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Just published: Jeremy Leggett calls on foundations to wake up to risk taking in the global energy system
‘The long-awaited fifth IPCC scientific assessment of climate change poses society with big questions, once again, about how to handle high-consequence but slow-burning risks.’ So writes Jeremy Leggett, chair of Carbon Tracker and founder and …
Strategic co-funding: exploring funder collaboration
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) organized a convening of about 140 funders in Washington on 21 February to discuss a rapidly developing field of activity for many philanthropic players: increasing impact through co-funding. The format …
Bending the rules of philanthropy
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from one of our young fundraisers saying ‘I am very frustrated… I think this donor wanted to support us, but now she cannot because the group …
Foundations that break the rules
The other day the founder of an innovative medical research foundation described how they had received an important early grant from a very large and well-reputed foundation. He confided that: ‘They had to break their …
Alliance magazine: An interview with Alexander Soros
In a recent interview with the editor of Alliance magazine, Alexander Soros says that he is looking to take risks with his recently launched foundation to support unpopular causes. Influenced greatly by his father George …
Opportunity and risk – discussions at the Alliance Breakfast Club
Following the June issue of Alliance, with a special focus on Opportunity, risk and global development, last week’s Breakfast Club looked at the question Should foundations take more risks in pursuit of social justice? To …
High risk/high gain? Why isn’t this more appealing to foundations?
‘High risk/high gain? Opportunity, risk and global development’ was the topic for discussion at a panel discussion in Belfast on 5 June preceding the EFC conference which started the following day. This was also the …
EFC Belfast: Where the big ship is sailing
What may in time prove to be a landmark conference in the history of European foundations has just ended. The European Foundation Centre raised its game and came of age, delivering a world-class conference on …
Why is everyone talking about risk? Read the new issue of Alliance to find out
Everyone seems to be talking about risk: this is the focus of the June issue of Alliance, which has just been published. It was also a major theme emerging from the Bellagio Summit on the Future …
Real clarity about impact from the outset vital, says CIFF’s Jamie Cooper-Hohn
According to president and CEO Jamie Cooper-Hohn, in a recently published interview for Alliance, two things make the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation’s (CIFF’s) approach ‘a substantial divergence from the norm of development funding’: first, the …
