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An overview of news, trends and research in the Non Profit industry in the UK:

Bain & Company and EY partner of Social Business Trust Social enterprises strive to provide social outcomes over profit, leveraging business operations to fund projects.
17 December 2015
Arcadis and UN-Habitat extend partnership up to 2017 Design & consultancy firm Arcadis and the UN-Habitat have extended their collaboration, which runs under the name ‘Shelter Programme’, to improve urban quality of life of people worldwide with two mo
17 December 2015
Elixirr consultants cycle to Lapland for ITV Text Santa The Elixirr Foundation, and the firm’s participating staff, are supporting this year’s edition of ITV Text Santa.
16 December 2015
Five lessons charities can learn from business strategy The recent collapse of Kids Company has shocked UK’s charity sector.
23 November 2015
Accenture to equip 6.000 Africans with skills to succeed Accenture has, as part of its ‘Skills to Succeed’ initiative, donated $2.2 million to Plan Netherlands*, in the form of both funds and pro bono services.
20 November 2015
Midlands consultancy Harrison Beale & Owen joins DFK Harrison Beale & Owen has joined DFK International, a not-for-profit association of professional services firms.
07 October 2015
Mace donates 5,000 to outdoor-education charity The Mace Foundation has supported outdoor-education organisation Outward Bound with a donation of £5,000.
31 July 2015
Grant Thornton: Clear charity reporting rebuilds trust Public trust in UK charities and NGOs decreased from 67% in 2014 to 51% this year, with unjustifiable ‘overheads’ – among which executive pay – a leading concern.
21 July 2015
Engage app platform Capita supports vulnerable adults Consulting firm Capita has developed an engage app platform for Fortunatus Housing Solutions, to be used by the housing charity for its newly developed app.
24 June 2015
UK charity sector seeks new funding to fill GOV gap Charities in the UK continue to fight for increasingly decreasing funding, as Government austerity programmes cut vital support to many charities, while at the same time finding the demand on their c
08 June 2015
GoodGym hires Ecorys UK to evaluate the programme Wellness and health charity GoodGym, set up to combine exercising with doing something good for the local UK community, has hired consulting firm Ecorys UK to develop an evaluation framework of the p
05 June 2015
Accenture and Entreculturas equipping 95,000 youth Accenture and Entreculturas Foundation have successfully equipped 95,000 young Latin American people with the skills needed to secure employment or become an entrepreneur.
15 May 2015
Growing wealth thrusting Indian philanthropic sector The number of Indians engaging in philanthropic activity has increased by 100 million between 2009 and 2013, an increase of 14%, finds recent research from Bain & Company.
08 May 2015
Connell Consulting: The transformation of non-profits Third sector organisations are looking for ways to transform and streamline their services in order to survive in the financially pressured world, a report by Connell Consulting shows.
08 April 2015
Bridgespan: Non-profits use 19 management tools With non-profits under increased pressure to perform and with ever dwindling funds, management tools are a way to streamline operations while cutting excesses.
18 March 2015
Ecorys supports evaluation of Better Start initiative Consulting firm Ecorys has been selected to assist in the evaluation of Big Lottery Fund’s A Better Start initiative, set up to improve the life chances of thousands babies in the UK.
06 March 2015
McGladrey raises nearly 1 million dollar for Charities McGladrey recently released the results of its McGladrey Classic golf tournament, which includes a $930,000 windfall for community-based programs that focus on children and families in need. The McGladrey Classic co-run Birdies Fore Love programme
09 January 2015
Non-profit consultancy Aldrich Fundraising established Tobin Aldrich has set up his own consulting firm Aldrich Fundraising.
07 January 2015
US Administration posts for BCG & Scowcroft consultants The US President Obama recently appointed two professionals of consulting firms to key administration posts. Michèle A. Flournoy, Senior Advisor to BCG, and Kevin Nealer, Principal and Partner at The Scowcroft Group, have both bee
15 October 2014
Eden McCallum partners with NGO Save the Children Consulting firm Eden McCallum has added Save the Children to its ‘NGO Partnership’, its firm-wide pro bono programme.
08 October 2014
EY & Booz consultants obtain US Administration posts The US President Obama has recently appointed two professionals of EY and Booz Allen Hamilton to key administration posts. Orlan Boston, a Principal at EY, has been named Member of the Board of Governors of the United Service Organizations and Regi
09 September 2014
BDO: Charities in Scotland under increasing pressure Scotland's charities are coming under increasing financial pressure, concludes a new research from BDO. According to the accounting and consulting firm, the turnover across all Scottish charities rose by just 0.8% last year, wh
01 September 2014
Consulting firms help Ghana with early warning systems Royal HaskoningDHV and HKV have been appointed by UNDP to develop disaster risk and early warning systems for Ghana.
12 August 2014
Dutch consulting firms support Ghana water project A Dutch consortium of two consulting firms and a non-governmental health organisation has been granted the task to develop a long-term water, sanitation and hygiene plan for the Ghana-Netherlands WASH Programme in Ghana. p cla
07 August 2014
McKinsey partner enforces Middle East Quartet The so-called 'Middle East Quartet' has appointed the Dutch Kito de Boer to lead its efforts in boosting Palestine’s economic private-sector investments. De Boer works for McKinsey & Company since 1985 an
30 April 2014
Accenture gives 1.5 million to disaster area Philippines Accenture has donated approximately €1.5 million to the Philippines, in order to support disaster relief and reconstruction efforts in the jaded country. In addition, the international a href="/fir
29 November 2013
Government investigates scandal with foreign aid budget The British government has ordered an emergency audit after The Telegraph revealed that hundreds of millions of foreign aid budget has been spent on expensive consultants. Last year alone more than £500 million was paid to consultants, while the
08 January 2013
Accenture donates 2.5m to African non-profit care foundation Accenture has over the past years donated more than €2.5 million to the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), a nonprofit organization that aims at improving health care in Africa. The donation consists of
14 September 2012
Ecorys evaluates the developmental aid of Norway Ecorys has been awarded a contract by NORAD, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, to evaluate the country’s development cooperation with Afghanistan over the past ten years. This represents the first
18 November 2011
Quarter of development aid budget to expensive consultants Nearly half of the $79 billion that developed countries spend annually on development aid, does not go to the developing countries but to highly paid consultants.
06 July 2006

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