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Philanthropy is not an island
In the comparatively short time it took to plan, produce, and publish this issue, the world has dramatically changed. Chinese probes visited the dark side of the moon. An attempted assassination on former US President …
Philanthropy in the Global South is coming of age. Can it fulfil its potential?
Philanthropy across the ‘Global South’ – an elusive shorthand for developing economy countries and regions – is booming. New ‘south-south’ partnerships are being forged, new academic centres are research and teaching about philanthropy in ‘emerging …
Welcome to the June 2024 issue of Alliance
Like motherhood and apple pie, who would not be in favour of pursuing the common good? But what exactly is the common good? And do those of us working in philanthropy have a special responsibility …
Social justice and philanthropy – still an uneasy relationship
Is there really such a thing as social justice philanthropy? That’s one of the big philosophical questions facing our field. It’s one which those of us working in philanthropy will have reflected on, at least …
Wanted: funders to back public interest media
There are, broadly speaking, two types of media funders. The first group are philanthropists who buy prominent media titles. Think for example of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post for $250 million …
Elon Musk: An enemy of philanthropy
The billionaire’s philanthropy is corrosive to everything philanthropy should stand for For one of the world’s richest and most famous men, who exerts a magnetic forcefield of attention, it is remarkable that comparatively little has …
Welcome to the March 2024 issue of Alliance
Welcome to this new – and new look – issue of Alliance magazine This issue includes a special feature on leadership in philanthropy. Too often, our focus in popular depictions is on the lifestyles of …
Where is philanthropy as we sleepwalk into conflict?
Few would disagree that the loss of almost 30,000 Palestinian lives in Gaza (at the time of writing) and the massacre of 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023 are moral failings of huge …
Why philanthropists should steer clear of Oxford University
A court has ruled that Oxford University put staff on sham contracts; so why should philanthropists donate to the university until it gets its house in order? It was once observed that our world’s leading universities – …
The Economist’s philanthrocapitalism is still the predominant narrative
Earlier this month, the publication which spawned and celebrated the birth of philanthrocapitalism in the heady days of 2006 has just renounced it eighteen years later. What took them so long? The crossing of the …
