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This is a guest post by Carin Eisenstein of NPC. Homelessness is a modern crisis and NPC is interested in how philanthropy can be more effective in tackling it. We recently launched a report on the homelessness crisis in the UK and the need for systemic funding. As part of this research, we wanted to understand […]
Guest post by Suraj Vadgama, Founder of Beehive and Product Lead at CAST. As a funder, are you sifting through lots of proposals that aren’t relevant? Or as a fundraiser, do you waste time finding the right grantmaker to apply to? Over the past three years, CAST has worked closely with 360Giving to develop a […]
This post was originally published by NPC. How on earth does anyone know what to fund? That was the question that bothered me and lead to many sleepless nights when I first became a donor. As a new philanthropist, how was I supposed to figure out what other donors are doing and make informed strategic […]
This is a repost from Civil Society Futures, where it was included as part of their final findings report. Philanthropist Fran Perrin, from the Indigo Trust, found it hard to see who else was funding the initiatives she was interested in. She felt she was “giving in the dark” as she couldn’t get the information she […]
This blog was published in 2018. Please visit threesixtygiving.org/data for up to date visualisations and statistics. For #GivingTuesday2018 we are sharing a cool new visualisation by data scientist David Kane. Below he talks through what he’s created, and offers a recipe for making (or commissioning) your own version: The great thing about grantmakers publishing data […]
Data can be a team sport! That was one of the findings at the first Sports Data Expedition, held at London’s City Hall last week. Just like in a team sport, you need people with different strengths and skills to work together to achieve a goal. In our expedition, researchers, coders, storytellers and analysts from […]
It all started with a couple of questions: how can we enhance grantmaking using open data? What can 360Giving do to support data publishers and promote the use of open grants data? To answer, we needed to come up with an interactive, informative and creative idea that would connect the two communities that 360Giving works […]
Guest blog post by Dr. Catherine Walker, Director of The Researchery Foundation Giving Trends 2018 has just been published, showing the latest figures for grantmaking from the top 300 UK foundations. The news is pretty positive: A fourth year of positive growth in grantmaking, which has now hit £3.3 billion in the latest financial year under […]
Thank you to everyone who attended the awards event for our Data Visualisation Challenge Fund. We were delighted with the energy and warmth shared among the 100 of you who joined us in Shoreditch on 21 September 2018. We had invited designers and data journalists to use 360Giving data to develop and visualise responses to key […]
For the first time, those concerned about social issues are able to easily gain insights into who gives grants for different aspects of our lives and in our places. In response to a unique competition run by 360Giving and funded by the Big Lottery, designers, analysts and data journalists from around the world have been […]
Between April and July 2018 we ran a Visualisation Challenge where we asked people to submit their responses to two questions: Who has funded what themes throughout the years? User-led organisations: Who funds them, in what thematic area, how much funding do they receive and what type of organisation are they? The entries had to […]
This blog was written by Rachel Rank, 360Giving and Helen Goulden, CEO of Young Foundation. The blog is cross-posted from the Young Foundation’s website (original can be found here) Patchwork Philanthropy – What can funding and spending data tell us about communities and place? Funders are increasingly ‘turning to place’ as the answer to addressing inequality. This […]
This blog was written by Stefaan Verhulst of The GovLab. The blog is cross-posted from the GovLab’s website (original can be found here). We live in an increasingly quantified world, one where data is driving key decisions. Data is claimed to provide the new competitive advantage for business, while making policy more evidence based. Yet, paradoxically, even as […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]