Spotlight on CGAP at Strathclyde
Congratulations to the Director of CGAP's programme in Strathclyde, Eleanor Shaw, who is now Chair of Marketing with Strathclyde Business School, and to Jillian Gordon who was awarded her doctorate on 14th November.
Welcome to their new PhD student Martin Gannon who recently joined the team. The draft title for his doctoral thesis topic is 'Critically analysing the influenced and dynamics of philanthropic family foundations and understanding the motivations of key decision makers within these groups.'

Research by Spoke 1 in Strathclyde focuses on the history and emergence of entrepreneurial philanthropy, taking an international perspective, and exploring its challenges and appeal for new generations of philanthropists.

 

New research
Family Foundation Giving Trends 2011
The latest report by Cathy Pharoah with Charles Keidan and Jillian Gordon was launched on 14 November with leading philanthropists including Nigel Doughty, Sir Tom Hunter, Tom Hughes-Hallett and Trevor Pears.
 

Panel members Sir Tom Hunter and Trevor Pears

This year’s report updates league tables of the largest UK family foundations measured by annual charitable spending, and sets out compelling case examples of the influences, motivations and strategies of large and small family foundations, based on interviews with philanthropists and funders.
The report, launch photos and press coverage are available from the CGAP website

New working paper
New working paper by Ian Mocroft analyses government spending on the voluntary sector for the years 2004-05 to 2008-09. The paper's findings suggest that the voluntary sectors in Wales, Scotland and N Ireland are comparatively well-funded by government compared with the UK average, and would be particularly vulnerable to any cuts in government expenditure.
Read Working paper 2: Government expenditure on the voluntary sector in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (pdf)
 

CGAP News
Keynote lecture
Prof Eleanor Shaw provided a keynote lecture on 4th November to the Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium-Size Enterprises and Family Firms at the University “Pablo de Olavide” from Sevilla. Eleanor's talk was titled 'Entrepreneurial Philanthropy and the Role of Family Firms.'

CGAP at ARNOVA
CGAP researchers presented a number of papers at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) in Toronto, Canada. These included ‘Community Foundations as Community Leaders? Comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom’ by Susan Phillips, Tobias Jung and Jenny Harrow which provided some early insights into their ongoing comparative work on community foundations in the two countries, and Beth Breeze’s ‘How donors choose charities’.
Tobias Jung, Susan Phillips and Jenny Harrow also hosted a well-received colloquium based on the ongoing preparation of a forthcoming Companion to Philanthropy which they are compiling and editing, to be published by Routledge. The colloquium brought together contributing authors and conference participants for an international discussion on key topics, emerging themes and trajectories, as well as opportunities and challenges for philanthropy. Read the conference blog

PMR special issue on philanthropy and public policy
The special issue is now available and includes an editorial entitled ‘Philanthropy is Dead; Long Live Philanthropy?’ by Jenny Harrow & Tobias Jung
Read PMR at Taylor and Francis online

ESRC Festival of Social Science
As part of this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, Tobias Jung and Jenny Harrow organised a roundtable discussion on ‘Co-producing research: working together or falling apart?’ at Cass Business School on 2nd November. The session brought together representatives from academia and the third sector to consider the practical, methodological and ethical issues of joint academic-voluntary sector research. Jan Fishwick (PACT - Parents and Children Together), Jim Clifford (Baker Tilly), Jeanie Scott (Arts & Business Scotland) and Cathy Pharoah (CGAP) provided a background for the discussion by talking about their own experiences of research co-production. In the following discussion, key themes that were addressed included the mutual benefits of a co-production approach, the question of who sets and shapes the research question(s), the handling of sensitive results and the challenges of competing agendas and interference. A report summarising the presentations and discussions will be published by CGAP in January, and available to download from the CGAP website.

CGAP in the sector press
Cathy Pharoah reviews 'Early Interventions: An Economic Approach to Charitable Giving', a new report by New Philanthropy Capital and supported by Barclay's Wealth, in this Charity Times article (pdf)
Beth Breeze's latest Third Sector article looks at the role of academic research in charitable giving. Read 'We can't provide sure-fire donors'
Also read Cathy Pharoah's monthly Third Sector column 'The charity 'gift' is tarnished unless we put the emphasis back on recipients' and 'Tale of two halves - The richest 10 per cent divide into givers and non-givers'

The Routledge Companion on Philanthropy
The Routledge Companion to Philanthropy which is being edited by CGAP’s Jenny Harrow, Tobias Jung and Susan Phillips is due to be published in July 2013. The book will provide the first international, critical assessment of the history, recent developments and emerging challenges in philanthropy. Read more (pdf)
 

Events
28th November Researchers in Fundraising conference Beth Breeze is presenting her research on ‘How donors choose charities’

1-3 December Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference, The New Zealand Social Innovation, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. CGAP’s Eleanor Shaw is a keynote speaker and will speak on entrepreneurial philanthropy and social innovation.

6 December Raising Funds from the Rich 2011 (pdf) Beth Breeze is presenting her research on ‘How donors choose charities’  
 

Around Philanthropy
Global Grantmaking
Research by Cathy Pharoah for The Nuffield Foundation, The Baring Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation has found that UK foundations gave an estimated £290 million to international development and related causes in 2009/10. The new report will be published in December and will update Going Global which was published in 2007. 
The press release (pdf) is now available and the report will be available from the CGAP website in December.

Podcast
Listen to Professor Hugh Cunningham’s fantastic talk on 'The Birth of Philanthropy', which is now available as a podcast on the VAHS website
Hugh will be presenting a Radio 4 programme on the History of Philanthropy in the run-up to Christmas. Tune into Radio 4 on Monday 12th December at 8pm for ‘How new is the new philanthropy?’

Legacy 10
Legacy 10, the campaign to encourage more people to leave money to charity in their wills, was launched on 2 November.
Visit the Legacy 10 website and read the launch press release (pdf).