Caroline Fiennes
Director of Giving Evidence: encouraging /enabling charitable *giving* based on sound *evidence*. Wrote acclaimed book, It Ain't What You Give. FT columnist.
Last synced from Twitter 16m ago
Evidence & Gap Maps
See the big picture of evidence in homelessness – what do we know, and what don’t we know?
Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Swings Past Sun
Comet 2I/Borisov is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space — the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. Hubble images capture the comet streaking though our solar system and on its way back to interstellar space. It’s only...
Animal Advocacy Research Fund
We're proud to introduce the Animal Advocacy Research Fund. The purpose of this fund is to support research that contributes to an understanding of effective animal advocacy.
Caroline Fiennes
Animal Charity Evaluators (like GiveWell, but for charities re animal suffering) has a $1m fund to support #research that contributes to understanding of effective animal advocacy(!)
…earchfund.animalcharityevaluators.org
@AnimalCharityEv #charity #philanthropy #impact #eval #advocacy
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A New Look at Impact Evaluation Capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Impact evaluation and other forms of research that have the potential to inform policy decisions are becoming more prominent in sub-Saharan Africa. And while researchers working in their own countries bring contextual knowledge, relationships, and...
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Caroline Fiennes
Wow. There are tons of people in Africa who can run #impact #evaluation for you! This study found 1,520 (!) African researchers who have authored at least one, from 34 African countries.
hewlett.org/library/a-new-…
#research #eval #development #charity #philanthropy
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Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
Director — Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
The deadline for applications is 2 January 2020, 10.30am
The Party Leadership Model predicts a Conservative overall majority
By Andreas Murr and Stephen Fisher. Two years ago Andrew Adonis wrote a piece in Prospect arguing that Labour should ditch Jeremy Corbyn because of the importance of party leadership for electoral …
MPs think personal principles should influence decision making, but the public aren’t so sure
Almost half of MPs believe they should use their personal experiences and principles to make decisions while only 1 in 10 members of the public agree.
Police files on Queen Victoria's suffragette goddaughter to go on display
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was deemed a danger to the state and heavily surveilled
Boris Johnson doesn’t know how many kids were born under his watch
In an interview with the Sunday Times today, Boris Johnson predicted that “Romance will bloom across the whole nation once we get Brexit done”, claiming that “There was [a ...
Caroline Wozniacki announces she will retire after Australian Open
Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki announces she will retire after the Australian Open in January.
Caroline Fiennes
On behalf of Carolines everywhere, thank you @CaroWozniacki for being such a champion 🏆👋🥇
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POST's Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme - Directed Call
POST's Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme - Directed Call
The London Emergencies Trust (LET) is a registered charity and came into being after the terrorist attack on Westminster Bridge in March 2017. | The London Emergencies Trust
Caroline Fiennes
Just learnt:
London has #London Emergencies Trust, @LET_2017, created after the Westminster attack in 2017. It distributes £ to bereaved and injured of terror attacks, and also after Grenfell.
It's mobilised now after the Fishmongers' Hall attack
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Home | smarterKE
Caroline Fiennes
This looks handy:
'A new online platform to connect academics with politicians and civil servants, charities and NGOs, corporates and social enterprises', by @SmarterKE:
smarterke.com
#research #impact #evidence
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Altruism 2.0: How to use science to make charitable acts go further
Effective altruists use evidence and reason to maximise the impact of their kindness. Joshua Howgego follows their lead to see if it can help him do good better
Caroline Fiennes
Long read about #effectivealtruism in - surprise! - @NewScientist (£)
Featuring, ahem, my view that it's mad to obsess about easily-measurable things, and AI. {You go to a township or favella and tell people that AI is the top #philanthropy priority…}
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How mental health experts & patients contribute to a first aid manual for mental health problems
This presentation was recorded for the Virtual #CochraneSantiago Colloquium 2019 How mental health experts and patient representatives contribute to the deve...
Bridge attacker rehabilitation scheme 'untested'
Usman Khan went on counter-terror schemes in prison which have not been evaluated, the BBC finds.
Caroline Fiennes
Oh, so now the lack of decent #evaluation of social programmes is suddenly headline news.
'Officials' say the prog hadn't run long enough to be fully evaluated, so we'll be onto #research methods soon:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-506531…
#impact #eval
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The Life You Can Save Book - Free Download
The Life You Can Save is a nonprofit that inspires and empowers people to take action in the fight against extreme poverty. View our list of best charities for highly effective giving.
Caroline Fiennes
Lovely thing!
"The Life You Can Save" by the amazing @PeterSinger is now available for free(!) as an ebook and audiobook: bit.ly/TLYCSce
Anyone interested in #charity, #philanthropy etc., will learn a ton from it.
Happy #GivingTuesday!
bit.ly/CEonTLYCS
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