To set up a new charity, you must decide what sort of legal structure it will have.
Your charity structure is defined by its ‘governing document’ (the legal document that creates the charity and says how it should be run).
The type of structure you choose affects how your charity will operate, such as:
Constitution for a CIO whose only voting members are its charity trustees
The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) is a new legal form for a charity. It has been created in response to requests from the charitable sector. It is a new incorporated form of charity which is not a limited company or subject to company regulation. The Charities Act 2011 creates the basic legal framework for the CIO.
This framework is completed by regulations:
Source: CAF Online (https://www.cafonline.org/about-us/publications/blockchain)
New models of digital 'cryptocurrencies', such as Bitcoin, could present both major opportunities and challenges for charities. In this video we look at some of these opportunities and challenges, such as the potential for ‘radical transparency’ of donations, the possibility of making it easier to get aid money to where it is needed and the challenge of anonymous cryptocurrency donations.
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Source: Richard Braham @ fullfact.org
For every hundred pounds that’s made in the UK, seventy pence goes towards foreign aid.
Another way to say this is that the government has a target to spend 0.7% of the UK’s Gross National Income on overseas development aid each year. Gross National Income (GNI) is the UK’s annual output of goods and services, plus any income we get from abroad.
In 2016, the UK spent £13.4 billion on overseas aid, in line with the 0.7% target.
Because the UK economy is set to get bigger over the next few years the real value of development aid spending is expected to increase.
A backronym developed for Lean startups[1], which can be easily adapted and used by any group developing an idea e.g. in a brainstorming session.
B is for the “Business opportunity”. (This can be swapped for “Basic premise” (e.g. for NPOs) or “Business requirement” in an Agile environment)
R is for any “Risks” that are to be managed or mitigated. (Planned for, insured against, avoided etc.)
Amply is a digital identity protocol that builds trust. We provide every child with their own self-sovereign digital identity based on the blockchain. This will enable children to receive benefits and services that they might have previously been excluded from.
In our pilot project, Amply is being used to replace an existing paper-based system to register children for a government funded pre-school subsidy in South Africa. Service providers use a mobile app to verify children’s attendance at classes and to capture other useful information. This will increase trust in the funding mechanism and make funding available to more children who need it. It will save administration time and costs. And it will provide really useful information about how and where services are being
[The Linux Foundation][] partners with the world's leading developers and companies to solve the hardest technology problems and accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. [The Linux Foundation][] makes it its mission to provide experience and expertise to any initiative working to solve complex problems through open source collaboration, providing the tools to scale open source projects: security best practices, governance, operations and ecosystem development, training and certification, licensing, and promotion.
Linux is the world's largest and most pervasive open source software project in history. [The Linux Foundation][] is home to Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, and provides a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated for years to come. The success of Linux has catalyzed growth in the open source community, demonstrating the commercial efficacy of open source and inspiring countless new
WFP is taking first steps to harness blockchain technology to enhance our ability to provide effective, efficient assistance to the people we serve – and save millions of dollars.
Underpinning WFP’s Building Blocks project is blockchain, a cutting-edge technology that could transform the way in which humanitarian agencies deliver aid. Blockchain is a digital ledger technology used as a trusted way to track the ownership of assets without the need for a central authority, which could speed up transactions while lowering the chance of fraud or data mismanagement. Crucially, its peer-to-peer nature removes the need for verification from costly intermediaries such as banks or other institutions.
As a means of addressing the challenge of providing food assistance to over 80 million hungry people worldwide, WFP is taking early steps to harness blockchain technology to be able to deliver assistance more effectively. Building Blocks aims to make WFP’s growing cash-based transfer operati
Looking back to the last half century of computer technologies and architectures, one may observe a trend of fluctuation between the centralization and subsequent decentralization of computing power, storage, infrastructure, protocols, and code.
Mainframe computers are largely centralized. They typically house all computing power, memory, data storage, and code. Access to mainframes is mainly by 'dumb terminals', which only take inputs and outputs, and do not store or process data.
With the advent of personal computers and private networks, similar computational capabilities were now housed both on the clients, as well as the servers. This, in part, gave rise to the 'client-server' architecture, which supported the development of relational database systems. Massive data sets, which are housed on mainframes, could move onto a distributed architecture. This data could replicate from server to server, and subsets of the data could be accessed and processed