External Resources
Giving is driven by intensely personal attitudes. In the digital age are blessed with access to vast amounts of information that can allow us to personalise our giving activities to suit our individual preferences.
On this page we list some of the resources that we have found helpful
Websites
The Centre for Effective Altruism
CEA is a registered UK charity founded by Will McAskill and others to help disseminate the ideas expounded in his excellent book (see below).
Financial Tracking Service – provides data on the current state of funding of international humanitarian projects.
Givewell – US site with short list of charities mainly in the developing world with evidence of impact.
Giving what you can – community of mainly US donors undertaking to give away at least 10% of their wealth.
The Life you can save – Peter Singer’s (see book & TED talk below) website with recommendations for charities with effective programmes.
Books
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference, by William Macaskill
It Ain’t What You Give, It’s The Way That You Give It, by Caroline Fiennes
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, by Peter Singer
TED Talks
The why and how of effective altruism by Peter Singer
Giving away our wealth has been the best thing we’ve done by Bill & Melinda Gates
Advice for Donors
Charities Aid Foundation – the major provider of charity accounts in the UK
The Big Give – the experts on matched giving but they can also help donors search for effective charities.
The Funding Network – hold regular group meetings at which three small charities pitch for funding. Founded by Fred Mulder CBE
The Giving Department – founded by Steve Wickham, acts as several family offices, major grant makers and corporates
Philanthropy impact – Guide to Giving – lots of useful content for donors plus personalised advice if required.
Volunteering
Matchmaking websites for volunteers
Reach volunteering:
UK based site that connects people with at least 3 years professional experience.
Volunteer match:
Site that facilitates micro volunteering.
Universal Giving:
The site to use if you want to travel and volunteer overseas.
Impact analysis
Driving Impact by Impetus Private Equity Foundation
What makes a good charity? by New Philanthropy Capital
Center for Theory of Change – explanation about theory of change.
Please note that we are not currently accepting unsolicited applications for funding as we are concentrating on our existing relationships.
About us
EQ Foundation is a registered charitable institution that has donated over £2,000,000 since 2015 to carefully selected charities and social enterprises. It has also developed two innovative initiatives to help donors discover the most effective charities.
Giving is Great is a free access database of all UK charities with sophisticated analytics to help identify the most effective.
Tythe is a donations platform that makes it simple to make regular donations to a curated list of environmental charities.
See below for further information and details of our grants can be found here
Giving is Great is a website dedicated to making it simpler to identify highly effective charities. In our experience, most people give money reactively, in response to an 'ask' and never really feel comfortable with their decision. So we've looked at some of the principles that work when selecting investments to provide a basis for making better selections. Try it now.
Tythe is a donation platform that allows people to make modest sized, regular donations to a fund of climate action charities that we have analysed and found to be effective. Subscribers benefit from monthly updates on key developments from the charities and are shielded from requests to donate more. Further details here
Ukraine Fund
We have created a fund of highly respected charities that are active within Ukraine but do not benefit from the DEC Appeal. This fund is available for donations via Tythe and initially all donations (up to £1,000 each) will be matched 100% by The EQ Foundation. Further details....
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