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International Women’s Day: ‘If you care about social impact, you should not be ignoring African women’
At the age of 29, Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes founded one of the few women-owned investment companies in Africa. With women in Africa recieving only a tiny amount of investment money, yet outperforming men on stock exchanges, …
AGN invites nominations for 2014 African Philanthropy Awards
The African Grantmakers Network invites the public to nominate individuals and organizations for the 2014 African Philanthropy Awards at the AGN Assembly in Accra, Ghana in November 2014. Every two years the AGN holds its …
Systems-wide philanthropy for socio-economic transformation in Africa (£)
Originally published by Alliance magazine. Subscribe to Alliance for full access> Over the last decade and a half, ‘hopeless’ Africa has become Africa rising – at least economically. Unfortunately, this rise has carried few Africans …
Are art and culture among Africa’s most undervalued assets?
This was the question I asked myself after the opening session of the 2014 Africa Grantmakers Affinity Group (AGAG) conference, held in New York from 18 to 20 March. The theme of the conference was …
Opportunity International and MasterCard Foundation announce new initiative in Africa
On 25 March Opportunity International in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation announced a $22.7 million project to promote access to loans, savings programmes and other critical financial products and services to help more than 7 …
African Philanthropy Forum convenes in Ethiopia
Addis Abba was the site last week for the founding meeting of the African Philanthropy Forum (APF). Over one hundred African donors and foundation professionals gathered from 24 to 25 February to celebrate the growth …
All dressed up with nowhere to go: how to find investment-ready social enterprises in Africa?
‘Skills, a relevant network and finance.’ When asked to name the main challenges facing budding entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jessie – founder and CEO of the Rwanda-based IT company Sail Ltd – is unequivocal. She …
EuroPhilantopics conference turns its gaze towards Africa
It was a first: at the Philanthropy House, European philanthropists’ new home in central Brussels: on 14 November members from the European Foundation Centre (EFC) and the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) met with officials …
How to be a coffee bean: a conversation on social impact investment with East African philanthropists
‘My dad taught me that there are three kinds of people in this life: carrots, eggs and coffee beans. Carrots are orange flashy and hard, eggs are fragile and have to be held in one’s …
Emerging Societies – Emerging Philanthropies International Forum: a life-changing experience
Marcus Garvey once said, ‘The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.’ The …
