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Wrestling with the accountability challenge
I greatly enjoyed reading the special feature on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the September issue of Alliance. Discussing openly issues of accountability and impact related to the foundation is incredibly important, especially …
Evaluation is the real key to accountability
Thank you for the interesting feature on the Gates Foundation in the last issue of Alliance. Clearly there are some people who remain concerned about the accountability of the Gates Foundation. However, the topic is …
Philanthropists as role models
I would like to congratulate you for the recent issue of Alliance looking at the effect of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on the ecosystem of philanthropy. The different aspects that were covered by …
Does size matter?
Thanks must go to Alliance for highlighting one of the most challenging of all issues in philanthropy – the power and influence of significant size; and the freedom that philanthropy enjoys where accountability is not …
We are all Gates now
The emergence of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a major force in global public health and US public education should be welcomed by those who believe in the promise of philanthropy to address …
Putting Gates in perspective
Thank you for another great issue. Alliance just keeps getting better and better! My only quibble with the interesting views expressed concerning the Gates Foundation was the general lack of historical understanding of foundations. I …
Using grants to catalyse impact investment
The case studies on Husk Power and Greenlight Planet (June issue of Alliance) are great examples of the innovation that is taking place in the social impact space in India. The use of pooled capital …
Onward, Ms Meyer!
What a pleasure it was to read Bonny Meyer’s personal account of her journey to mobilize all her assets for impact in the June issue of Alliance! We should each recognize her vision is increasingly …
The benefits of acting alone
The special issue of Alliance on donor collaboration (March 2011) was a bit of a shock. I expected the customary ‘happy-glad’ support for donor collaboration, but I was surprised – and pleased – by the …
A different model of collaboration
We recently read with great interest your March edition, which focused on the question ‘When does collaboration make sense?’ In response we would like to draw your attention to an example of a different model …
