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Press release: Collapse in charity provision looms at moment of greatest need

58% of charities to cut back services as coronavirus set to cost sector 60,000 jobs. The £10 billion charity funding gap created by coronavirus is putting an “alarming proportion” of jobs and services in the firing line in the social sector. Source: Probono Economics, August 2020

Blog: Creating a Better World Means Asking Better Questions

The social sector is being called to step into this moment and create a future that is dramatically different from our past. Will we choose to ask the questions traditional planning has encouraged us to ask, guided by the scarcity-driven assumption that the best we can do is react to our problems? Or will we ask questions that remove our blinders, revealing the whole picture of what is possible, and the dominoes that will turn that potential into reality? Source: SSIR, July 2020

After COVID-19, a future for the world's children?

The policy choices being made today will shape our societies' wellbeing for years to come. As the world responds to COVID-19, we propose one overarching question to guide countries' efforts: are we making the world better for children? Source: The Lancet, July 2020

Fuelling walking and cycling: human powered locomotion is associated with non-negligible greenhouse gas emissions

Reducing motorized transport and increasing active transport (i.e. transport by walking, cycling and other active modes) may reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve health. But, active modes of transport are not zero emitters. Source: Nature.com June 2020

There will be no 'back to normal' - Analysis on the impact of COVID-19

The pandemic will change the world permanently and profoundly. Even if countries can control the spread of COVID-19 in the coming months, there will be vast political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental consequences which will last many decades. Source: Nesta, April 2020

Public attitudes to charities and the coronavirus (COVID-19)

The public as a whole are extremely concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. When we asked them to choose their top concerns from a prompted list, fully 75% chose the outbreak as one of their most concerning issues. By comparison, in our most recent wave of the Charity Awareness Monitor, the most concerning issue was the quality of NHS services, chosen by 57% of people. Source nfpSynergy March 2020

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