Resources
Information and inspiration
Since its foundation in 2004, Cass CCE has amassed and maintained a substantial archive of articles, reports and papers. We also release a quarterly e-newsletter and monthly thought pieces full of news and views. Between them, these resources act as an essential and stimulating resource for anyone involved with, or interested in, the charity and community sectors.
To practise what we preach - an exploratory survey of values within charities
News release 14 February 2012
With many charities relying increasingly on volunteers to maintain their level and quality of service to their beneficiaries, more work is needed to make volunteers feel involved in shaping the values of the organisations they work for. Organisational values are used effectively in day to day work, yet over a third of charities do not involve volunteers in any stage of value development.
These are some of the findings of an exploratory practitioner based survey into the use of organisational values within UK based charities, carried out by Visiting Fellows of the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School (Cass CCE). The report, entitled "To practise what we preach - an exploratory survey of values within charities", looks at whether published values are used effectively by charities and whether organisations involve staff, beneficiaries and volunteers in drafting them.
Overall the results show alignment between organisational values and use. Over 80% of organisations said that their employees had discussions about how they use values in day to day work. Over 70% that they were discussed regularly by the senior team. The survey identified a wide range of values in use, the most common being 'collaborate'; 'respect'; 'compassionate'; 'excellence'; 'professional' and 'creative'.
New Research from Cass CCE
A staged research process began in 2008, with field research completed in 2009/2011. The Art of Refusal: The Experiences of Grant Makers and Grant Seekers sets out the full research process and findings. The Art of Grant Refusal: Promising Practice for Grant Makers and Grant Seekers, presents the insights and practice possibilities and approaches, distilled from grant seeker and grant maker respondents, as promising practice and learning action points.
These reports have now been published by the Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School. The project was carried out by a team of researchers from the Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness who studied more than 100 grant making organisations and 40 grant seeking organisations.
Strategic Planning Healthcheck
The Strategic Planning Healthcheck is designed as preparation for a course for Board members, the Chief Executive and senior managers, developed by Cass CCE for ACEVO. It will be of interest to anyone thinking about improving their approach to strategy development and implementation as it encourages conversation between board and staff about roles, processes and the value added by the organisation's strategy.
Strategic Planning Healthcheck
Sink or Swim: Towards a 21st century community sector by Professor Jenny Harrow and Mariana Bogdanova
A report commissioned by bassac on the growth, achievements and implications of working through clusters in the Voluntary and Community Sector. Using literature studies and case studies of actual cluster activities, this report reviews the growth, development and future support needs of 'clustering' of groups of voluntary and community organisations (VCOs), working collaboratively to strengthen their infrastructures.
bassac, July 2006
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