Britain's top 1,000 charities ranked by donations. Who raises the most money? | News. Which is Britain's biggest charity? The death of Claire Squires in the London marathon - and subsequent influx of donations to the Samaritans - have drawn attention to the size of Britain's charities. The money is a huge boost to the Samaritans, who raised £6.7m in the latest year available, 2010 - according to this data from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
CAF collects the data by interrogating the Charity Commission database. The figure for each charity is a full year's data - but many organisations have different collecting periods. While some charities have turnovers that would put a major company to shame, others have much more modest means. The biggest charity on this list is the Gavi Alliance - which draws together major international bodies to fund immunsation programmes. The Samaritans are quite far down the list - and well below the Donkey Sanctuary, which received £18.5m - most of its income - in legacy giving from supporter's wills. Data summary Download the data NEW! 99designs. Join Us | Skoll Global Threats Fund. Flu Near You Entrepreneur-in-Residence Flu Near You Entrepreneur-in-Residence The Flu Near You Concept In 2011, the Skoll Global Threats Fund launched a proof of concept to see if it could detect flu outbreaks more quickly by crowd-sourcing self-reported symptoms from volunteers in the general public on a weekly basis.
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The Entrepreneur-in-Residence will contribute to and shape an evolving program. You can download a profile of this position from here. Key Priorities & Areas of Responsibility share. 2012-13 allocations. Funds for 2012-13 Adjusted allocations In March 2013 we announced adjusted allocations of teaching grant for 2012-13 for each university and college that we fund. These allocations for 2012-13 update the initial teaching allocations announced in March 2012 to reflect in-year student numbers submitted in HESES12 or HEIFES12, and will be finalised in 2014 in light of the end-of-year individualised student data for 2012-13. The total HEFCE grant available for the 2012-13 academic year is £5,390 million. Figures in the adjacent chart are correct as of March 2013. Click here to see a full-size version of the pie chart. Initial allocations In March 2012 we announced initial allocations of grant for 2012-13 for each university and college that we fund.
Allocations for 2012-13 were adjusted in March 2013 and will be finalised in 2014 in light of the end-of-year individualised student data for 2012-13. The total HEFCE grant available for the 2012-13 academic year is £5,311 million. Student number control. Www.ims.demokritos.gr/people/tbou/Fraunhofer_SOSTRA_Spin-off-Success_factors.pdf. IP Group signs flagship agreement with The University of Manchester. 26 Feb 2013 IP Group plc, the developer of intellectual property based businesses, is delighted to announce that it has signed a commercialisation agreement with The University of Manchester which will be operated by its technology transfer company, UMI3 Limited. The University of Manchester, a member of the Russell Group, is one of the country’s major research universities.
According to the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the University is rated third in the UK in terms of ‘research power’, behind only Oxford and Cambridge. The University has a long history of innovation, having designed and built the world's first stored-program electronic digital computer as well as being responsible for the birth of ‘aeroacoustics’ (how to minimise sound created in jet engines). Under the terms of the agreement, IP Group will create a Proof of Principle (“PoP”) funding facility for the identification and formation of new spin-out companies. Notes for editors About IP Group Key facts: Cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-01.pdf.
Home - Climate CoLab. Water Crisis Hitting Food, Energy – And Everything Else. Advancing Deserts, Africa, Development & Aid, Energy, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Natural Resources, Peace, Poverty & MDGs, Reframing Rio, United Nations, Water & Sanitation, World - How much water does it take to turn on a light? It took 10,000 litres to make your jeans. Another three big bathtubs of water was needed for your two-eggs-toast-coffee breakfast this morning.
Piped water has made life easier for this Laotian boy, who no longer has to help his parents fetch water from afar. Up to 1.7 billion people face scarcity. Credit: Vannaphone Sitthirath/IPS We are surrounded by an unseen world of water: furniture, houses, cars, roads, buildings – practically everything we use and make needs water. “There is no way to generate energy without water,” said Zafar Adeel, co-chair of the UN-Water Task Force on Water Security and director of the Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Canada. WWF Tackles EU Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, & Climate Policy. Redefining development: a new role for foundations | . Jay Naidoo 15 August 2012 www.alliancemagazine.org I have participated in endless conferences about the business of development. I have walked away more confused than ever by the sophisticated development speak and Powerpoint presentations. How has the global development industry succeeded in reducing the impassioned fight for freedom and human dignity to a search for single-issue solutions, typically technology or market based, that can be packaged neatly into fundable projects?
