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23 August 2018
Investment in music in deprived areas of England
23 August 2018 In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Nick Wilsdon is the Research and Evaluation Manager at Youth Music and chair of London Funders Research & Evaluation group. Youth Music is a national charity investing in music-making projects that help children and young people develop personally and […]
17 August 2018
The data journey
In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Gary Beharrell is an experienced grants manager covering the East Midlands area for the Lloyds Bank Foundation. He is on the board of trustees for the Association of Charitable Foundations and holds other volunteer and trustee roles in his local community. Here’s what Gary […]
6 August 2018
Samaritan grants and deprivation in London
In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Alison Beck is a grants administrator at London Catalyst, a trust tackling issues of poverty and ill-health within London. London Catalyst also administers the Samaritan Grants to assist people in emergency situations. The Samaritan grants were the focus of Alison’s data journey. Here’s […]
6 August 2018
Data Journeys: Building confidence and communities
When we started the 360Giving data journey, we agreed on the usual things: objectives, outcomes and an outline of the programme. Data expeditions had already proven their worth, with growing demand for these one-day explorations of data. The extension of data expeditions into a data journey was an exciting leap into the unknown. Here’s what […]
28 June 2018
Data visualisation: truth or interpretation?
Through our Digging the Data Visualisation Challenge we aim to unlock the potential of 360Giving data to help answer key questions facing grantmakers. Data, and open data in particular, is supposed to represent the truth and objectivity, as well as introduce the facts in an unbiased way. But what does ‘truth’ really mean in the age […]
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.
22 June 2018
Small but vital - 360Giving analysis of small charities in Lambeth and Southwark
For Small Charity Week, we decided to explore our local boroughs, Lambeth (where our office is located) and Southwark and see which small charities are receiving grants from funders that share their data in the 360Giving standard format. How small is small? There is no agreed definition of a small charity. The Foundation for Social […]
12 June 2018
A visual exploration of the 360Giving data journey workshop
On 31 May 2018, I facilitated a data journey with 360Giving, focusing on statutory funding. Thank you to all the participants and my co-facilitators: Tracey Gyateng of DataKind UK, Anna Petruccelli of Comic Relief and Mor Rubinstein and Natalia Domagala of 360Giving. As Fran Perrin, founder and director of 360Giving, said: “Questions can change the world”. […]
11 June 2018
You can’t always get what you want: ‘amount applied for’ in grants data
This blog post was written by Nick Perks, Trust Secretary at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust In the spirit of an empowering approach, at Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) we like to award the full amount that an applicant requests. “Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar” has become something of a saying […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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14 November 2016
Philanthropists and Funders: Why spending out and closing down needn't mean fading away
Foundations, charities and trusts close. This is a reality for charitable organisations and philanthropists who’ve met their goals, merged or decided to spend out their funds for any number of reasons. Take the Northern Rock Foundation. An independent grantmaking charity, it aimed to improve quality of life in the North East of England and Cumbria. […]