Research - understanding giving
Welcome to the pages of CAF’s Research team. We have been known
for our active research programme for over 30 years, and we focus
on investigating and understanding charitable giving and
philanthropy, and sharing this as widely as possible.
We aim to provide our research and analysis to the UK charitable
sector and beyond in publications and press releases, to inform the
decisions of charities, companies, donors, policy-makers,
researchers and journalists in the UK and internationally.
All of our research publications are available from our Publications
page, the majority of which are free to download, and some are
paper publications which we charge a small fee for.
If you would like to receive an update when we release a new
report, please register for our Research
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countries outside of the UK.
Here is a selection of our most recent work:
How to Connect with Donors
This report presents the findings of a survey conducted by CAF
Research, into what the general public and CAF individual customers
think charities could do differently to weather the recession.
The CAF Disaster
Monitor
View trends in the public’s giving to disaster appeals, from
2004 to the 2010 Haiti disaster.
UK Giving
2009
This survey provides the latest research on individuals' giving
to charity – how much is given, and who the donors are. Now with
three complementary papers on the impact of the recession on
giving, the impact of inflation on giving, and why different
surveys of giving can report different findings.
This international survey provides research on individuals'
giving to charity and social contribution in the BRIC nations –
Brazil, Russia, India and China
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