Innovation in Giving Fund shortlist announced
Howard Lake | 23 November 2011 | News
Nesta, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts which aims to make the UK more innovative, has announced the shortlist of initiatives for the first round of its £10 milion Innovation in Giving Fund. The Fund is designed “to deliver a significant increase in the giving and exchange of time, assets, skills, resources and money”.
Over 400 applications were received and Nesta has chosen 62 of them to go through to the next selection phase.
The shortlist includes:
10:10
Blue Dot World Ltd
Buzzbnk
Charities Aid Foundation
CharityGreetings.com
Community Foundation Network
Fairshare Music Limited
Givey
Guess2Give Holdings Ltd
Help the Hospices
Impetus Trust
JustGiving
KEOdigital
National Union of Students
OneWorld UK
Rogavi Network Ltd
See The Difference
Streetbank
The DoNation
The Pennies Foundation
Timebanking UK
timto ltd
V.
YouthNet
UK Fundraising’s application was not successful.
Craig Hartzel, CEO of CharityGreetings told UK Fundraising: “We are delighted to be shortlisted to the next round of the Innovation in Giving Fund. It’s these type of grants that allow smaller companies to continue to evolve.”
Nesta expects to open a second round of applications in Spring 2012.
www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/public_services_lab/giving/assets/features/innovation_in_giving_fund
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About Howard Lake
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.