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Private investments for the public good
The concept of making investments that produce both social and financial return is not new. Triodos Bank, Oikocredit and ShoreBank have been investing for social returns for more than two decades, and Profund, the first …
Using the marketplace: shopping for development?
‘Systemic problems are not solved by a few smart people … thinking really, really deep thoughts about really, really important things. They are solved when a vibrant and competitive marketplace first tests and then confirms …
Diaspora philanthropy: a potential to be realized
In recent years, diaspora philanthropy – largely motivated by feelings of cultural or religious identity, a sense of community, and often an acute appreciation of conditions within the home country – has increasingly come to …
Getting rich people to give
Theresa Lloyd and Denis Tracey have recently published books about philanthropy, in Britain and Australia, respectively.[1] Though both are based on interviews with donors, they adopt very different approaches. Denis Tracey’s book, Giving it Away: …
Women’s funds the world over – the challenge and the potential
Six years ago an international women’s fund in the Netherlands, known as Mama Cash, hosted a milestone event with their overseas and domestic partners as part of their fifteenth anniversary celebrations. The idea was to …
How are they doing?
Kavita Ramdas paints a picture of an emergent but embattled global movement of feminist philanthropy. How much progress have individual women’s funds around the world made and what are their future prospects? Alliance talked to …
Women’s funds mobilizing resources
TEWA (Nepal) Investing in land and buildings Over the past three years, Tewa has begun to execute a Land and Building Development Plan (LBDP). The plan, which will be accomplished in three phases over a …
Then and now
How much has changed since Mama Cash, a women’s fund based in the Netherlands, was set up 20 years ago? Founder Marjan Sax talks about why she felt a women’s fund was needed and why …
A piece of the puzzle
Worldwide, there is an astonishing lack of interest and money specifically committed to helping women. The results of this neglect by funders and governments have been little short of catastrophic in an era when there …
Women’s Funding Network – Changing the face of philanthropy
Fund>>forward, Making the Case and the Women of Color/International Development Incubator are three of the tools most recently developed by Women’s Funding Network (WFN) to help its members – 100 women’s funds around the globe. …