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New report on challenging the Closing Space for Civil Society
IHRFG, together with their partners at Ariadne and the European Foundation Center, has launched Challenging the Closing Space for Civil Society, a starting point for funders to work together to contest the closing space for …
Aligning investing and grantmaking: thoughts from the social change/human rights field
A group of grantmakers in the arena of social change and human rights got together last week in Barcelona to share best practices (and failures) around funding. As part of this conversation, we held a …
Is it time for RISKY goals, not just SMART ones?
Assessing impact is a challenge faced by every grantmaker – including those interviewed for a new report, Advancing Human Rights: The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking. Produced by the Foundation Center and the International Human Rights …
‘Seize the moment’ philanthropy (haste doesn’t make waste)
An unstable political situation and constant violations of human rights is a fertile atmosphere for emergency situations to arise, but also offers an opportunity for responsible philanthropists to act and react. Most readers would agree …
Philanthropy in Spain… but… does that exist?
I have only recently started working at Calala, the first women’s fund to be created in Spain, and I have to admit that entering this world has been quite a discovery for me. I come …
USAID: thank you and goodbye!
I recently made a decision not to write about Russian politics in my next piece for this blog. Alas, I can’t keep this promise as our government once again decided to get engaged in agenda-setting …
Combating intolerance: can scholarship help?
There was a fantastic double event at the London School of Economics on Wednesday 20 June when His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a speech as a prelude to a conference on Tolerance in a …
Russian NGOs and civil society: under influence?
‘There is a war against Russia. It is an announced information war which involves hundreds and thousands of people, agencies and organizations. Taking advantage of the imperfect and out-dated Russian legislation, multimillion dollar budgets come …
How are the new policies for China’s CSOs developing?
A colleague of mine recently commented that the Chinese government seems to be determined to do all it can for opening space for civil society right here and right now! It is difficult to keep …
First Indian Philanthropy Forum to discuss human rights
Two hundred people in one room to discuss philanthropy! A few years back this would not have been considered possible. But the third of Dasra’s annual Indian Philanthropy Forums, held in Mumbai on 21 March, …
