Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

• For the sixth year in a row, the world's most generous country is Indonesia.
• The second most generous country is Ukraine, which is also the Index's biggest riser, increasing its score after ranking tenth last year.
• The CAF World Giving Index is one of the biggest surveys on giving ever produced, with millions of people interviewed around the world since 2009.
• Neil Heslop OBE, Chief Executive of the Charities Aid Foundation, said:
  " The CAF World Giving Index gives us reasons for hopeful optimism at a time of great instability.

• The number of people taking part in volunteering in the UK is decreasing.
• The social restrictions imposed as a result of COVID-19 do explain some of this decline.
• Of course, we went out less, and some regular volunteering was cancelled.

Steady decline

• Between 2001 and 2013 the number of people taking part in volunteering each year in England remained fairly consistent – maybe even increasing slightly.
• Around 40% of people said they volunteered at least once a year and around 28% volunteered at least once a month.
• The latest government survey found that only 16% of people in England took part in formal volunteering once a month in 2021-22.
• Similarly, a report by the Charities Aid Foundation shows that number volunteering has been in steady decline for the past five years – down 1.6 million people since 2018.

Who misses out

• Wealthier, more educated, more socially connected people have more opportunity to volunteer than those living in more challenging social circumstances.
• This perhaps better explains the gradual decline in volunteering over the past decade or so.
• This is a problem – because volunteering is beneficial to those doing the volunteering as well as the cause they are supporting.

Social inequalities

• The whole notion of volunteering could widen rather than reduce social inequalities: the gap between the most well-off and the poorest.
• Growing inequalities already have negative effects on the health and wellbeing of many people and their communities.
• It is unclear whether participation rates will recover until broader social inequalities and issues are addressed.

• Smiths Group, the industrial technology company, announces today the launch of its new charitable foundation.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230614685377/en/
  Smiths Group Announces Launch of Charitable Foundation (Graphic: Business Wire)
  The mission of the Foundation is central to Smiths Group’s purpose of ‘Improving our world through smarter engineering’.
• The Smiths Group Foundation will help increase our impact, deliver on our purpose and create lasting value for all of our stakeholders.”
  Vera Kirikova, Chief People Officer at Smiths Group, added: “For us at Smiths it’s so important to make a meaningful contribution to society.
• Mark Greer, Managing Director for Giving and Impact, Charities Aid Foundation, said: “We are delighted to have helped bring the Smiths Group Foundation to life.

• MIAMI, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organizations, today announced that the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has partnered with Unit4 ERPx , to transform its international nonprofit organization.
• EGPAF is a proven leader in the global fight to end HIV and AIDS, and an advocate for every child to live a full and healthy life into adulthood.
• EGPAF has a global footprint reaching thousands of health facilities in 19 countries and relies heavily on US Government Grants.
• "We are honored to be partnering with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation."