Making it happen

Once you’ve decided where to focus your giving, you need to choose which charities to support. You also need to work out the best ways of supporting them and make sure you get the right feedback to measure the results.

Finding and choosing charities

You may be considering:

• How do I find charities to fund without being inundated with enquiries?
• How do I know if a charity is doing a good job?
• How do I assess grant applications and what questions should I ask on charity visits?

NPC can help you to find and assess charities that fit with your areas of interest. We can teach you how to analyse charities using our charity analysis framework outlined in our Little Blue Book, and we can analyse charities you are interested in to assess their health and effectiveness.

Supporting charities

You may be considering:

• What size grant should I give?
• Should I give for one year or more?
• How and when do I stop funding a charity?
• How do I monitor grants?
• What kind of feedback should I expect from my grantees?

NPC can teach you the practicalities of grant-making, so you can give away money professionally and efficiently. We can help you to decide what type of funding and support will be most helpful to charities, and we can talk you through what
information you need to monitor charities and how to collect it.

Analysing an international development charity

A trustee of an international development charity, who also supported the charity financially, commissioned NPC to analyse the organisation and advise him on future funding decisions. We analysed the charity’s overall organisational capacity and a specific proposal for funding to scale up activities. Read the full story >