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Charity salaries vs inflation over the last 5 years
With so much talk about inflation, and more specifically the upcoming public sector pay rise and whether the increase will be above the inflation rate, we thought we’d take a look at charity sector pay over the last five years to see how it compares …
Global distribution of ‘thought leaders’
With the definition ‘thought leaders’ being a bit too nebulous for us to get our heads around, we thought we’d look into the global and regional distribution of thought leaders and leave the concept for others to analyse.
Read on to find out what we discovered.
How recruitment consultants describe charities
In one of the most niche blogs ever dreamed up, we decided to take a look at the different adjectives used to describe charities by recruitment consultants looking for fundraisers in Greater London.
Read on for the results.
The vagaries of Individual Giving
We found ourselves wondering how exactly an ‘individual giving’ job is defined.
We looked across three of the big charity job boards to find out.
Read on for our musings.
#4 Correlation: Fundraising vs hair-raising
With the year’s most pointless holiday upon us once again, we’re dredging up some more tenuous associations from Google Trends that look at meaningless correlations in the fundraising sector.
Read on for the fourth installment of Correlation Corner.
#3 Correlation: weight loss & the charity sector
Once again, we’ve delved into Google’s archives to take a look at meaningless correlations between the charity sector and others.
This time we’ve searched for the term ‘charity’ vs ‘weight loss’.
#2 Correlation: I hate my job
In the second of our series of Calculus Corner, we’re taking a look at how the search term for ‘I hate my job’ changes over the course of a given year and across different countries.
#1 Correlation: GDPR and Ed Sheeran
Whilst idly wondering to what degree people’s interest in GDPR had declined according to Google Trends since May 25th, I found myself contemplating how interest in this correlated to other things, like Ed Sheeran.
Read on to hear my thoughts