I think back to our struggle against apartheid in the 1970s. We were triumphant but unrelenting repression smashed our fledgling aspirations. The emphasis on supply-side innovation and business models fails to understand or locate the role of the people. Ten years of working at a global level has shown me the fault lines in the modern system of development assistance. Worse still, recipients desperate for financial support take donor aid knowing that the chances of programme success are minimal. Sspp.proquest.com/archives/vol8iss2/1012-067.pearce.html. Abstract: The task of providing for basic human necessities such as food, water, shelter, and employment is growing as the world’s population continues to expand amid climate destabilization.
One of the greatest challenges to development and innovation is access to relevant knowledge for quick technological dissemination. However, with the rise and application of advanced information technologies there is a great opportunity for knowledge building, community interaction, innovation, and collaboration using various online platforms. This article examines the potential of a novel model to enable innovation for collaborative enterprise, learning, and appropriate technology development on a global scale.
Keyword: innovations, technology transfer, developing countries, databases, experiential education, Intranet Citation: Pearce J., Albritton S., Grant G., Steed G., & Zelenika I. 2012. A new model for enabling innovation in appropriate technology for sustainable development. Introduction M.S. Tech Trends 2013 | The Elements of Postdigital. Download full report Select chapters to download View all videos Deloitte’s annual Technology Trends report examines the ever-evolving landscape of technology put to practical business use. Once again, we’ve selected 10 trends that we believe have the opportunity to impact business over the next 18 to 24 months.
This year’s theme, Elements of postdigital, looks more deeply into the five forces of postdigital enterprise that we introduced last year: analytics, mobile, social, cloud and cyber. We invite you to view the brief three-minute overview video, and explore each of the 10 trends through the links below. Our 2013 trends are grouped into two categories: Disruptors are opportunities that can create sustainable positive disruption in IT capabilities, business operations, and sometimes even business models.
Enablers are technologies in which many CIOs have already invested time and effort, but which warrant another look because of new developments or opportunities. Three Insights on Impact Investing from eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar - GiveSmart.org. In the 1990s Pierre Omidyar forged new ground, both real and virtual, with his online marketplace eBay. When his company went public in 1998, he became an overnight billionaire. Since then, Pierre and his wife, Pam, have been focused on philanthropic pursuits and are breaking new ground again—this time with new models of philanthropy.
Through the Omidyar Network, a “philanthropic investment firm,” Omidyar uses impact investing to help improve the lot of the globe's poorest people. Broadly defined, impact investing means investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns. The Omidyar Network reflects that belief. Consider how you can put all your philanthropic dollars towards impact.
Omidyar believes that philanthropy should support more than a type of funding, and the Omidyar Network is structured to support that belief. Pierre Omidyar takes the tax hit to invest philanthropically in for-profits and nonprofits [Related: Scaling Social Impact.] Pierre Omidyar. “I’ve always found it delightful to push people’s conventional thinking, to be a little contrarian, and to get folks to rethink how they think about the world,” says Pierre Omidyar.
Omidyar’s delight has been the world’s gain: His 1995 start-up, eBay, revolutionized the way people connect with each other and with products they want and need. For Omidyar and his wife, Pam, overnight success through eBay’s 1998 IPO brought with it a pressing sense of responsibility to put their money to good use. Today, the young couple is making good on that responsibility by founding a number of philanthropic organizations, including their foundation-like Omidyar Network, and nonprofits Humanity United and HopeLab. Maintaining an open mind, the Omidyars invest in both nonprofits and for-profits to achieve social impact, believing that both can do a world of good. Www.iza.org/conference_files/EntreRes2011/tamvada_j3400.pdf. The Surprising Way Obama Is Trying to Tackle Climate Change | Climate of Doubt | FRONTLINE. Watch Climate of Doubt, FRONTLINE’s investigation into the massive shift in public opinion on climate change and the groups that shifted the direction of the debate.
When President Obama tried to push for legislation on climate change during his first term, he encountered such fierce political opposition that it quickly became clear Congress wouldn’t be the avenue to reform. But the president says that addressing the issue is still a top priority, and his administration is now looking for new, more quiet ways to tackle climate change, according to Coral Davenport, National Journal‘s energy and environment correspondent. FRONTLINE asked Davenport about the administration’s shift. You recently wrote about how federal agencies are turning to local governments to prepare for climate change. What are they doing, and what’s the impetus for this kind of local outreach? There are two ways to tackle climate change: One is mitigation, [such as] policies that stop emissions, stop carbon. Www.cphcleantech.com/media/1944581/20120604 executive summary_final_v02.pdf. UN Launches New Centre to Accelerate Use of Technology in Tackling Climate Change.
