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Philanthropy in 2013 - can anyone play?
Huffington Post, 19 Feb 2013
Mark Greer, Philanthropy Director at UK Community Foundations, explains how the Beacon Awards celebrate and promote philanthropy. The 2013 Beacon Fellows demonstrate that good philanthropy is targeted at a clearly defined cause, and can also be ambitious and experimental.
Paralympic Star Jonnie Peacock endorses Evening Standard’s Dispossessed Fund
London Evening Standard, 29 November 2012
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The Dispossessed Fund: £1 million more to change Londoners’ lives
Evening Standard, 17 July 2012
The Evening Standard’s Dispossessed Fund is making another £1 million gift to London.
The money will tackle poverty in almost every borough by boosting the work of 66 grassroots groups who help the city’s poorest people.
It is the second time this year the fund has awarded £1 million and it has been made possible by Sport Relief. David Cameron, who has followed the fund from its launch and who last year met people whose lives had been turned around by it, said: “I am delighted that another £1 million is being distributed to great charities that will transform the lives of more people.”
It comes amid soaring youth unemployment and cutbacks in the charitable sector.
London Evening Standard Dispossessed campaign ‘gave voice to the voiceless’
Evening Standard, 5 July 2012
The Evening Standard was honoured with a special prize at the Centre for Social Justice Awards 2012.
The paper’s Dispossessed campaign was praised by judges for embodying “journalism at its very best”. It had “changed the debate about poverty in London, sparked unparalleled action and given a voice to the voiceless”, they said.
The awards celebrate the UK’s most effective grassroots poverty-fighting charities and social enterprises, and the Standard’s prize was given “in recognition of unprecedented and pioneering social change” by a newspaper.
CFN manages the fund on behalf of the Evening Standard.
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