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Interview – Rishi Khosla
Although philanthropy in India is undergoing a boom, there is little evidence of what effect this is having. In order to begin to remedy this, New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and India-based organization Copal Partners began …
Interview – Lisa Jordan and Trude Maas-de Brouwer
Lisa Jordan left the Ford Foundation to take up the post of Executive Director of the Netherlands-based Bernard van Leer Foundation at the beginning of July. What does she bring to her new role from …
Interview – Deval Sanghavi and Neera Nundy
Dasra – which means ‘enlightened giving’ or ‘doing wonderful deeds’ in Sanskrit – was initially set up as India’s first venture philanthropy fund in 1999 under the name of Impact Partners by Deval Sanghavi, Neera …
Interview – Emilio Rui Vilar
Poverty is like slavery, argued Emilio Rui Vilar of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and it too can be ended: by redistribution. These words were spoken at the opening plenary of this year’s European Foundation Centre …
Interview – Sonal Shah
Sonal Shah, head of the new White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, discusses with Matthew Bishop the opportunity to dramatically improve the impact of the best non-profit ideas, the intermediate role for …
Interview – Susan Bell
With the Copenhagen summit looming in December, does the economic crisis offer new opportunities for the fight against global warming? Of the foundations active in tackling climate change, the US’s William and Flora Hewlett Foundation …
Interview – Stephen Dawson: An ambitious venture?
Stephen Dawson has recently announced his intention of stepping down from the chair of the Impetus Trust, the venture philanthropy fund he co-founded six years ago, to launch Jacana Venture Partnership, an organization that will …
Interview – Farhana Faruqi Stocker
‘We’ve never left’ proclaims the website of the charity Afghanaid, highlighting a running total of almost 9,700 days – well over 26 years – of continuous operation in the war-strewn country that has proved a …
Interview – Aryeh Neier
George Soros began funding open society initiatives in the then Eastern bloc some 25 years ago, significantly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. What inspired this decision, how have things changed since then, and …
Interview – Ivan Krastev
Politics and social change are all about people and governments, aren’t they? So what role have the region’s think-tanks played in the transition of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe over the …
