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Interview – Jonathan Fanton
The MacArthur Foundation is best known for its Fellows Program, which celebrates individual creativity. Each year, 25 people in diverse fields receive a phone call out of the blue granting them the freedom to do …
Interview – Rodrigo Baggio
Since he was given his first computer, Rodrigo Baggio’s life has been dominated by two passions – technology and working with disadvantaged young people. In 1993, he had a dream that suggested a way to …
Interview – Melissa Berman, Salvatore LaSpada and Felicitas von Peter
The big news in the world of philanthropy – as everybody by now must have heard ad nauseam – is Warren Buffett’s decision to give the bulk of his reputed $44 billion fortune to the …
Interview – Venkat Krishnan and Pushpa Singh
Founded in 2000, GiveIndia is an Indian NGO dedicated to promoting giving and greater transparency and accountability in the voluntary sector. Five years on, GiveIndia has established a role as a broker between would-be donors …
Interview – Kumi Naidoo
There are always problems trying to reconcile the various elements of a coalition, but CSOs aren’t going to have the impact they want by acting independently, insists CIVICUS Secretary General Kumi Naidoo. So, for him, …
Interview – Buzz Schmidt
GuideStar aims to provide good-quality information about a large number of a country’s civil society organizations in accessible and highly searchable form and free of charge. After a decade operating in the US, GuideStar has …
Interview – Won Soon Park
It is generally believed that it is extremely difficult to engage large numbers of people in giving to a community foundation, especially when the concept is unknown; that it is even more difficult to persuade …
Interview – Jed Emerson
We need new ways of capitalizing social enterprise because individual social enterprises are not getting the right kinds of capital at the right time, principally because of the outmoded nature of the non-profit capital market. …
Interview – Robert Dunn
In November, Robert Dunn became President of the Synergos Institute, bringing with him wide experience of working in all three sectors. Alliance asked him how this experience and what he describes as his collaborative style …
Interview – Rayna Gavrilova
The Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe emerged at the end of the 1990s as a joint initiative of six donors with substantial track records of grantmaking in the region. Its remit: …
