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Stars Impact Awards move into funding Latin America
After six years of successfully offering 41 Impact Awards in countries across Africa, the Middle East and Asia/Pacific (not including the 2013 Award recipients, who will be announced in December) Stars Foundation has now opened …
Semillas’ philosophy: Building a network for investing in social change
Semillas (Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer), the only women’s fund in Mexico, has a defined and unique philosophy of philanthropy in Mexico, which is best displayed by our network of individual donors. This …
INAISE conference holds out prospect of socially inclusive banking order
In recent years Mexico has earned a certain financial notoriety, whether from the Compartamos IPO or the alleged money-laundering activities of HSBC and others. The World Bank considers Mexico to be an ‘advanced middle income …
Giving with awareness for change
In many of Bogota’s supermarkets, when a woman pays for her shopping she is asked if she wants to donate ‘a few pesos to a cause’. There is usually not much variety in the causes. …
Hunger diminishes but inequality remains, while governments support big producers at expense of small farmers
Latin America and the Caribbean is the region that has made most progress in the reduction of hunger over the last 20 years, according to a new report from the UN Organization for Food and …
GlaxoSmithKline to support extension of Pro Mujer’s health services to five Latin American countries
Pro Mujer, which provides women in Latin America with vital financial, health and human development services that are typically out of reach, has received a grant of US$575,000 from GlaxoSmithKline to fund a three-year, five-country …
Central America and Caribbean to benefit from small business funding pilots
A number of organizations either based in or working in the Latin American and Caribbean region are to receive grants from the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) as part of an initiative to stimulate …
‘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 …
Ashoka Mexico launches 25 ‘propositions’ to celebrate quarter century
In order to mark its 25th anniversary, Ashoka Mexico is promoting 25 themes for significant social change in Mexico and Central America and is supporting organizations working towards each of them. The themes include education …
GIFE publishes guidelines for non-profit investments in Portuguese
GIFE has just published a Portuguese translation of a code of conduct for those responsible for investing the funds of non-profit organizations. The code, originally produced by the CFA Institute, is available through the GIFE …
