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Alliance magazine: An interview with Jeremy Leggett, chair of Carbon Tracker
‘We need to replace these high-carbon fuels with renewable energy, and we need to do it fast, as though preparing for war. ’ Following the release of the second report from Carbon Tracker, Unburnable Carbon: Avoiding …
Alliance magazine: An interview with Christopher Oechsli, president and CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies
‘Why wait to address the need when you can do it now?’ The Atlantic Philanthropies is due to complete its grantmaking by 2016 and close its doors by 2020. As it comes to the end …
How do I general support thee, let me count the ways!
With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, I could not resist paraphrasing her famous poem for an appeal to foundations to stop trying to be so unique. But, I promise you, this will be the shortest …
In the fight over big vs. small government, philanthropy has forgotten the poor
Philanthropy’s standing with the policymakers in Washington, DC, has reached an all-time low. A prime reason foundations have earned that status is that they have lost sight of their primary obligation to support the poor. …
What to fund, how to fund or who is funding – which is most important for social justice philanthropy?
The Social Justice Philanthropy Conference, held on 1 March in London, looked at the implications of social justice for practice and policy, particularly in relation to foundations. Yet it seemed that in the course of …
The number of foundations in Germany: still growing, but…
Growth seems to be one phenomenon the media still loves to report on. The German Association of Foundations publishes one of these amazing growth stories every year, and at the end of January it presented …
Philanthropy as acupuncture: it’s all about where you put the needle
‘Philanthropy is like acupuncture,’ declared Hakan Altinay, senior fellow for global economy and development at the Brookings Institution, during the Salzburg Global Seminar session on ‘Philanthropy in Times of Crisis and Transition: Catalyzing Forces of …
‘Necessary change’ for Latin American CSOs likely to prove a difficult one
As international funding from foundations and bilateral agencies has dramatically decreased and continues to do so, civil society organizations in Latin America need to look to contracts with local and national governments and to collaborative …
What can foundations do to support the European project?
‘Foundations and Europe: Think, Act, Change’ was the title of the European Foundation Centre’s second Autumn Assembly, held in Brussels on 12 November. A majority of Europeans are sceptical about the European Union and what …
Alliance magazine: An interview with Mitch Winehouse
‘As we progressed, we brought in our own people, who had experience in setting up foundations and charities, but frankly it was the blind leading the blind to begin with’ says Amy Winehouse’s father of …
