Charities
Loading ...Nonprofit Executive Compensation 2009
November 21, 2011Board & Administrator’s 2009 Report on Nonprofit Executive Compensation analyses nonprofit executive compensation in America using several key comparisons, including:
Type of nonprofit organization
Size of the nonprofit organization’s budget
Value of total compensation package
Male/female compensation comparisons
Pay by various administrator titles
You get charts, graphs and tables compiling the data as well as proven strategies designed to boost your [...]
Charities ‘hit by funding cuts’
August 2, 2011More than 2,000 charities across England have had their funding cut or withdrawn altogether by local councils, according to research by the TUC. An anti-cuts campaign produced the findings from more than 250 responses to Freedom of Information requests.
The cuts total more than £10m in the past year, but the final figure could be far higher, [...]
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)The Point?
June 30, 2011Thirty four months since we believed the world of fundraising would change forever, but where are we? We continue to get flashes of insight into economic developments and challenges, but let’s be honest none of us are really any the wiser; the key thing is our ability to accept that things are as they are [...]
Japanese tax reforms encourage future philanthropy
June 22, 2011I received an interesting email today; quite possibly third hand, through the various email forums I subscribe to. It was from the Public Interest Corporation Commission (PICC) in Japan – Japan’s equivalent to the Charity Commission here in the UK. It was a very brief statement by its commissioner, claiming that recent tax reforms in [...]
THINK launches IPI Training to help charities inspire and win new support from major donors and companies
November 25, 2010In response to many clients looking for new ways to sharpen and transform their communications skills, THINK has introduced IPI training; quite simply tailored training courses and coaching on how to Inspire, Persuade and Inform. Communication has always been central to any business and is possibly even more demanding in the not-for-profit sector, but there [...]
Charities, Corporate Fundraising, General Fundraising, High Net Worth Individuals, Strategy
Meningitis Trust launch ‘life saving’ iPhone App
September 2, 2010Yesterday the Meningitis Trust launched the world’s first Meningitis App and THINK Consulting is very proud to have been the team behind developing the app, with our digital services business.
The Trust, which has more experience than any other UK meningitis charity of supporting people whose lives have been destroyed by the disease, is leading the world thanks [...]
Charity reputations are always on the line..
March 23, 2010Way back in 2003, the Scottish voluntary sector struggled with six months of negative media reports about ‘fundraising scandals’ and, as a result, public confidence in charities plummeted. In November, according to a poll in the Herald, one of Scotland’s two national newspapers, 51% of Scots were ‘less likely to give to charity’. The reputation [...]
THINK helps British Waterways debate its future
March 8, 2010THINK Consulting Solutions has been working with British Waterways (BW) to launch a debate about whether a more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable future for the waterways could be achieved by moving the organisation from the public sector to the third sector.
Setting a new course, prepared by Think Consulting, Bates Wells and Braithwaite and Compass Partnership was [...]
State of the Sector survey results published
January 14, 2010Third Sector has started publishing the results of nfpSynergy’s State of the Sector survey, and according the authors there’s some interesting and unexpected findings to be had amongst the data, including:
What effect has the recession had on charities? – 67% say that income has fallen.
How well do charities work with their stakeholders? – just 25% say [...]
Are we doing enough to grow trust?
December 16, 2009While we all know that trust can take years to build up and a moment to destroy, it’s not clear that we take the risk seriously enough. With the onset of Web 2.0, the risks of a scandal achieving a fatal momentum of its own (almost regardless of whether it is true or not) accelerate [...]
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