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21 May 2018
Little, unique codes hold our world together
This post was written by Ian Makgill, the founder of OpenOpps.com, the largest database of open tender opportunities in the world. Have you noticed that your email address is completely unique? Its obvious that this would be true, but it bears thinking about. In all the millions and millions of email addresses there isn’t another like […]
15 May 2018
What does funders’ data tell us about grants to mental health?
As it’s mental health week this week, we wanted to see what 360Giving data tells us about mental health funding in the UK. Key findings In 2016 and 2017, 360Giving publishers gave 1,800 grants worth £155 million to projects that focused on mental health. The largest funded project – Time to Change – received £7.5 […]
14 May 2018
Why do organisation identifiers matter? Lessons from the healthcare sector
Over the coming months, 360Giving is working with an expert group looking at the issue of organisation identifiers and how they can be improved. We want to maximise the usefulness of 360Giving data and being able to identify which organisations received what funding. This guest blog post by Giuseppe Sollazzo explains what identifiers are and […]
8 May 2018
What did we do in our first Data Dive?
Last month we had an exciting collaboration with DataKind UK, who ran a Data Dive for us. DataKind brings together data scientists with charities to collaborate on data analytics as part of increasing social impact. Their “Data Dives” are weekend events where volunteers come together to work on a pre-selected topic. For our Data Dive, […]
27 April 2018
We’re awarding £20,000 of prizes in our first Visualisation Challenge - here’s why
Around 80% of the information we take in is by eye. According to studies, there’s a good chance that you are a visual learner – an estimated two thirds of us are. But what do these facts have to do with our work at 360Giving? Well, it turns out that infographics aren’t just pretty ways […]
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.
24 April 2018
Join us on a journey to draw insights from data
From May to July 2018, we’re ‘digging the data’ as part of our Quest for Questions. This will be a journey to answer important questions about funding, led by our expert data analyst, Edafe Onerhime. We are taking our Data Expeditions – fun and dynamic group workshops to learn data skills – one step further. Do you […]
17 April 2018
Who funds science and research in the UK?
The UK’s largest charitable funder, the Wellcome Trust, has recently shared data on the billions of pounds worth of grantmaking it has made since October 2005. Although Wellcome already shared its grants data on its own website, having the data in the 360Giving Standard allows us to see these grants alongside grants from other funders, making […]
10 April 2018
UK’s largest charitable funder publishes £6bn of grants data in the 360Giving Standard
360Giving’s campaign to open up UK grants data and make grantmaking more informed and effective has received a huge boost with over £6 billion worth of grants published by the Wellcome Trust. The UK’s largest charitable funder has shared data on the billions of pounds worth of grantmaking it has made since October 2005 in […]
27 March 2018
Join us on a Data Expedition and get to grips with data
360Giving’s Data Expeditions deliver a double whammy, using a fun and dynamic step-by-step group process to both skill up organisations in the handling and wrangling of all kinds of data while throwing light on the issues they want answering. One summer day last year, the Blagrave Trust approached us to see if we could help […]
26 March 2018
And our burning questions are...
This blog was written by Sameer Padania, 360Giving trustee. Thanks to the tireless work of the 360Giving team and their many donor partners, there’s a huge (and growing and growing) amount of data available that anyone can search – free-of-charge – about the billions of pounds of grant funding made locally and nationally in the […]
13 March 2018
POWER BI Manual
During our Open Data Day event at the beginning of March, we demonstrated a number of easy-to-use tools that can enhance your everyday data use. In this series of blogs we share our learnings and provide short manuals that will help get you started with using each tool. The first tool we will cover […]
8 March 2018
What 360Giving Data Can Tell us About Giving for Women
For International Women’s Day, we decided to see what grants have been awarded for women’s causes using data published to the 360Giving Standard. Using GrantNav, we looked at the grant descriptions and searched for keywords that we know are related to projects targeted at women (women, girl, mother, female, rape, domestic abuse). For grants made […]
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8 March 2018
Funders see potential of open data for whole sector
A push for transparency and a desire to improve grantmaking for the sector continues to drive funders to join our #greatergrantsdata movement by publishing their data to the 360Giving Standard. In the last two months, four more funders have published more than £13m worth of grants across a range of causes, taking the total value […]
5 March 2018
GrantNav gets a user upgrade
GrantNav is now 18 months old, so we felt it was time to look at how it’s used and how we could make it even better! We have listened to what you’ve told us about how you’re finding it to use. As a result, we’ve added some new features, made some tweaks, squashed some bugs […]
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5 March 2018
Letting data take the wheel
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales supports small and medium-sized charities committed to delivering work which breaks or prevents cycles of disadvantage. Here, the Foundation’s Research and Data Analyst, Alex Van Vliet, explains how comparing its grantmaking data with other data openly available via 360Giving offers fascinating insight into the importance, relevance and future direction […]
3 March 2018
Government must deliver on its open data promise
On Open Data Day 2018, we call on the UK Government to open up its grants data for every one of its departments in order to increase its value to civil society. In May 2016, the Government committed to publishing more granular level data on its grants expenditure in line with the open data standard […]
2 March 2018
Charities must embrace open data with open arms
Ahead of Open Data Day tomorrow, Rachel Rank explains why charities cannot ignore the trend. This is a cross-post from Civil Society (original can be found here) Tomorrow is Open Data Day but most charities may not appreciate the relevance of open data to their work or the role it will play in their future. Data […]
28 February 2018
Sharing data responsibly – how and why do human rights funders share data?
This blog was written by Tom Walker and Fieke Jansen of The Engine Room, with input from Rachel Rank of 360Giving and Lorena Klos of Ariadne. The blog is cross-posted from the Engine Room’s website (original can be found here). A second blog looks at responsible data considerations for sharing human rights data – what do […]
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 […]
