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Previous Articles

May 10

Income from investment falls
An overview of research into the impact of the economic downturn on income from investments
Cathy Pharoah, Professor of Charity Funding at Cass Business School

March 10

The real value of strategic thinking
An examination of the importance of long-term strategic planning, particularly in the current economic climate.
Hilary Barnard, Head of Strategy and Change at Cass CCE, and Stella Smith, consultant, Cass CCE

September 09

Boards that really work!
Good Governance is always effective, not just in a crisis.
Ruth Lesirge and Hilary Barnard

"You sort of smell it... that engagement of people."
Quoting Lord David Currie, Fiona Ash guides us towards productive employee engagement
Fiona Ash

The Founder Effect
The power and the perils of a founder's legacy
Julia Lever

Searching for Knowledge?
Making Knowledge Accessible
Denise Fellows

July 09

Recession challenges
Cathy Pharoah and Jenny Harrow examine the impact of the recession on sector finances and the demands and choices facing fundraising charities
Cathy Pharoah, Professor of Charity Funding at Cass Business School

Like strategy for the very first time
To survive and emerge stronger from the current economic climate requires a clear, robust and flexible strategy owned by all those involved in its implementation
Hilary Barnard

April 09

Walk in my shoes with the Outward Bound Trust
Chief Executive's description of an initiative with direct performance impact
Nick Barrett

Restructuring in the recession
Insights into effective and thought-through restructuring
Hilary Barnard and Sharmila Kar

Coaching works
A a group of Cass CCE consultants describe a range of coaching interventions and their individual and organisational impact
Various authors

February 09

Coaching and mentoring
The role and experience of coaching and mentoring
Lesley Pugh

Resisting recession
Some of the ways in which various organisations are working hard to protect existing revenue streams and develop new ones
Julia Lever

Knowledge management
Flourishing knowledge transfer brings dynamism and responsiveness and is a quick and affordable contribution to increased effectiveness
Andrew Forrest

December 08

Recession and charities
The paradoxes of managing in a recession
Jenny Harrow and Cathy Pharoah

October 08

A volunteer's perspective
How often do we consciously seek feedback from our volunteers on their experience of volunteering in our organisation? Do our HR policies and practices adequately include our unremunerated human resource?
Julia Lever

Working in the Cracks
Fractures or Wellbeing
Angela Eden

June 08

The making of a social enterprise called MyBnk
Lily Lapenna

The assumption trap
Denise Fellows

Gap Years for Oldies
Looking at a growing trend for mangers from the commercial sector to take sabbaticals to 'do something more meaningful'
Julia Lever

February 08

Evaluating our impact - reflections from the Consultancy Practice
One of the most important things we do in the way we work with our clients is to reflect regularly during projects whether we are achieving the impact that we planned at the beginning.
Denise Fellows

Improving the performance of the Top Team
One of the key tasks of the chief executive is to build an effective top team that will provide corporate leadership and will ensure the team's decisions are implemented throughout the organisation. In this article, George Levvy examines top team performance, the obstacles faced in team development and how these can be overcome.
George Levvy

November 07

Energised or enervated? How job design may be failing your people.
Your charity may now employ 200 people, but there was a time when it only employed seven. At that stage you didn't require job grading schemes or organisation charts - everyone mucked in and the work was done. As your charity has grown, has it lost some of that spirit?
Andrew Forrest

The business of giving
What is the aim of grantmaking? In most cases, it is to perform a social function or bring about a change in social conditions.
Peter Grant

June 07

Mentoring - a new-fangled fad or a really useful intervention?
Mentoring has been in the news of late, in the public, third and commercial sectors. What is it? Is it really coaching by another name? Is it any use?
Julia Lever

April 07

Is your training effective? Impact Evaluation - the Carousel of Development
Andrew Forrest examines the Carousel of Development, an evaluation model developed for the Work Foundation, which he believes has overcome the shortcomings of other models of evaluation.
Andrew Forrest

Charities Thinking about Social Enterprise: Is It a Good Idea?
Jean Barclay's guide for charities considering social enterprise activities.
Jean Barclay

February 07

Governance: It's not the 'what' it's the 'how'
Julia Lever looks at some of the sector's Governance challenges and discusses how the Centre addresses them with Ruth Lesirge, Visiting Fellow and Head of the Governance Practice within the Centre for Charity Effectiveness.
Julia Lever

Progress and Plans towards enhancing performance and developing talent across the third sector.
Julia Lever talks to Denise Fellows about how the Centre is delivering its mission to increase the effectiveness and achievement of voluntary and community organisations. Denise is Head of Consultancy and Training Services within the Centre for Charity Effectiveness.
Julia Lever