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The importance of international giving
The main purpose of this address is to touch on the current status of international grantmaking. I will do this by looking at the European perspective and by looking as a European in all modesty …
Towards a self-sustaining infrastructure
It’s time to place greater value on ‘infrastructure’[1] in the non-profit sector and on those ‘invisible’ infrastructure-building organizations that work to build it. These organizations need to be recognized as an essential part of building …
Building the global infrastructure for philanthropy
Before looking specifically at the global infrastructure of philanthropy, I’d like to start by giving you a personal vision of where I hope the contextual reality for the institutions of civil society is moving. I …
Auditing conservation in an age of accountability
When The Nature Conservancy of California asked Silicon Valley venture capitalist Seth Neiman for a multimillion-dollar contribution to help protect local open space, no one involved had the slightest notion that they were about to …
Rethinking Accountability
From 19 to 30 January, Social Edge members joined together to discuss the challenges of civil society accountability and governance. In an online dialogue co-sponsored by the Skoll Foundation and Alliance magazine, key leaders from …
Where every day counts
Before starting to answer any of these questions, Salil Shetty asks to take ‘a step back’ to consider the difference between the MDGs and the targets that came out of the big UN conferences of …
The Foundation Incubator – Learning from experience
Conceived in 2000 and officially opening in 2001, the Foundation Incubator (TFI) can be seen as an alternative to traditional donor education. Based largely on the business incubation model, TFI assumes that emerging philanthropic organizations …
Stretch – developing business leaders and social enterprises
Forward-thinking companies today recognize the need to engage in development and regeneration issues, and many are doing so through employee volunteering programmes. Some of these are undoubtedly very good. But in some cases companies simply …
New logo: social enterprise the next big brand?
Why does social enterprise have to operate at the margins? Why does it have to be small when poverty is only getting bigger? Social leadership today seems fixated on smallness: microcredit, small Fairtrade boutiques, small …
Capacity building: what it takes from funders
The nonprofit’s path to effectiveness can to a great degree be defined as appropriate attention to leadership, governance and planning. What then is the funder’s role in building these core capacities or other important specific …
