CAF Campaigns | Supporting the charity sector and working for you

OUR PASSION

We are champions for charity, campaigning for a better world. We work to influence government policy makers and create a positive environment for charities and the people who support them. We lead on the global Giving Tuesday campaign for the UK. Our work with local councils and community groups is Growing Local Giving and our Groundwork for Global Giving campaign is building a stronger civil society across the world. Our Future:Good campaign aims to ensure new technologies and social trends have a positive impact on the future giving.

our campaigns

Place-based giving

We are campaigning to grow giving in local communities, reconnecting people with places and spaces. We aim to bring in a new age of civic philanthropy, helping our towns and cities to thrive.

Join us building 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?

Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

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.

27 February 2019

Do androids dream of electric donkey sanctuaries?
What happens when you ask an AI bot to come up with charity names? Through a light-hearted experiment, Rhodri Davies shows that even the smallest charities can play with AI bots without needing specialist knowledge or breaking the bank. This article first appeared in Charity Digital News.
15 February 2019

The role of philanthropy for the SDGs is not what you expect

What will philanthropy do to get the world closer to the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030?
14 February 2019

What we learnt from Parliament’s debate on supporting charities and volunteers
On 13 February 2019, there was a general debate in the House of Commons on ‘Connecting communities by supporting charities and volunteers’. So what did MP's say during this important debate? Here's our round-up.
1 February 2019

Taxing Questions: What do Rutger Bregman's Davos Criticisms Mean for Philanthropy?
Historian Rutger Bregman recently went viral for calling on the world's elite to "stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes" at this year's World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. But what do his criticisms mean for philanthropy more widely?