It’s likely you’ll have an elements of business and philanthropic objectives in your giving – defining the right focus is important in ensuring you can achieve these. Some of your considerations may include:
How do we learn more about the issues?
How can we leverage our business expertise?
Can we visit charities to see their work first-hand (and take staff on these trips)?
Changing lives
NPC has helped one company to distribute more than £4m over five years, funding 28 organisations across the UK with significant and measurable impact. By encouraging the company to focus on small local community organisations, to provide unrestricted funding on a long-term basis and to contribute non-financial resources, such as workshops for grantees, NPC estimates the company has directly changed the lives of 28,000 people in the last five years.