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Back to school!
Even after the passage of years, those words might strike dismay into the heart of many an adult. Or perhaps not if you are going to the CAF Foundation School. The Foundation School has been …
Facts about philanthropy in emerging economies: China, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey and Russia
Philanthropy in China The 2004 Regulations on Foundation Management created a distinction between public and private foundations. The first are allowed to raise funds publicly, whereas the latter are not. Most public foundations are GONGOs …
New horizons
The economic boom of BRICS and MINT countries coupled with the unequal distribution of this growth presents new opportunities and challenges for philanthropy in emerging markets. Among them are different approaches to giving, lukewarm relationships …
Shapes and colours of emerging markets philanthropy
This article is based on those nominations for the Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize that did not make it to the shortlist for the reasons explained in the special supplement in this magazine. Many of them …
The biggest foundation you’ve never heard of
Despite the best intentions, funders often inadvertently sabotage their own efforts to support collaboration. When it comes to getting grants, non-profit leaders are often rewarded for organizational achievements and building their own brand rather than …
Using networks to tackle complex problems
In 2003, Garfield Foundation board meetings focused on the impressive impact of our individual grantees while at the same time lamenting the seemingly insurmountable challenges of moving society towards greater ecological and social sustainability. We …
Worth the membership dues?
Other articles in this special feature have emphasized the value of networks in the natural world. Can a similar case be made for philanthropy networks – by which we mean here membership associations? They are …
Networking among the urban poor
Networking is seen as the apple pie in development … everyone says it’s good and organizations are urged to do it, regardless of what categories of association or organization they are part of. In development, …
AGN – marching on optimistically
In the world of philanthropy networks, the African Grantmakers Network (AGN) is a very new one. What is its vision and what is needed to realize it? What will it take to make this new …
Beyond networks
Networks are about relationships, or, to be more precise, they are a language to describe and graphically model flows and interactions, in our case mainly between humans or organizations. Historically this language borrows its vocabulary …