Accessible Guides to Giving: Give Differently, Give Together, Evaluation

Give Differently: A How to Guide to Philanthropy (Written In Association With Barclays Wealth)

Our quick, savvy, articulate and fun guide to achieving what you want when you give. It aims to arm everyone who picks it up with the information and skills to integrate giving into their lives, to contribute to the causes they really care about and to make it a fulfilling experience.

The book is written in a clear and fresh style, with appealing design. This is not an academic treatise or a general introduction to methods of effective giving, but a hands-on guide (written in association with Barclays Wealth) to help everyone successfully navigate the non profit world. It draws on the established skills of the professionals at the Institute for Philanthropy who spend their working lives supporting all sorts of donors, from ultra high net worth individuals to secondary school pupils.

The book endorses the idea of strategic philanthropy in the mainstream. Whether you give £50 or £50,000, there are ways to give that can make the experience of donating to charity more satisfying, effective and efficient. When people are given the skills, knowledge and networks they can make an improved impact on the issues they care about. Give Differently is a distillation of this philosophy. Giving to charity is generally an emotional and personal impulse - but its execution, though coming from the heart, needn't forget the head.

Give Differently, in a series of sixteen short chapters, outlines each of the key areas that you'll need to consider when going about your giving: from "Where Can You Find the Right Charity for You" and "How to Give Tax Efficiently", to "Giving Time" and "Setting Up a Trust or Foundation".

Scattered throughout the book are facts and quotations from all sorts of people engaged in strategic philanthropy: from the night porter to the international footballer, the broadcaster to the banker.

The book encourages its readership to give with confidence. It can be flicked through in three minutes, or studied more deeply for thirty. If the latter, it feels like sitting down for half an hour with a leading philanthropy professional sharing his or her ideas on best practice.

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Give Together

Giving circles are a way of combining talents, assets and knowledge to make giving enjoyable, more effective and much more rewarding. Circles of friends or colleagues come together to make the most of their gifts by pooling contributions and sharing decisions on how best to allocate their funds.

Giving circles and networks exist all over the world, and in a surprising variety of forms. Many fund in countries other than that in which the circle is based; some are international themselves, with members spread out over different continents, others give to their own local communities or exist to support a special aim like promoting girls' education.

Giving circles are powerful engines of change, but they also give those taking part an enormous sense of satisfaction and achievement. Give Together describes several well-tested versions and sets out the building blocks for creating or being part of a giving group yourself.philanthropists and their advisors on how to successfully engage the next generation in family philanthropy.

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Evaluation: A Guide

To make effective change we need a way to measure whether what we have done has made a positive difference. If we don't do that, we run the risk of showering a problem with "solutions" that fail to bring about the change we are trying to make. This publication - Evaluation: A Guide - has been developed to help (i) donors, who need to make sure that the funds they invest are achieving what they set out to do and (ii) organisations carrying out programmes, to illustrate evaluation methods that will be useful for them and their donors alike.