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6 November 2020
'I'm a big believer in transparency as a way of catalysing improvements': meet incoming 360Giving trustee Dr Danil Mikhailov
We spoke to our new Trustee Dr Danil Mikhailov, Founder of Wellcome Data Labs at the Wellcome Trust about creating the Data Labs, data maturity and what excites him about joining 360Giving.
5 November 2020
'Grantmaking is both a science and an art': meet incoming 360Giving trustee Thrisha Haldar
We spoke to our new Trustee Jo Kerr, Lead Executive at The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Fund about her background, grantmaking strategy and what excites her about joining 360Giving.
3 November 2020
Introducing our six new trustees
We are welcoming six new trustees onto our board over the coming months, and for Trustees’ Week 2020 we hear from our new trustees on why they are excited to be joining 360Giving.
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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.
9 October 2020
360Giving Founder and Chair Fran Perrin awarded OBE
Our Founder and Chair Fran Perrin has been awarded an OBE in recognition of her charitable services, including for setting up and driving 360Giving, particularly during COVID-19.
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30 September 2020
Equalities data: working towards a shared taxonomy
By Tania Cohen, Chief Executive of 360Giving, and Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director of The Social Investment Consultancy At 360Giving, we are excited to unveil a new project we’re working on with The Social Investment Consultancy, which specialises in impact measurement for charities and foundations. They previously co-founded the Diversity Forum for Inclusive Social Investment. We […]
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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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21 July 2020
Virtual Data Expedition – August 2020
Join Open Data Manchester and 360Giving this August for a free, two-week Virtual Data Expedition to improve your data skills. Would you like to feel more confident using data? Do you want to use data to better inform what you do? Whatever your data skills, wherever you are, you’re invited to join a Virtual Data […]
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2 July 2020
We are 5: our highlights, lessons and hopes for the future
Today is our 5th birthday 🎂 To mark it, we’re sharing some – well, five – of our biggest highlights, challenges and lessons over the last five years, along with five things we hope for the future. Photo by S O C I A L . C U T on Unsplash We can’t believe it’s […]
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1 July 2020
Meet the Data Champions! We speak with two participants about their experiences
In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Here, we speak with two participants from our most recent cohort about what they’ve learned and enjoyed during the programme, along with the data challenges they’re grappling with at the moment. Sharon Gollan […]
23 June 2020
360Giving’s Datastore: a coming-of-age story for open data infrastructure
Open Data Services help people publish and use open data. They’ve been working with 360Giving to help funders publish open data about their grants, and empower people to use this data to improve charitable giving. This is a guest post by Open Data Services, and it is cross-posted from Medium. 360Giving Datastore planning workshop […]
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5 May 2020
COVID19: Funders are innovating in unprecedented ways
This Giving Tuesday, we celebrate how the voluntary sector is finding new ways to collaborate and innovate to target their support, and enable the best use of limited resources in such challenging times. Open data’s value has never been greater for the public good
25 March 2020
COVID19: We’ve updated our ‘who funds who’ data and visualisation to support collaboration
This blog was published in 2020. Please visit 360giving.org/data for an up to date version of this visualisation and statistics. We’ve updated our data and ‘who funds who’ visualisation to help funders clearly see which other funders share their recipients. We hope it will help funders to coordinate better on their responses to the coronavirus […]
24 March 2020
COVID19: how a small data task can make a big impact for funding
The voluntary sector will play a vital role in supporting communities affected by the coronavirus crisis in the UK. We know there are many important things to think about, but we ask funders to do a small task to make a huge difference to the sector’s ability to coordinate. Funders can ensure that funding made […]
16 March 2020
So long, and thanks for all the data*
I’m leaving 360Giving this week, and I’ve been reflecting on our progress over the past four years. When I started as CEO in November 2015, I was the organisation’s first employee. The initiative had been incubated by Nesta under the watchful eye of Alice Casey. It had recently registered as a charity and a handful of […]
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29 January 2020
Welcoming Tania Cohen as 360Giving’s CEO
As many of you know, our CEO Rachel Rank is moving on in March this year. Rachel has been here since the beginning, and her unwavering dedication, energy and enthusiasm have been instrumental to our success so far. It has been wonderful to work under Rachel’s leadership, but as she said in her recent blogpost: […]
9 January 2020
Meet Manny Hothi, our new board member at 360Giving
We are really proud of our board of trustees at 360Giving, especially how engaged and invested they are in our work. We chat with Manny Hothi, who joins our board in 2020, about his background in data and innovation, the single stat that shaped his career and what excites him about joining the open grants […]
18 December 2019
The 12 Grants of Christmas
Updated December 2022. With Christmas around the corner, we haven’t just been eating endless mince pies. Well, we have been, daily, but we’ve also used our grants data search engine GrantNav to bring you some festive funding and grants yule love to get you in the Christmas spirit 🎄 By David Kane and Anna Scott […]
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30 October 2019
Standing down as CEO
After four hugely rewarding years at 360Giving, I have decided it’s time to hand over the reins to someone new. I’ll be leaving the organisation in spring 2020 once a new CEO has been appointed. I have very much enjoyed my time building 360Giving. After a year of incubation at Nesta under the watchful eye […]