Corner Stones
Cathy Pharoah and Mark Pincher look at how grant-making trusts and foundations deploy their financial support...
Charitable grant-making trusts and foundations are in the hugely privileged – yet challenging – position of spending more than £3bn of donors’ funds annually. Although highly independent, trusts have become increasingly concerned about how to use these funds in the most effective way. The allocation of their funding is not collectively decided. Even though trusts are influenced by each other’s decisions, their collective impact is largely the result of thousands of individual grants, made by thousands of different decision-makers.
Author: Mark Pincher
Mark Pincher is data editor and development manager for Caritas Data.
Author: Cathy Pharoah
Cathy Pharoah is co-director of the ESRC Research Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) at Cass Business School.
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