Author Archive:
Paula Jancso Fabiani
Endowment funds: New country for an old form
A relatively new phenomenon on the Brazilian scene, endowment funds are strengthening social causes and organisations With a long history behind them, endowment funds have become an effective mechanism for the sustainability of causes and …
What Brazilian philanthropy learned from pandemic giving
Collaboration and strengthening civil society organisations are key to tackling Brazil’s social inequality, a new report from the Institute for Development of Social Investment asserts. It’s easier to make a fortune than to give money …
Reclaiming democracy
The theme of the 2019 Global Philanthropy Forum focused on how philanthropy can play an important role in strengthening confidence in democracy in such turbulent times. Democracy is fragile and can be replaced as we …
Jair Bolsanaro steals headlines, but something amazing just happened in Brazilian politics
Brazil has undergone seismic political change. The headlines are being dominated – quite understandably – by the new Government, led by President Jair Bolsonaro. As a result, a piece of legislation that has become law …
Interview with Paula Jancso Fabiani
At the beginning of September, Paula Jancso Fabiani took over from Marcos Kisil as president of Brazil’s Institute for the Development of Social Investment (IDIS). She talks to Caroline Hartnell about an advocacy role for …
WINGSForum 2014: Building Connected Global Philanthropy
WINGSForum 2014, held in Istanbul 27-29 March, was a great event to connect and reconnect people and to bring together information that is relevant to maximize the effectiveness of grantmaking. Its title, aptly, was ‘The …
Private social investment in Brazil: reflections from the 8th GIFE Congress
In São Paulo, Brazil, from 19 to 21 March, the Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises (GIFE) held its 8th Congress, one of the most important events for the third sector in Brazil. The Congress …
It’s not just a question of age
In the December edition of Alliance, Jason Franklin suggests a definition of next gen donors as ‘young donors from their early twenties to early forties’. One thing the issue does not mention is that this is …
Emerging Societies, Emerging Philanthropies International Forum: Different countries, different philanthropic infrastructures, similar problems
In China the number of foundations has tripled in the last few years. It seems a lot, doesn’t it? It seems that the sector is evolving even though there are only around only 3,000 foundations …
Participating in a global community helps you innovate locally
The Global Philanthropy Forum, a community of nearly 1,800 donors and social investors, has held its 2013 conference in the middle of April in San Francisco. The event focused on debating ongoing issues like hunger, …
