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What is social justice funding? – From noblesse oblige to solidarity
From noblesse oblige to solidarity – Firoze Manji King Baudouin Foundation keeping an ear to the ground Funders meet with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the …
Why does social justice so often lose out?
At the inaugural meeting of Philanthropy Ireland in 1998, Hugh Frazer, founding Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, spoke of two broad traditions within the foundation world. On the one hand, the conservative …
‘Out’-ing the social justice agenda
January is the month of Janus, the Greek god of beginnings and endings, doorways and gates. It was appropriate, therefore, that CRY’s 2004 meeting was held in January and that the presentation announcing the consensus …
Measuring social justice philanthropy – The metrics are the method
I want to look at a technique for measuring social justice philanthropy, not attempt a definition of it. Nevertheless, I would like to set down two reference points: St Augustine’s ‘Justice is that virtue that …
Buying social change?
Why, asks Caroline Hartnell, do social justice organizations so often lose out on funding opportunities? Her hypothesis is that donor conservativeness and the difficulty of measuring social justice work contribute to this. But how about …
Corporate social investment in South Africa – Social justice not high on the agenda
More than ten years after South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, apartheid’s social and economic legacy remains. The majority of its nearly 45 million people continue to live in conditions resembling those of a …
The Arab Human Rights Fund – The politics of social justice philanthropy
Social justice is a political issue as well as a humanitarian one; consequently social justice philanthropy is a political act. This can pose formidable difficulties for donor agencies and activists everywhere, especially in an area …
Human rights funding in Brazil – Building a sustainable movement
Civil society emerged in Brazil, as in many other countries, in the struggle against authoritarian rule. The human rights movement was thus shaped by the need to protest and seek fundamental change in the way …
The socially just foundation – Doing good and being good
Social justice philanthropy ‘addresses the root causes of social and economic inequities, and respects and includes the communities it serves in the governance and decision-making process’, declares Yeshica Weerasekera of Changemakers in the US. In …
From not-for-profit to ‘social profit’
On 15 June 2004, an unusual crowd gathered on the trading floor of BOVESPA, the Brazilian Stock Exchange in São Paulo. For the first time in its history, the centre of the capital market was …