During the 2024 AFIELD Forum: Systems Change by Artists, Alliance Digital Editor Charlotte Kilpatrick interviewed AFIELD director Sandra Terdjman. Sandra Terdjman is a curator and advisor in arts and philanthropy. She supports the role of arts and culture in society as a founding member of different successful organisations like KADIST (Paris/San Francisco) an exhibition and residency program based on an international collection, COUNCIL (together with Grégory Castéra), an organisation that favors multidisciplinary projects at the crossroads …

‘All post-conflict areas are a playground for donors.’ At this year’s KoneKtor – Philanthropy East Forum (2024), Alliance magazine editor, Elaine Stabler, sat down with Nedim Krajišnik, director of Step by Step, an NGO dedicated to child-centred education in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Reflecting on a post-conflict landscape marred by deep-seated divisions and unresolved issues, Krajišnik offers incisive critique on the complexities of post-conflict reconstruction, a valuable perspective the challenges of effective philanthropy, and an urgent appeal to …

‘We don’t lack money, we lack risk capital (in the global impact space and in efforts to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals financing gap),’ says Dr Frank Aswani, CEO of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA). We are speaking on zoom as AVPA launches its Catalytic Pooled Fund, ahead of its flagship conference from 4 – 6 November in Nairobi. AVPA’s mission is to increase the flow of capital into African social investments and …

Nick Deychakiwsky is a senior program officer working in the Enhancing Community Philanthropy program area of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Civil Society Program.  In late 1990, Deychakiwsky moved to Ukraine, where he worked in various roles supporting democratic and economic reform before joining the Mott Foundation in 2000. Working in the Foundation’s former Prague office, he was responsible for grantmaking in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova until late 2006. Deychakiwsky subsequently managed U.S. and …