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Sustainable Business Blog: January 2010
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Thursday, 14 January 2010. Getting to know our members, networking and great introductions. Something that I quite frequently find frustrating is that my job at ACEVO. And not stuck out on a branch. A couple of other very interesting things happened last night, all due to the great power of networking. I look on in awe and slight jealousy when I see some colleagues work through a room like they did last night. Stephen must be a grand master at it by now. Second, I had a call from Ben Brabyn. Strategic Pa...
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ImpACT Coalition: Building a great reputation
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Monday, 29 November 2010. Building a great reputation. How do you create a great reputation? Is it simply the case that great reputations follow from great work? We must address stakeholder concerns wherever possible. We tend to get pre-occupied tinkering with the tone and structure of key messages while neglecting to engage stakeholders on issues ...
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ImpACT Coalition: November 2010
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Monday, 29 November 2010. Building a great reputation. How do you create a great reputation? Is it simply the case that great reputations follow from great work? We must address stakeholder concerns wherever possible. We tend to get pre-occupied tinkering with the tone and structure of key messages while neglecting to engage stakeholders on issues ...
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Sustainable Business Blog: November 2009
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Monday, 16 November 2009. CSRn't - fixing a broken agenda. 9 months ago, I began working for ACEVO, the association of chief executives of voluntary organisations. I head up the commercial partnerships department. This means I manage our relationships with around 100 businesses. For an insight on how we operate with our friends in Whitehall. The conversation went thus: "we've done a great deal to fundamentally change the architecture of the third sector's relationship with government. we've become go...
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ImpACT Coalition: July 2010
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Thursday, 29 July 2010. How much should charities care about transparency? The ImpACT Coalition is all about encouraging charities to become more transparent to their stakeholders. But how seriously should charities take transparency? And if you do get serious about transparency—signing up to the ImpACT Coalition’s Transparency Manifesto. There is also...
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ImpACT Coalition: March 2011
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Monday, 7 March 2011. Monitoring and evaluation.we're in it together. This approach can lead to vital information being overlooked, and it can have a knock-on effect on the services we provide. WRVS’s project to capture what is important illustrates this point perfectly. Until two years ago WRVS measured the effectiveness of its work largely by measuri...
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ImpACT Coalition: How much should charities care about transparency?
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Thursday, 29 July 2010. How much should charities care about transparency? The ImpACT Coalition is all about encouraging charities to become more transparent to their stakeholders. But how seriously should charities take transparency? And if you do get serious about transparency—signing up to the ImpACT Coalition’s Transparency Manifesto. There is also...
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ImpACT Coalition: May 2010
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Monday, 17 May 2010. Being the change we want to see. The ImpACT coalition is shortly to launch its transparency and accountability manifesto, calling on leaders across the sector to get serious about the commitment to being honest and open about our business and how we operate. Wednesday, 5 May 2010. In April I spend a couple of weeks in the US attend...
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ImpACT Coalition: June 2010
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Wednesday, 9 June 2010. Does your impact have impact? Next is the amount of time a person will spend reading about the impact your organisation has made. At the risk of appearing to slide into an infinite regress, you have to be aware of how much of an impact your impact is making. What do I mean? Section of their website in every email a Room to Read ...
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ImpACT Coalition: March 2010
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The ImpACT Coalition exists to improve accountability, clarity and transparency (ImpACT) and to increase public understanding of charities and their work. Friday, 5 March 2010. The third sector needs a dose of cautious optimism. What do you feel when you hear the words accountability and transparency? But what are we really afraid of? I think it breaks down into two broad concerns: one internal to the organisation and the other external. Firstly, to make an organisation more transparent one must revi...
