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Sonali Patel

Blog Sonali Patel, Alexandra Hughes Brown and Gayle Martin 24 July 2024

How to fund in the Global South with high impact

Back in 2001, labor rights activist Zehra Khan began informally organizing a group of home-based women garment workers, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Mama Cash—the world’s first international women’s fund—supported this grassroots movement from …

Opinion Henry Platt, Brian Burwell and Sonali Patel 7 September 2023

Winning on Climate Change Is Entirely Possible With a Little More Help from Philanthropy

Entertaining the thought of winning on climate change requires us to keep two apparently opposed ideas in mind: first, that we are living in a time of escalating peril and crisis, and second, that major …