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“Caroline Fiennes is a great source of advice about charitable giving. She’s helped Eurostar become effective very rapidly”

– Eurostar CEO Richard Brown

“Charmingly disruptive” – Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler

Caroline Fiennes (formerly Newhouse) is Director of Giving Evidence, which encourages and enables giving based on sound evidence. She advises people and companies on giving well to charities, and is one of the few people whose work has featured in the scientific journal Nature and OK! magazine.

She frequently speaks and writes in the press, and has been an award-winning Chief Executive – of climate change charity Global Cool, which promotes green living. She has advised donors including the Emirates Foundation in UAE, Eurostar, ERM (Environmental Resources Management: a global environmental consultancy), the Ashden Awards, the Big Lottery Fund, the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, professional tennis players, the Private Equity Foundation, BBC Children in Need, Booz & Co., and Morgan Stanley. This work has spanned environment, health, education, international development, children’s issues and other areas.

She is on boards of the Flemish Red Cross, Evidence Aid (part of The Cochrane Collaboration), and The Life You Can Save founded by ethicist Peter Singer. She has worked with MIT, University College London, Oxford University and the University of Chicago, and taught at Oxford, Cambridge and Yale. She also does ‘proper work’ sometimes, e.g., clearing scrub on Wimbledon Common(!)

Caroline set up and led the client team at New Philanthropy Capital (a charity think-tank), having worked on charitable giving, sustainability and corporate strategy at The Monitor Group (a global strategy consultancy).

Her book is described as “The Freakonomics of the charity world“! Her other published work about charitable giving includes:

• A review of the evidence systems of UK mental health charities
• a review of a ‘Sustainable Supplier Programme’ in factories, run by the C&A Foundation
• Two major reviews of the evidence systems in medicine, and in education in less developed countries
• A systematic review of the rigorous evidence about outdoor education in the UK
• A systematic review of the rigorous evidence about various youth development outcomes, for the Sail Training Association in the UK
• A paper with the University of Chicago about what is known and not known about doing philanthropy well
• about donors’ roles in international development: Going Global – A review of international development funding by UK trusts and foundations
• about making loans to charities to enable them to improve fundraising
• about cost allocation within charities: Full Cost Recovery – a Manual for Charities. “I want charities to use this guide”, said the Minister. Description and excerpts here ; available from here 
• about investing in charities to grow their role in delivering public services.  The following are based on research which Caroline led: Futurebuilders (a £125m government fund) A First Learning Report and  Second Learning Report

Caroline is a London Leader, and holds a Shackleton Foundation Leadership Award.  She was named an ‘eco-hero’ by The Ecologist magazine and an ‘undercover eco-hero’ by the Evening Standard. She contributed to a JP Morgan publication in which eight donors tell their remarkable and diverse stories: Philanthropic Lives.

Caroline frequently speaks at public events, and was honoured to speak at TEDx:

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To invite Caroline to write or comment in the press, or to speak at an event, contact enquiries [at] giving-evidence.com