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‘Buy downs’ helping to eradicate polio
An innovative financing programme, made possible by a unique public-private partnership, is helping to complete the goal of global polio eradication. Launched in April 2003, the Investment Partnership for Polio, administered by the World Bank, …
Funding panacea or vital injection?
Three years ago, in the pages of Alliance, the founding of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe was hailed as an instance of ‘unprecedented … cooperation between private foundations’. Formed by …
Unique and universal – adapting the model
A question that NESsT[2] staff are often asked is ‘Why do you work in Chile and Hungary? They don’t have anything in common.’ In fact, although Chile and Hungary have very little common culture and …
Definitions – tight embrace or flexible approach?
Why is it that when people get together to talk about community philanthropy, they so often end up talking about community foundations? And why does so much of the discussion then focus on their formal …
Foundations, the state and social justice[1]
In a paper I gave a year or so ago in New Zealand,[2] I argued that the time was ripe for a new contract between foundations and the state. I suggested that the proper role …
Translating words into deeds?
The Commission for Africa (CFA) has set itself the task of providing policies to accelerate progress towards a strong and prosperous Africa. It has also promised that Africans themselves will be largely involved in framing …
Interview – Avila Kilmurray
In June this year, Avila Kilmurray, Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland since 1994, became the first ever recipient of the Raymond Georis Prize for Innovative Philanthropy in Europe for the Foundation’s ‘extraordinary …
Can internet-based marketplaces help overcome the barriers to overseas giving?
This was the theme of a discussion hosted by Alliance at the 2004 Council on Foundations annual conference. Presentations from Dennis Whittle of GlobalGiving, Venkat Krishnan of GIVE Foundation India and Barry Gaberman from the …
How can non-profits escape grant dependency? New income sources for charities
Enterprise, entrepreneurship, venture capital, loan financing: if you are typical of the NGO sector – well, okay, if you’re me – such words and phrases send a shiver down the spine. The eyes glaze over …
The challenge of endowment
After what he described as his ‘eighteen-year self-appointed stint of independent reporting on trusts and foundations’, Luke FitzHerbert, delivering the 2004 Allen Lane Lecture, talked about why endowed charities so often end up failing to …
