The London Community Foundation (LCF) specialise in supporting community-based organisations focused on tackling complex social problems across the capital. For their 2018 Annual Review LCF worked with the Prospectus design team to produce their first ever Annual Review built on a digital platform.
For our second installment in our digital interview series, we spoke to Chris Wade. Chris spent 13 years with Victim Support where he held several roles including Head of Volunteering, Head of Learning and Development, Regional Manager and Chief Executive of Victim Support Nottinghamshire. Chris is now the Director of Engagement at Motor Neurone Disease Association and is responsible for volunteering, HR and learning. Here he shares his thoughts and experience of digital in the sector.
What does digital really mean? It is complex, constantly evolving and cuts across so many functions in an organisation. It can refer to specific tools and skills, it can also be a strategic focal point for an organisation. To help us to better understand the scale, challenges and opportunities for the beyond profit sector, we are interviewing a range of sector experts on digital.
Chief Executive David Gold sat down with the Chief Executive of FareShare, Lindsay Boswell, to discuss food waste in the UK – what is being done and how are they doing it?
Prospectus is proud to be a certified B Corp since 2015. The B-Corp movement in the UK is an exciting, growing and engaged network of organisations using business for good.
How do you turn data into action? What role does ancestry play in prospect research? Ryan Burdock, Senior Recruitment Consultant at Prospectus, sat down with Jason Briggs to find out the answers to these questions and more.
Earlier this month we were pleased to be able to spend some time with Rebecca Elcome, Head of Events at Ark. Rebecca has enjoyed a successful career spanning several high-profile charities, is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Special Events Forum, and also delivers freelance projects through her company, Coveted Events.
David Gold, Prospectus CEO, interviews Jane Slowey (CEO) and Steve Hillman (Director of Policy and Impact) of the Foyer Federation on Advantaged Thinking, what it means to them and what it means in practice.
For our latest newsletter Prospectus CEO, David Gold, had the real pleasure of interviewing Rachel Whale, Founder and Managing Director of Vanilla and the Founding Director of Charityworks. Inevitably a conversation with a passionate social entrepreneur covered a fair bit of ground in a short hour! Everything from innovation versus plagiarism, gender imbalance in the sector, as well as more personal insight into Rachel and her experience and understanding of talent, homelessness and what it means to make a good social contribution.
Since 2011, I.G. Advisors has supported a wide range of individuals and organisations on their social impact journeys. Carlos is the Founder and CEO of I.G. Advisors and has worked with a wide variety of philanthropists, foundations, companies, charities and social enterprises. Interviewed by Prospectus CEO, David Gold, Carlos answers a range of questions covering data and impact, relationships between funders and organisations, and the value and perception of fundraising – as well as what I.G. Advisors learned from Star Wars.