The Innovation in Giving Fund is a £10m fund established by the Office for Civil Society and NESTA looking to support ideas with the potential to deliver a significant increase in the giving and exchange of time, assets, skills, resources and money. Follow all the latest news from the Fund here.
Part two of Rachel Botsman's blog on building successful Collaborative Consumption platforms. The first blog, Critical mass and scale, can be read here.
23.05.2012Many Collaborative Consumption ideas are pioneering new spaces, and changing users’ behaviour in some shape or form so their biggest initial barrier is typically inertia.
17.05.2012We've announced the first 15 organisations to be funded through the Innovation in Giving Fund.
15.02.2012Margaret Mead, the celebrated cultural anthropologist once said that "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever did". It's a quote that has probably caused a lot of heated arguments in pubs. But in the internet age, I wondered whether global connectivity has now finally put this assertion to bed, and in particular, the potential of crowd-funding to change the world with the help of hundreds or thousands of supporters.
01.11.2011Last Friday saw the close of the first round of applications for the Innovation in Giving Fund - a £10m fund established by the Office for Civil Society and NESTA - to invest in new ideas with the potential to bring about a significant uplift in giving and exchange of time, assets, skills, resources and money to achieve social goals.
18.10.2011
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