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26 February 2018
Join us for Open Data Day 2018
Mark Open Data Day by attending our show and tell session – come with your laptop, leave with a new skill! It’s no exaggeration to say we are in the throes of a quiet revolution – open data is changing the way we live, work and travel, yet most people still don’t know what open […]
20 February 2018
The 360Giving forum - a place for discussion
It all began with the standard When we started 360Giving, we put a lot of effort into designing a data standard that will help answer some of the big questions about grantmaking. The 360Giving Standard is open and so it belongs to everyone; but in order for people to use it, we knew it had […]
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13 February 2018
Questions you want open data to answer
Our Quest for Questions Challenge, a call out to the sector to share the burning questions you want open data to answer ended on 31st January, giving us 67 questions. They provide a comprehensive overview of the sector’s information needs. At the beginning of this journey, we expected to receive a few broad questions focussing […]
12 February 2018
Data Science students take deep dive into 10 years of Big Lottery Funding
360Giving is pleased to work with the research organisations and people not familiar with UK funding to check the usability and robustness of the data. Each year businesses, charities and local organisations are linked up with Data Science students from Lancaster University to give us a chance to work with large, complex data sets and […]
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17 January 2018
More than £6bn worth of open data released in last quarter of 2017
Seven more grantmakers have joined the #GreaterGrantsData movement by publishing their data to the 360Giving Standard, bringing the total value of open data to more than £17bn. It includes a major milestone – for the first time central government data has been released from the Department for Transport and the Ministry of Justice to a […]
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10 January 2018
More data, more use, more answers
2017 ended on a high note for 360Giving with a UK first. Following the sharing of over £4 billion worth of grants data by two government departments – the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Transport – for the first time ever in the UK it’s possible to compare government grants with those made […]
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3 January 2018
Challenge Fund - seven weeks in
Seven weeks ago we announced our Quest for Questions as part of our new Challenge Fund project. We have been pleased to discover that there are so many aspects of grantmaking that open data can help understand and advance. Thanks to your engagement, we now have over 20 questions to choose from and we hope […]
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15 December 2017
#LocalCharitiesDay 2017 - A quick dive into local giving
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15 December 2017
Keeping it local – why I’m sponsoring a bicycle this Christmas
Today is local charities day, giving us a chance to acknowledge and celebrate all the important work that charities do in their communities throughout the UK. Local charities by their nature tend to be small, and we know that small charities have had a tough time recently, with the government’s shift to issuing more contracts […]
29 November 2017
Let’s ask more of grantmaking and not settle for the status quo
This blog was originally published by Alliance Magazine on November 27, 2017. Philanthropist Fran Perrin, founder and director of 360Giving, the charity opening up UK grantmaking data, explains why they are launching a Quest for Questions as part of a new Challenge Fund – an open call to the sector to share questions on how data can […]
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27 November 2017
10 more funders share data to the 360Giving Standard highlighting diversity of support for open grantmaking
Since the end of September, 10 more grantmakers have joined the #greatergrantsdata movement by publishing their data to the 360Giving Standard, taking the total value of UK grants now openly available to almost £11bn. An additional £215m worth of grants data has been shared by a diverse range of funders including local councils, a community […]
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20 November 2017
What we learned at Open Data Camp and Mozfest and why it is relevant for Grantmaking
October was a busy month for data and tech events for 360Giving! On the weekend of 21-22 October, I attended my first Open Data Camp in Belfast. The following week I attended Mozfest, the annual festival of Mozilla, the parent company of the browser Firefox. Taking place in London and bringing people from all over […]
17 November 2017
360Giving calls on government to open up its grantmaking data to achieve new ‘joined up’ charities strategy
The government has announced plans to develop a new civil society strategy. It could take a giant leap forward by opening up all its grantmaking data, says 360Giving. Will Perrin, co-founder of 360Giving, said: “It’s fantastic that the government is aiming for a joined up approach to the way Whitehall works with charities. Tracey Crouch […]
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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.
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14 November 2017
Foundations’ most valuable assets include data
Philanthropic foundation spending reached almost £3 billion in 2015/16, its highest level ever according to the latest Foundation Giving Trends[1]. And with the value of foundation investments hitting a record £60 billion, public expectations of what foundations can do with their money are also running high. Private grant-making is equal to around 43% of the […]
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14 November 2017
360Giving Quest for Questions
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions” – Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist. 360Giving is on a Quest for Questions Help us unlock the insights contained in 360Giving data and other data sets by taking part in our Challenge Fund. We want to identify the key questions facing the funding sector and […]
31 October 2017
Leaping from a burning platform to a digital one delivers savings and a heap of useful data
Reach Volunteering, a charity that matches professionals that want to volunteer with charities, was facing a stark choice when it took the plunge to digitise its service. Here Reach CEO Janet Thorne shares the compelling drivers that kept them on the sometimes bumpy road to digitisation and transformation. When we launched our digital platform in […]
13 October 2017
Social Life’s Community Dynamics Data
Building neighbourhoods where communities can flourish in the long term is as important as designing places that are economically and environmentally sound. How can the success and progress of communities be measured and evaluated over time? Social Life has developed a new way to understand local communities through the use of data – we call […]
4 October 2017
A place for open data in the future of philanthropy
There is great focus at the moment on the role of cities. The slow decline of many urban areas across the UK has long been lamented as their traditional sustaining industries have disappeared and they struggle to find new identities. This has been exacerbated by the continuing North-South divide that is heavily skewed economically towards […]
3 October 2017
Nine new organisations swell 360Giving dataset
More than £10bn worth of grants are now been published to the 360Giving Standard with the addition of nine more grantmakers in the last two months. The new organisations include family, corporate and community foundations who collectively add £58m worth of grants, plus $404m from the Arcadia Fund, taking the total number of organisations that […]