Letters

The article written by Diana Mitlin and Sheela Patel (September 2005 issue of Alliance, p27) about their successful experiences at SDI is interesting but fails adequately to understand the breadth and flexibility of a rights-based …

In every sector of society, including our own, there are passing fashions. This certainly applies to the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social investing, which are arguably hyped up ‘trends’. Every new fashion clearly brings …

This year’s Skoll World Forum managed to sustain last year’s remarkable degree of excitement and optimism. Once again the meeting involved a rich diversity of people and organizations exhibiting a hunger for new ways of …

Many thanks for Caroline Hartnell’s concise and issue-oriented thumbnail sketch of the Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC) in the December issue of Alliance. I share her (implicit) sense of the wider significance of the …

The recent article by Bremner and Grant (‘Bridging the cultural gap’)[1] raises many important issues regarding the difference between for-profits and non-profits, with implications for relationships between the two. Understanding this terrain is of critical …

In reply to Helmut K Anheier and Diana Leat’s response[2] to my review of From Charity to Creativity[3], I would like to make an additional point. My main criticism was that their research was thin …

Without entering into the interesting debate in Alliance between Helmut Anheier and Diana Leat on the one hand and Rodney Hedley on the other, I want to make an observation that affirms Anheier and Leat …

Our purpose in writing From Charity to Creativity was to open up a debate on the future of philanthropy. We feel that Rodney Hedley’s review in the last issue of Alliance[1] unfortunately got this debate …