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Going swimmingly: centennial year resources on community foundations
Daria Teutonico and Wendy Richardson 1914 was a big year for big ideas. In Australia, swimming enthusiasts developed a new kind of suit – the Speedo – and sold it on the market for the …
What can philanthropy do for Syria?
The war in Syria is now in its fourth year. It has cost over 200,000 lives, put 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country (USAID) and displaced 10 million, more than …
Should we be afraid?
At the end of last October, David Callahan, editor of the Inside Philanthropy blog, posted his five ‘scariest’ trends in philanthropy. Callahan’s ‘trends’ all relate to philanthropy in the US. Are these specifically US trends, …
Community philanthropy and a new model of development
What role can community philanthropy play in development post-2015? Comments on Jenny Hodgson and Barry Knight’s article come from Canada, Germany, Slovakia, Romania, the UK and the US. As discussion hots up around the United …
Community foundations in Central and Eastern Europe 20 years on
On 19 and 20 September, more than 80 community foundation practitioners and researchers met for a conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. Organized by the community foundation associations from the four Visegrad countries (Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Czech …
Think global: emerging lessons from global community philanthropy
The community foundation may have been invented in the US 100 years ago, but there are now more community foundations outside the US than there are inside the country. And while the US has historically been …
Profit-with-purpose business: breakthrough to scale?
One of the biggest challenges facing the social sector is lack of scale. We have many talented and determined social entrepreneurs, many non-profits doing wonderful work, but how many achieve the scale of impact that …
New role for philanthropy in post-earthquake Japan
Traditionally, Japanese society has had a government that was effective in meeting the country’s economic and social development needs and low expectations of the civil society sector. According to a 2008 report, non-profit organizations contributed …
Sistema B: for new economies in Latin America and the world
Sistema B wants to bring a new meaning to success in business: we envision an economy where success is measured by the wellbeing of people and planet, and not just by financial profits. This is …
Leading your horse to water: is innovation enough?
New Philanthropy Capital’s (NPC) new report, 10 Innovations in Global Philanthropy, aims, say its authors, to bring more money into philanthropy and to see it spent more effectively. As its subtitle, ‘concepts worth spreading to …
