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From a funder-centric to user-centric social sector

In a powerful new blog, NPC's Tris Lumley argues that the social sector is incentivised to be accountable to funders, not its users, and that this must change. He sees hope in three important trends…
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Listen and Learn

Charities and social purpose organisations working to systematically embed user voice into their planning and development cycle will want to take account of a new guide written by NPC. Explaining how charities can user quantitative…
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‘Nothing about us, without us’

This phrase from the disability rights movement captures perfectly the importance of user involvement: that consulting beneficiaries is, fundamentally, about empowerment and dignity—two things many people feel they lack in our current society. All the charities the Blagrave…
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Listen, Act, Learn. Repeat.

GlobalGiving is the first and largest global crowdfunding community that connects charities, donors and companies in nearly every country around the world. They offer their charities a chance to access the funding, tools, training, and support they need to…
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Young people’s participation – child sexual exploitation services

The Blagrave Trust is proud to be one of the funders of a research project by the Alexi Project into the nature and extent of young people's participation and feedback in child sexual exploitation services. The…
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