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21 January 2021

The Right Candidate: Making your job application more attractive during the Covid-19 pandemic

The current job market is tough. We share some tips on how to make your job application stand out, based on our recent recruitment of two new Research Assistants.
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Young people
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13 January 2021

The UK Runs the Risk of Being a ‘Justgiving’ Nation

'Do-gooders', so called by Home Secretary Priti Patel, continue to plug the gaps in society left by the inaction of the current government. In this week's guest blog Peter Markham, a correspondent for the Immigration Advice Service, digs a little deeper into this worrying trend and questions what this means for charity in the UK.
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29 October 2020

Our fifth wave of public research on charities and the pandemic

This weekend we continued our series of polls to understand public reactions to the pandemic and charities. Case numbers, hospitalisations and deaths have all increased dramatically since our previous wave of fieldwork so now is a particularly important moment to try and gauge how the public is feeling. Explore our results in this week's blog.
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Health
Public Attitudes
16 September 2020

Why have charities not benefited from the pandemic boom in trust?

In May we saw a number of public bodies, such as the NHS, reach a peak in our measures of public trust. Charities, worryingly, seem to buck that trend. In this week's blog, Cian Murphy reflects on the potential reasons behind this and the implications for the sector:
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Public Attitudes
9 September 2020

New research finds funders have responded well to the outbreak of Covid-19

Earlier this year nfpSynergy surveyed 143 grantees and 218 unsuccessful applicants from The John Ellerman Foundation to understand how charities have been impacted by Covid-19, and the overall effectiveness of the foundation. In this week's blog, Tim Harrison-Byrne discusses some of the insights from that research.
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Grant-making
3 September 2020

How can the Royal family use its patronage to best affect?

The royal family is intimately connected to the charity sector. Employing a range of strategies they engage with and support charities in a variety of ways. In this week's blog, Joe Saxton reflects on five of the most significant strategies of royal engagement with the sector and the effectiveness of each.
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5 August 2020

Are young people replacing older people as the key volunteering group?

Volunteers have proved how crucial they are for the charity sector, and for society more broadly, during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this week's blog, Max Roche contextualises some recent changes in volunteering patterns within some longitudinal trends.
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Facts and Figures
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Volunteering
Young people
9 July 2020

Charities need great CEOs: so do we need a more nuanced debate around charity CEO salaries?

In this week's blog, Max Roche looks at some potential methods of quantifying charity CEO earnings beyond our fixation with the number of zeros at the end of the salary.
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Media
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25 June 2020

New research: understanding the perspectives of the UK LGBT+ population on their engagement with the Third Sector

This week's blog highlights the importance of making LGBT+ voices heard through research and analyses LGBT+ audiences' perspectives on what an ideal LGBT+ charity would look like.
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9 April 2020

Results from the latest wave of our public research on the pandemic and its impact on charities

This week's blog focuses on the results of our latest wave of research into the impact of Covid-19 on the charity sector. We highlight the changing public perceptions of the crisis as well as looking at the government and charity response, drawing out key conclusions about what this could mean for the sector.
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Politicians
Public Attitudes
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6 April 2020

Going Viral | Covid-19: How have charities responded to the first phase of the crisis?

To find out how charities are responding to the first phase of the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak, we conducted twenty-four interviews speaking to a range of charity sector staff from CEOs and directors to fundraising, marketing and communications professionals.
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18 December 2019

Generation Game: How might the charity world have changed in 20 years?

What will the world look like for charities 20 years from now? Joe Saxton shares some predictions.
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