CAF Campaigns | Supporting the charity sector and working for you

OUR PASSION

We are champions for charity, campaigning to build a better world. Our work influences policy makers to create a positive environment for charities and the people who support them. Working with charities, businesses, donors and governments we are using our knowledge and experience to build a stronger society.

Place-Based giving and National Democracy Week

14 October 2019

As part of National Democracy Week’s mission to increase democratic participation, the Charities Aid Foundation has outlined the role that local government can play in developing place-based giving in their communities.

Our recommendations show how civic leaders can use their unique position to bring together local government, business and donors for public benefit and civic renewal.

Read our Democracy Week briefing

our campaigns

Place-based giving

Philanthropy can transform communities around the UK. How can we better understand and tackle the challenges facing our communities?

Can we build a culture of giving in towns and cities?

Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is a global campaign asking people to give their time, money and voice to charity. We run the UK's Giving Tuesday campaign.

How can I get involved on Giving Tuesday?

Groundwork for Growing Giving Myanmar school unsplash case study

Growing giving around the world

With as many as 2.4 billion people set to join the world’s middle classes by 2030 we want to transform their communities through giving.

How can we create a thriving global civil society?

Future:Good

Learn how technology from Artificial Intelligence to Blockchain will transform charities and become a huge force for good.

How will technology shape the world?

influencing government

We work with governments and all those who are interested in charities to encourage giving, and help charities and social enterprises to flourish. We champion the contribution that charities, donors and volunteers make to society. We are:

Informing and influencing the Government’s Civil Society Strategy
Creating a positive environment for charities
Working with other charities and their supporters to shape the future of giving
Ensuring that metro mayors and regional government promote place-based giving

How we work together

understanding giving

Our research gives us unique insight into charitable giving. We provide free research and analysis that helps to inform charities, companies, donors, policy-makers, researchers and journalists. Our unique UK Giving research and CAF World Giving Index are among the most influential pieces of charity research published annually. For this, and our full suite of research, visit the CAF Research Hub.

latest comment and insight from our blogs

Read our insights into giving and our thoughts on how developments in society and technology can open up new opportunities for doing good.

Our think-tank, Giving Thought, is where we consider the key challenges facing civil society, explore how and why people and companies give, and test radical new ideas that could shape the future of charity. Our Public Affairs blog will keep you up to date with our views.

4 November 2019

Guest blog: Designing a strategy fit for the future
Martin Wilson and Michelle Eaton discuss findings and insights from the foresight project they helped to run at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
18 October 2019

Does Philanthropy Help or Hinder Democracy?
Philanthropy has a complex and long-contested relationship with democracy, which is once again under scrutiny. So how can we ensure that philanthropy is a positive force within our democracy?
8 October 2019

Reaching across the aisle, when 'dancing with the devil' is ok

The summer of 2019 saw the launch of a new think tank in the USA, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. What is noteworthy about this new venture is the collaboration of unlikely bedfellows George Soros and Charles Koch – each famed in their own right as a billionaire philanthropist, but up to now set far apart by their political leanings.
19 September 2019

Guest blog: Trust Issues- what does the rise of deepfakes mean for charities?

Our guest blogger Henry Rowling, co-founder of charity innovation consultancy Flying Cars, discusses the threat posed by deepfakes for trust in charities, and what they could do about it.