Showing posts with label third sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label third sector. Show all posts
Saturday, 6 May 2017

Are there too many VCS organisations?

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OK it's the USA but Aaron Renn hits a chord with me: When I look around older cities, I frequently see that they’ve got a veritable arm...
Friday, 29 May 2015

Everything that's wrong with lottery funding - in one quotation

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**** The quote is from a chap called Henry Kippin who works for an organisation called Collaborate CIC (who do something very important aro...
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Thursday, 20 October 2011

Oh no, we're not lobbyists...say lobbyists for the 'third sector'

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**** Acevo and NCVO (see how I slip so sweetly into the acronyms of lobbying - the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary organisati...
Monday, 26 September 2011

Charity isn't independent so long as it takes the government's cash...

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**** It may be the effect of opposition but Labour folk are keen to see the "third sector" distance itself from government. Here...
Thursday, 14 July 2011

Why doesn't the "voluntary sector" want volunteers?

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**** Yesterday I went to a particularly untidy briefing on the changes and developments within the health service. Amongst general moani...
Thursday, 21 April 2011

Take the King's shilling and you dance to the King's tune

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The Directory of Social Change are in a funk about the conditions attached to contracts for the Office for Civil Society's 'Strateg...
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Thursday, 3 February 2011

Accumulation, earnings, proceeds, return, surplus, yield....thoughts on 'not-for-profit'

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**** There's no doubt that the term "not-for-profit" is one of the most annoying phrases - used mostly to enable the organis...
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Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Don't believe everything the "Community Sector Coalition" tell you - especially when its members don't do much community work!

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I stumbled across a bizarre critique of Big Society from something called the "Community Sector Coalition" . For a moment I thoug...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Let me introduce you to real social enterprises

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The world seems full of folk claiming that “social enterprise” is the way of the future. And, in doing so implying that good old-fashioned ...
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