Author Archive:
Barry Smith
African philanthropy on the move: celebrating the AGN Assembly
Over the last several months, I have had the pleasure of being part of the organizing team for the Second Biennial African Grantmakers Network (AGN) Assembly – What’s New? What’s Now? What’s Next: Growing African …
Community Foundations of Canada Conference
Event Our Communities, Our World: Community Foundations of Canada Conference Date 7-9 November Venue Montreal, Canada Canada’s remarkable movement of community foundations (now numbering 165) brought the world to Montreal for a truly global gathering …
5th GIFE Congress
With a theme of ‘Local Experiences, Global Transformations’, the three-day GIFE congress on Private Social Investment in April in Salvador, Brazil brought together a cross-section of corporate social investors, private philanthropists, and civil society, development …
New Southern Africa Trust launched
SAGA (the Southern African Grantmakers’ Association) – in collaboration with the UK Department for International Development – Southern Africa (DFID-SA) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) – has announced the formation of a …
New HIV/AIDS network launched in Southern Africa …
In July 2002, eight grantmakers from across Southern Africa[1] decided to launch a new collaborative network to promote more effective cross-border responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis. The Southern African HIV/AIDS Intermediary Grantmaker Collaborative (SAHIC) will …
Do we expect too much of civil society?
Over recent years, ‘civil society strengthening’ has become a central preoccupation of the development brigade. The INTRAC 10th Anniversary Conference provided a rare opportunity for influential development players to reflect critically on the terms of …
