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From Queretaro to Accra – Why are women’s rights losing out?
‘Where is the money for women’s rights?’ This is a question that brought together over 300 women’s rights organizers in Queretaro, Mexico, 9-11 November 2006, at the invitation of the Association for Women’s Rights and …
Giving NGOs space to breathe
NGOs can play an important role in meeting basic needs; they can also empower people to play an active role in the democratic process, thereby underpinning and fortifying that process. Yet in many countries the …
Unintended consequences of international philanthropy
International development projects funded by foundation and public sector money have in recent years been increasingly subject to empirical measurement and assessment tools. New rigour has entered this field and both large and small funders …
Balancing on a wobble board
In September 2005, 18 months ago, Impetus Trust and Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) embarked on a four-year co-investment in Naz Project London (NPL), an organization that provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services …
The status of global philanthropy
What a pleasure it is to be here with all of you – old friends and new friends. This forum has had the good fortune of starting in a magical city, Oaxaca, in 1998, moving …
Big on opinions and tight on core funding?
Social change happens because an individual stands up, and says: This should change. I can change it. This is what I will do. These three sentences carry the should of values, the can of skill …
Foundations for social change
What links the closure of a donor agency, the launch of an advocacy initiative for ‘social change’ foundations and a new masters programme for grantmakers? The closure The Balkan Community Initiatives Fund UK (BCIF UK) …
Willing to learn?
When Jim Wolfensohn stepped down last year after a decade as President of the World Bank, some civil society groups expressed concern about what would happen to his legacy of increasing the participation of civil …
What is a social justice foundation to do?
The first in a series of articles on social justice philanthropy was published in Alliance Online in December 2005. In this first article, Colin Greer and Barry Knight attempted to answer some basic questions about …
Flying the philanthropy flag against all the odds? The role of grantmaker associations
Trade associations are generally considered to be good and useful things – they can represent the interests of their members to the external world, they offer a means of sharing information among people practising the …
