Speeches by NPC staff

 

Passion and impact in philanthropy

Dan Corry, Chief Executive
From the STEP Philanthropy Advice for Private Clients: Global Trends in Giving conference
2 December 2011

'When I think about the philanthropists that come to us at NPC, it seems they often want to be taken on a journey. Sometimes a philanthropist starts with a passion —for instance, one of their family members might have had a particular health problem, or they might feel strongly about their local hospice or they want to give their money to help deprived children have a better education. Then it's quite easy to get started, although difficult to work out exactly what you want to do. But we also work with a lot of philanthropists who start off with a blank sheet of paper, not yet having ‘found’ their passion, and we've gone through the whole journey with them. We help them engage with different sectors, and then suddenly something clicks—and it's incredible how passionate some of them become about things they didn’t know anything about a few years ago'.

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Barriers to transparency: What are we afraid of?

Dan Corry, Chief Executive
From the Bond Annual Conference 2011
3 November 2011

'Transparency is crucial for accountability: it is how we know what we are achieving, it is how we show others the same. And it matters all over the place: in every sector and in every country, whether the sums involved are small or large, so it really ought to be something charities want to do.'

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