Nairobi, 22 February 2013 - From the latest technical developments in renewable energy to innovative cropping techniques, the role of technology and research in tackling climate change in developing countries is the focus of a new facility launched by the United Nations today. Following a decision at the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, governments meeting this week in Nairobi at the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) confirmed a UNEP-led consortium as the hosts of the Climate Technology Centre. The consortium includes the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and 11 other international reseach and development bodies. The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) aims to speed up the transfer of climate-related technology and expertise to developing countries in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve resilience to changing weather patterns, drought, soil erosion, and other impacts of climate change.
Notes to Editors: Urban responses to climate change: the transport battleground | Guardian Sustainable Business. President of the Institute for Transport and Development Policy in New York, Enrique Peñalosa believes mobility is a political issue. A protected bicycle lane is a symbol that shows a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important to a citizen in a $30,000 car. Photograph: Antonio Olmos While cities only take up 2% of the earth's surface, they account for 50% of the human population, 75% of its energy consumption and 80% of CO2 emissions. How cities respond to the challenges of energy production and emissions reduction is therefore fundamental to the fight against climate change. Speaking at the Urban Age Electric Cities conference in December, Anthony Giddens, former director of the London School of Economics and author of The Politics of Climate Change', argued that "the two great convergent themes of living in the city today are on the one hand, the [dependence on] an electric grid, and the other environmental sustainability.
"The city has to build in resilience. It's a bleak picture. Global venture capital insights and trends report. US and Europe VC fund-raising Source: Dow Jones VentureSource Number of active investors Number of active investors in Chinese and Indian companies Number of active investors in cleantech companies LP outlook on venture industry Numbers may not total 100% due to rounding Source: EY 2010 LP Sentiment survey The venture capital model is an essential source of funding and a catalyst for the innovation, entrepreneurship, job creation and economic growth needed to lead the world economy into recovery. Back to basics, by Bryan Pearce and Dr. As the world begins to emerge from recession, the venture capital industry finds itself in a period of significant change.
Even as the basic metrics of deals and dollars invested improve and the exit environment brightens, the venture capital industry is consolidating, with the number of active investors declining annually and limited partners (LPs) taking a hard look at the track records and prospects of firms seeking to raise new funds. Cleantech gains. Docs/default-document-library/2012_global_forecast.pdf. U.S. venture-capital fundraising has declined, leading to a s. Www.efc.be/programmes_services/resources/Documents/efc_environmental_final.pdf. Projects. Sites.kauffman.org/pdf/poc_centers_01242008.pdf. Success of Cleantech Reflected in Top 10 Winners of Global Cleantech Cluster Association 2012 Later Stage Awards - GCCA.
Success of Cleantech Reflected in Top 10 Winners of Global Cleantech Cluster Association 2012 Later Stage AwardsWinners presenting today at Savannah International Clean Energy Conference, November 13, 2012 Savannah, GA, November 13, 2012 – As renewable energy and clean technology grows in global importance, the winners of the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) Later Stage Award reflect the increasing success of this $163.1 billion global market. The GCCA’s Global Top 10 Winners represent the best of the association’s over 4000 member companies and were recognized on November 12 in Savannah, at a dinner sponsored by Deloitte and McGuire Woods. The GCCA Global Top 10 Winners were judged by 28 cleantech venture capital and private equity investors and serial entrepreneurs, who collectively manage over $3.5 billion in global clean technology investment.
The winning companies will present their technologies in a forum today at the Savannah International Clean Energy Conference. Philanthropy in a climate of change. C.ymcdn.com/sites/www.wingsweb.org/resource/resmgr/files/final_report_v3.pdf. What Is Social Edge? The 11 Most Generous Designers. Clean Energy Alliance - Members. Idealab | Inside the Lab | The WorldHaus Breakthrough Low-Cost Housing System. News. Statistics on Patents. Otd.harvard.edu/resources/guidelines/inventorhandbook/Inventor-Handbook.pdf. Www.tepsie.eu/images/documents/tepsie.d4.1.4.2socialfinanceinstruments.pdf. Katerva – Sustainability – Innovation. Publications. Centre for Challenge Prizes.
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