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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 …
Interview – Sandra Breka
The European Fund for the Balkans was established in 2007 by four European Foundations: Robert Bosch Stiftung, King Baudouin Foundation, Compagnia di San Paolo and the ERSTE Foundation. What is the main aim of the …
Interview – Akwasi Aidoo, Christine Edwards and Lyndall Stein
The generation of new funders known as ‘philanthrocapitalists’, including not just Bill Gates but others such as Jeff Skoll and Rohini Nilekani and Jamie Cooper-Hohn of the UK’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation are very big …
Interview – Paul Brest, Jed Emerson, Katherina Rosqueta, Brian Trelstad and Michael Weinstein
One of the most perennially vexing questions in philanthropy is how to assess the impact of funding, especially where there’s no obvious way of putting a price on the end product. A recently published paper …
Interview – Geoff Scott – Combining the traditional and the modern
Much discussion of indigenous philanthropy centres on building on the traditions of indigenous peoples. As Geoff Scott, Chief Executive of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (ALC), sees it, it is the dynamism of …
Interview – Astrid Bonfield
The ground-breaking Oslo Treaty banning cluster munitions was adopted by 107 states in Dublin in May 2008 and signed in Oslo on 3 December. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund has been supporting the …
Interview – Peter Heller
In 1997, Peter Heller and his family established the Canopus Foundation, whose support for clean energy encompasses grantmaking, social investment and networking. For Heller, it was ‘a logical way to go’. His own private equity …
Interview – Uday Khemka
The special feature in this issue of Alliance looks at why foundations on the whole are failing to respond to emerging issues such as climate change in any way that is commensurate to the scale …
Interview – Jane Wales
The new ‘On the Grapevine’ column in the September issue of Alliance wondered whether Jane Wales was the most powerful woman in global philanthropy. So Alliance went straight to the source and asked her about …
Interview – Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
Are the super-rich the new super-heroes of the world stage, as Matthew Bishop and Michael Green claim in Philanthrocapitalism: How the rich can save the world? Are there limits to what philanthrocapitalists can achieve? Is …
