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	<title>Factary Weblog</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Soliciting Gifts: top law firms give Â£50m</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=165</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=165#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>Fundraising Research</category>
	<category>New Trust Update</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report published today by Factary shows that the top 10 UK law firms donate Â£50m per year to non-profits (charities, arts organisations, universitiesâ€¦)
Key findings in the 130-page report include:
The top 10 UK law firms donated more than Â£5m in cash to charitable causes in the last year; firms give eight times as much in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency, and foundations</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=164</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=164#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>Chris Carnie's Blog</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Carnie has an article published in today&#8217;s La Vanguardia newspaper about the need for transparency in foundations in Spain following recent scandals.
Read the article, in Spanish, here http://bit.ly/HfdC3c.

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		<title>The End of the New Trusts Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=163</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=163#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>Fundraising Research</category>
	<category>New Trust Update</category>
	<category>New Philanthropy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research from Factary reveals that during 2009-10 there was a &#8220;New Trusts Recession&#8221; - four consecutive quarters in which the numbers of newly registered grant-making trusts declined.
That recession is now over. Our latest research paper reveals some of the patterns of grant-making by new trusts.
The research is based on cross-analysis between our New Trust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AU$600m in philanthropy</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=161</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=161#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>Fundraising Research</category>
	<category>Factary Tools</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philanthropy in Australia just became easier to research, thanks to FR&#038;C and Factary.
FR&#038;C (www.fundraisingresearch.com.au), the leading prospect research agency in Australia, has developed a database of public domain information on donors to Australian nonprofits. It’s called Giftsearch; http://fundraisingresearch.com.au/Giftsearch_14.html
Giftsearch currently holds information on 60,000 donations, representing $600m in value. It’s growing, with new records added every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venture Philanthropy hits €1bn</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=160</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=160#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>New Philanthropy</category>
	<category>Chris Carnie's Blog</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was honoured to chair this year&#8217;s annual conference of EVPA, the 141-member association for venture philanthropists in Europe. The conference included a wide range of speakers and new data on venture philanthropy, showing that it has now reached a cumulative €1bn in philanthropic investments.
Martine Godefroid, Managing Director of Factary Europe attended too - and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re Bigger than NASA*&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=157</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=157#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>Factary Tools</category>
	<category>Chris Carnie's Blog</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Factary Phi  - our online, searchable database of philanthropists in the UK -  has now reached 287,472 records and a total of £17 billion in recorded donations. 
(*For comparison, £17 billion is more than the total budget for NASA for 2012, US$18 bn, source www.whitehouse.gov)
Every single record is searchable, and subscribers can see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My (new) Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=153</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=153#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Factary News</category>
	<category>Fundraising Research</category>
	<category>New Trust Update</category>
	<category>New Philanthropy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do philanthropists set up their own grant-making trust or foundation?
We have compiled the research we carry out each month for our New Trust Update report into a briefing paper. In the paper we give detail on the backgrounds of the people who are setting up new grant-making trusts and foundations in the UK, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gift Capacity, the debate continues</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=151</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=151#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fundraising Research</category>
	<category>Event Presentations</category>
	<category>Chris Carnie's Blog</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been having the regular debate on gift capacity. We are researching Mrs Philanthropist, and we ask ourselves, again, how much might she donate to The Good Charity?
Cecilia Hogan, in her excellent “Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits” [Jones and Bartlett, Mass, 2004]  defines capacity as “The financial measure of a prospect’s ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmarks</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=149</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Chris Carnie's Blog</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just restarted using Delicious to record my bookmarks. A selection is here:
http://www.delicious.com/chriscarnie

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		<title>Venture Philanthropy first</title>
		<link>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=148</link>
		<comments>http://www.factary.com/weblog/?p=148#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Carnie</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>New Philanthropy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Carnie&#8217;s presentation at the 2011 UK fundraising conference, the first ever at the conference on venture philanthropy, is available for viewing on the www.prezi.com site here.

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