CAF and NCVO join forces on charitable giving research programme
Howard Lake | 6 December 2002 | News
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) have joined forces to manage a new two-year programme of research on charitable giving.
The two organisations will produce an annually updated picture of voluntary support for good causes based on donor surveys. The combined programme is informed by an independent Advisory Group made up of experts in the field of charitable giving.
The two bodies have collaborated before on giving research, feeding into each other’s publications such as NCVO’s “UK Voluntary Sector Almanac” and CAF’s “A Lot Of Give”. The research project is a partnership rather than a merger, since each organisation will continue to operate in its own independent role.
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Both organisations already use the same research agency, NOP, to conduct their surveys of individual charitable giving.
Karl Wilding, Head of Research at NCVO, said: “This new partnership between CAF and NCVO will ensure that our distinct competencies will be applied to ensure that individual giving surveys are put to the most effective use possible.”
Cathy Pharoah, Director of Research at CAF said: “By working together even more closely over the next two years, we will be able to provide a strong platform for developing sector research on individual giving. And only when we have a greater understanding of this area, can we really begin to explore its full potential.”
The role of the advisory group will be to ensure that stakeholders from right across the voluntary sector are consulted at an early stage in all giving research development. The group will include individuals from the CAF and NCVO research teams, academics who specialise in the voluntary sector, fundraising experts and others.
The first joint report is expected to be published in summer 2003.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.