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29 April 2021
Ideas to develop a data-driven leadership
In this blog, Data Champions facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights on how to encourage leaders to work with data, and techniques for communication from the workshop.
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29 April 2021
Confirmation bias and how funders might avoid it
In this blog, Data Champions facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights from the group discussion about grantmakers privilege and how to overcome confirmation bias.
31 March 2021
We’ve improved GrantNav: here’s what’s new
We have recently updated GrantNav, based on user research we carried out to better understand its users. We hope the new version will better meet users needs.
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30 March 2021
Key questions to ensure responsible data practice for funders
The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights about responsible data use from the workshop on January 27, 2021. Responsible data What is meant by responsible data? Data is power and with power […]
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30 March 2021
How much does the UK government give in grants? Updated 2021
On Thursday 25 March 2021, 16 central UK Government departments published their 2019-20 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard, and updated data about their 2017-18 grants. The new data covers 52,682 general grants that were active in 2019-20 worth a total of £31.8bn awarded to 22,140 recipients. At the same time, data for […]
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22 February 2021
Four steps to building a data culture in your funding organisation
The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares tips on building a ‘data culture’ to enable better use of data in funding organisations. The ‘Data Champions’ are a group of people from different UK funding […]
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19 February 2021
Which public datasets are most useful for funders?
In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, we share insights from the group about public datasets, including which are the most useful and how to get the most from them. There are many datasets out there that […]
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26 January 2021
Eight tips for overcoming common data challenges for funders
Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Having recently launched our third programme, facilitator Dirk Slater takes the opportunity to pause and reflect. In this blog, he highlights some of the common data challenges, and offers tips shared by the Data Champions […]
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18 December 2020
Data Champions month 1: data workflows and data collection
In our Data Champions programme, we bring a cohort of funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In the first month, we focused on data workflows and collecting data. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares the learnings and highlights from the group sessions. In […]
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10 December 2020
Introducing the 2020-21 Data Champions: part 2
Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the second of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with data […]
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10 December 2020
Introducing the 2020-21 Data Champions: part 1
Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November 2020, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the first of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with […]
1 December 2020
Giving Tuesday: What’s the best day of the week for grant giving?
To mark Giving Tuesday, we’ve taken to our search engine for grants data, GrantNav, to explore the significance of Tuesday for grantmaking!
19 November 2020
My first Data Expedition: a workshop without a Post-it note in sight!
In August 2020, 360Giving and Open Data Manchester co-hosted a Data Expedition for a group of budding data enthusiasts. Through five online workshops, the group worked with data from ‘start to finish’: identifying a question, finding and using data to answer it and finally telling a story with it. Here, Oliver Carrington from Imperial Health […]
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2 November 2020
The UK Government has published its 2018-19 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard
16 central UK Government have joined the UK’s leading trusts and foundations by publishing open data about the grants they have made using the 360Giving Data Standard
27 October 2020
Find that Charity: the place to go for data on 660,000 non-profit organisations
Find that Charity, created by our team member David Kane, has been updated with data from 16 different sources as the most comprehensive database of non-profit organisations in the UK.
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24 September 2020
The Kruger Report: 360Giving welcomes recommendations for more open grants data
Danny Kruger MP’s report. ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, on civil society and recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and beyond, has been published with key proposals around data and digital innovation.
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22 June 2020
Data Visualisation Challenge
In 2018, 360Giving invited developers, researchers and anyone with an interest in the data to use our dataset to develop and visualise innovative solutions to two key questions facing the grantmaking sector.
27 June 2018
360Giving & Open Contracting - What We Learned From Our DataDive
We ran a Data Dive with DataKind UK looking at funding to the criminal justice sector in the UK, linking 360Giving data to other datasets to see what we could find.
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26 April 2018
360Giving Challenge Fund
In this phase of our Challenge Fund – Digging the Data – we will try to answer questions about open data through a Data Visualisation Competition and Data Journey programme.
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15 November 2017
Quest for Questions – FAQs
The 360Giving Challenge Fund is an open invitation to the sector to share thoughts and ideas on the challenges facing you and how they might be solved by open data. Read the FAQs here.