UK Trust launches projects on civil society and climate change

The Carnegie UK Trust has launched two projects that are designed to engage civil society groups in the challenges of climate change. One project will produce a guide to enable organizations that do not have an environmental focus to understand and respond to the challenges posed by climate change. The initiative will be led by the Eden Project. A second initiative, run jointly with the new economics foundation (nef), will explore the practicality of bridging the social justice and climate change agendas, and the role of civil society organizations in doing so.

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Million-pound donors contributing nearly 5 per cent of UK charities’ total income

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Heloise Waislitz Fellowship in Philanthropy

The Asia-Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia is looking for candidates for the Heloise Waislitz Fellowship in Philanthropy for 2009. The Fellowship, funded by the Pratt Foundation, meets the travel and living expenses for a scholar or practitioner to spend up to three months lecturing and researching in Australia. The Centre teaches, conducts research and consults in most aspects of philanthropy and social investment, especially grantmaking.

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Survey suggests charitable giving growing in emerging economies

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Ford and Gates to increase payout rate in 2009 but …

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WFP warns of impending food aid crisis

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Virgin Money to launch ‘not-for-profit’ online donation service

Virgin Money is to launch an online donation service which, it claims, will raise more money for charities than providers of similar services because it will want only to cover its costs. It will charge a lower fee on the donation and none on Gift Aid. ‘By operating on a not-for-profit basis, we can ensure more of people's hard-earned donations makes it to the charities for good causes,’ says Jayne-Anne Gadhia, chief executive of Virgin Money, which aims to launch the new service, Virgin Money Giving, in April. Its aim is to raise a quarter of a billion pounds through the website by 2015.

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European Foundation Centre report on capacity building for foundations

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Foundation giving produces $8 for every $1, says study by Philanthropic Collaborative

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Mixed picture for US corporate giving in 2009

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