executive Caroline Stevens explains why.
Blind ambition: How RNIB introduced life-changing technology
A global technology project driven by the chair of RNIB means that millions of blind people worldwide could soon have affordable access to the internet.
How the FareShare and Tesco partnership has led to five million meals
Local UK charities served their beneficiaries five million extra meals last year, thanks to an innovative new partnership between FareShare and Tesco.
Winning a Charity Award was a ‘timely injection of positivity’
The Boxing Academy won the Education and training category at the Charity Awards 2016. Its chief executive Anna Cain recalls the process and the feeling of winning.
As an immediate tangible result we were invited to put in an application to a new funder
Michelle Emerson recalls Eureka!’s journey to winning the Charity Award for Arts, Culture and Heritage in 2016.
When we won a Charity Award I burst into tears
Entering the Charity Awards allowed Combat Stress to identify what it did well, says Karen Henderson.
Life by chocolate: An in-depth look at BHF's DECHOX campaign
British Heart Foundation’s DECHOX campaign is all about a fun chocolate fast. But the sophisticated, personalised email campaign behind it yielded some sweet results in 2016, as Elly Crump shares.
How to get a diverse charity board
So, you’re acutely aware that your board composition is too white/male/old/long-serving/ineffectual (delete as applicable and feel free to add other adjectives), and you’re convinced that change is needed. What next? How do you go about getting a diverse board? Tania Mason offers some advice.
Getting the right tools for the task
Leadership development is not the dark art that many perceive it to be, says Shaks Ghosh. It’s simply about learning key skills and behaviours and deploying them at the right time.