New work focusing on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge reveals very brief shelf life of such viral campaigns, and suggests the nature of ‘virality’ and social tipping points themselves may be a stumbling block to deeper engagement with social issues that campaigns aim to promote.
Shana Cohen and colleagues from the Woolf Institute argue that the political left in Europe should look to the local cooperation across religious and cultural divisions that is already going on across the continent.
An individual’s likelihood to donate to charity – and the amount they donate – depends on whether they feel superior or inferior to others, which has implications for charity advertising strategies, according to new study co-authored at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Shana Cohen (Woolf Institute) discusses the anti-advocacy clause in government contracts that means charities will no longer be able to use public money for lobbying activities.
Charities want your time and not just your money: new study identifies factors that lessen ‘time aversion’ in charitable giving.
Some leaders in the third sector are being paid more than their counterparts in the private sector. Is this an appropriate recognition of the challenge or does it ‘bring the sector into disrepute’?
Major Phil Packer MBE will today walk eight miles in Cambridge as part of his BRIT 2012 Challenge. This challenge, which is fundraising for the British Inspiration Trust, will see Packer walk 2012 miles across the country this year.
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