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Rob Abercrombie

Rob Abercrombie is Director of Research & Consulting at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and leads NPC’s consulting service to charities, funders and government. He has worked as a strategy consultant across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, and as Head of Strategy for the UK’s version of the Consumers Union. NPC is the UK’s leading think tank on the charity sector. It exists to make charities and funders more successful in achieving their missions, through rigorous analysis, practical advice and innovative thinking.

Posts by Rob Abercrombie

Accessing Government Data In The UK: The “Justice Data Lab” Experience

“Although the cultural, legal and technical barriers to releasing data within government are real and need to be negotiated, there has been a clear public commitment to doing so. And when we started talking to the Ministry of Justice a couple of years ago, we found we were pushing at an open door.”  Squarely on the […]

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