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Investing for a just transition
The need to rebuild after the Covid-19 pandemic offers an opportunity for a just transition to a clean economy – an opportunity foundation investors must take Crises can be moments of transformation. The catastrophic failure …
In profile: Philanthropic investing
Foundations are actively using a greater range of their assets to pursue their underlying aims. These investments span a wide variety of form, purpose and recipient, a sample of which is featured here Foundations going …
Virtue signalling is not always a virtue: Conversation with Hewlett’s Larry Kramer and Ana Marshall
Guest editor Danielle Walker Palmour talks to Larry Kramer and Ana Marshall, respectively CEO and chief investment officer of the Hewlett Foundation, about why the foundation is investing its $10 billion endowment for the long …
Harnessing the philanthropy and finance sectors for social good
Limited assets among Chinese foundations restricts their ability to bring about change – but it may also act as a catalyst for other resources When the Narada Foundation announced plans to contribute 50 million RMB …
Mission-driven investing: are foundations doing enough?
Foundations could take the lead in making mission-driven investing a mainstream practice. The pandemic may give them a push in that direction For reasons that are both systemic and paradigmatic, mission-driven investing in South Africa …
Time for climate and sustainability coherence
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that global problems need comprehensive solutions The current pandemic has laid bare the fact that Latin American philanthropy can no longer ignore the need to concert its grantmaking and investment …
Finding families for orphan issues
European organisations are joining forces in critical shareholding but there’s a long road ahead This story begins in Italy in the 1990s, when a series of pacifist, environmental, trade union and fair trade organisations created …
Making philanthropy’s superpower super
How foundations are choosing their investments and engaging with companies to shape the future Philanthropy has an unlikely but critical superpower, as Danielle Walker-Palmour says in her lead article: investment. European foundations have over 500 …
Hitting the bull’s-eye
Foundations’ missions and investments won’t always be perfectly aligned, but the centre of the target is always worth aiming for Whatever stage foundations have reached in aligning their investments with their mission, there are common …
Moving at the speed of trust
Helping communities overcome layers of disadvantage requires investments of trust as well as money The multiple ingrained challenges that disadvantaged communities face can only be addressed by authentically trusting, empowering and engaging the community to …