High Net Worth Individuals
Loading ...The Celebrity Foundation Directory
March 1, 2010The Foundation Center in America recently published a celebrity foundation directory detailing more than 1,600 foundations started by “VIPs in the fields of business, entertainment, politics, and sports”. Through their private foundations, many notable individuals have made significant contributions to charities and it’s a trend that will only increase in years to come as it’s a [...]
Global rich lists
February 18, 2010Having compiled a guide to the various rich lists in the UK, I thought I’d turn my attention further afield and put together a guide to global rich lists. This page is intended to be a ‘guide’ to global rich lists and is not a full listing of every rich list available. The reason for [...]
Cross-border Philanthropy in Europe
February 4, 2010I came across a blog recently from Guidestar International which was commenting on a conference held in December last year at the Academy of European Law concerning cross-border philanthropy in Europe. For a long time now, national barriers and complicated legal and fiscal frameworks across Europe have not only provided little incentive for donors to give to other [...]
High Net Worth Individuals, Individual Giving, Philanthropy, Trusts & Foundations
UK Rich Lists
January 18, 2010This is intended to be a fairly comprehensive listing of known rich lists available for people in the UK. It’s an updated version from the one found on the THINK Resource website. I’ll be updating the global rich lists very soon, so keep an eye out for that. If you know of any other useful [...]
Arabian Business Rich List 2009
December 21, 2009Arabianbusiness.com has published its business rich list for 2009 which sees Prince Alwaleed topping the list for the sixth consecutive year, with a fortune of exactly $18bn, almost a billion dollars more than a year ago. Interestingly, and unlike most other rich lists, the figure above has been confirmed by HRH’s private office in Riyadh [...]
Wealth Intelligence Digest: UK Millionaires
December 9, 2009Prospecting for Gold has just published the first of a series of wealth intelligence digests aimed at providing further insight into some of the most widely discussed questions about wealth. In this first edition, Prospecting for Gold draws on the information held in its largest database of liquid asset wealth ‘The Wealth Intelligence Database’ and other [...]
Who’s Who 2010
December 7, 2009Almost 1,000 new entries have made it into the 162nd Who’s Who big red book, which celebrates people who have both “reached the pinnacle of excellence in their field” and “demonstrated lasting significance”. The book includes more than 33,000 entries giving biographical information on a whole host of UK celebrities, business people and sports stars. [...]
Coutts Million Pound Donors Report 2009
November 17, 2009In only the second ever Million Pound Donors Report, Coutts (in association with the Centre for Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Social Justice at the University of Kent) have published this year’s report which looks at 189 donations of at least £1 million that were made by UK donors or to UK charities in 2007/08. With a combined value [...]
New High Net Worth Prospecting Tool Launched
October 14, 2009WealthEngine, the American prospect research and qualification product specialist, has announced the release of Prospect Generator, a new searchable database consisting of more than 7 million high net worth individuals. The database provides data on individuals’ real estate holdings, stock transactions, income, business associations, board affiliations, boat and/or airplane ownership, charitable interests [...]
Calculating an individual’s giving capacity
September 24, 2009In the past few weeks, there’s been an interesting debate sparked off on the Prospect Research UK forum, regarding calculating an individual’s capacity to give. Also known as the holy grail, present your major gift fundraisers’ with a specific number and you can be sure to be on their Christmas card list (for this year [...]
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