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Charity recommendations

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Community

Child abuse

Not seen and not heard - a guide for donors and funders (2007)

Community organisations

Local action changing lives - Community organisations tackling poverty and social exclusion (2004)

Divided communities

Side by side - Young people in divided communities (2004)

Domestic violence

Charity begins at home - Domestic violence (2003)

Financial exclusion

Short changed - Financial exclusion (2008)

Homelessness

Lost property - Tackling homelessness in the UK (2008)

Older people

Prisoners and ex-prisoners

Inside and out - People in prison and life after release (2005)

Review of a corporate's giving

Trading for the future - A five-year review of the work of the Execution Charitable Trust and New Philanthropy Capital (2007)

Refugees and asylum seekers

Violence against women

Hard knock life- Violence against women (2008)

Education

Careers guidance

What next? - Careers education and guidance for young people (2005)

Education overview

On your marks - Young people in education (2006)

Literacy

Read on - Literacy skills of young people (2007)

Mentoring

Lean on me - Mentoring for young people at risk (2007)

Out of school hours activities

After the bell - Out of school hours activities for children and young people (2007)

Special educational needs

Making sense of SEN - Special educational needs (2004)

Truancy & exclusion

School's out? - Truancy & exclusion (2005)
Misspent youth - The costs of truancy and exclusion (2007)

Health and disability

Autism

A life less ordinary - Autism, a guide for donors and funders (2007)

Mental health of children and young people

Heads up - Mental health of children and young people (2008)

Children with terminal conditions

Valuing short lives - Children with terminal conditions and their families (2005)

Cancer

The hidden assassin - Cancer in the UK (2004)

Disabled children

Ordinary lives - Disabled children and their families (2005)
What price an ordinary life? - Financial costs and benefits of supporting disabled children and their families (2007)

HIV/AIDS in Africa

HIV/AIDS in Africa - A brief overview of the global context (2005)

HIV/AIDS in Central Africa

Out of the shadows - HIV/AIDS in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda (2005)

HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Rhetoric to action - HIV/AIDS in South Africa (2003)

Mental health

Don't mind me - Adults with mental health problems (2006)

Palliative care

Caring about dying - Palliative care and support for the terminally ill (2004)

Environment

Environment overview

Green philanthropy - Funding charitable solutions to environment problems (2007)

International

Overview of international giving

Philanthropists without borders - Supporting charities in developing countries (2008)

International development funding

Going global - A review of international development funding by UK trusts and foundations (2007)

Other

Charity analysis

Funding success - NPC's approach to analysing charities (2005)

English charities' reporting costs

Turning the tables in England- Putting English charities in control of reporting (2008)

Full cost recovery

Full cost recovery - A guide and toolkit on cost allocation (2004)

Fundraising events

Just the ticket - Understanding charity fundraising events (2003)

Measuring children's well-being

On the bright side - Developing a questionnaire for charities to measure children's well-being (2008)

Music to change lives

Striking a chord - Using music to change lives (2006)

Philanthropy advice

Advice needed - the opportunities and challenges in philanthropy for ultra high net worth individuals and family offices (2007)

Philanthropy advice - the role of wealth advisors

More advice needed - the role of wealth advisors in offering philanthropy services to high-net-worth clients (2008)

Review of a corporate's giving

Trading for the future - A five-year review of the work of the Execution Charitable Trust and New Philanthropy Capital (2007)

Risks in public contracts

Surer funding - improving government funding of the voluntary sector (2004)

Scottish charities' reporting costs

Turning the tables - Putting Scottish charities in control of reporting (2008)

SROI of a social enterprise in Scotland

Valuing potential - An SROI analysis on Columba 1400 (2008)

Understanding and allocating costs

Funding our future II - A manual to understand and allocate costs (2002)

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