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Beyond the status quo
The past several years have witnessed exciting new developments in global philanthropy as grantmakers increasingly recognize the need to integrate gender into their approaches. This has been marked both by raised awareness about the importance …
The power of advice
How can investment advisers help foundations make sustainable and impact investments? There are great expectations that endowed foundations will act as the catalytic investors to ‘prime the pump’. In the hope that we could raise …
Can markets and prices solve the ecological problems we face?
The world’s economy is growing much faster than our ecosystem can support, argued Alejandro Litovsky at a breakfast meeting in London on 21 March to launch the March issue of Alliance magazine, which focuses on …
Bread, freedom and social justice
Philanthropy in the Arab world can never be the same again. No longer will it be possible to smooch up to authoritarian governments by performing charitable acts. Foundations will have to play their full part …
Bringing community philanthropy to the next stage
Over the past year, the Aga Khan Foundation (USA) and the C S Mott Foundation have consulted the field about how to develop community philanthropy. A new report, The Value of Community Philanthropy, suggests ways …
Limitations of a ‘purist’ approach to human rights
Rebecca Adamson’s critique in the June issue of Alliance of the traditional philanthropic paradigm (‘one gives, the other receives’) and the concomitant lack of agency on the part of the recipient may be relevant beyond the field …
From ‘walking dollar sign’ to inquiry and reflexivity
When I first took up my current role of chief executive of Trust Waikato, a foundation in New Zealand formed out of the community banking movement, a couple of things happened that encouraged and challenged …
Philanthropy Secretariat bringing funders to Liberia
As reported in the March 2010 issue of Alliance, Liberia is the first country in the world to create a government office dedicated to facilitating the work of foundations and philanthropists. Founded in April 2009, …
Civil society more than the sum of CSOs
In trying to understand and grasp what civil society is and how it can be strengthened, those who seek to support the sector may have been looking in the wrong places. This is one of …
The importance of gender
Women are unduly affected by environmental degradation. They walk further when wells run dry or firewood is scarce. They work harder for less when extreme weather devastates crops. They tend to suffer more from climate …
