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Reader survey: Philanthropy’s response to Covid-19
In October 2020, Alliance magazine conducted a survey to learn more about how the global philanthropy sector was reacting to Covid-19. We received 250 responses from readers in 59 countries around the world.* In your …
Global Updates
This is our round-up of philanthropy news around the world featured in the December 2020 issue of Alliance: The Americas Record $4.2 billion pledged to racial equity causes Chuck Feeney donates $8 billion fortune AFE …
In pursuit of reciprocity: Speaking with Gerry Salole
Former Alliance editor Caroline Hartnell first interviewed Gerry Salole 15 years ago, when he had just taken on the role of CEO at the European Foundation Centre (EFC). This interview comes at the end of …
Green energy investment to increase, but more will be needed
A new report reveals that investment into renewable energy is likely to increase significantly over the next five years. According to Climate Action, over one-third of investors surveyed believe that the Covid-19 crisis has made …
Repair, recycle, renovate?
What Europe and the transatlantic relationship can expect from a United States with Joe Biden as President. An Irish-American Catholic speaking with the Pope ‘The President-elect expressed his desire to work together on the basis …
Alliance survey reveals mental health issues rising in global philanthropy sector
More than half of respondents to an Alliance survey reported that the mental health and well-being of people in their organisation has deteriorated since the Covid-19 pandemic started. This is one of the key findings …
Why do feminists continue to receive just 1% of all gender equality funding?
The answer lies, in part, in how funders fund. Feminist movements are key drivers of transformative and lasting change; the case for why they need more and better funding has been increasingly heard. Now, the …
Our investments should not drive the problems we ask grantees to solve
In this moment of great social, economic, and ecological upheaval, it is abundantly clear that we need fundamental and systemic changes to our economy. Fifty years of Milton Friedman’s doctrine of shareholder primacy and maximisation …
Wallace Global, Sierra Club Foundation hit back at divestment ‘virtue signalling’ claims
It is ‘intellectually dishonest’ for foundations to separate the values that govern their grantmaking from how they manage their investments, say two of the leading voices in the Divest-Invest movement writing in Alliance magazine today. …
Countering the biodiversity crisis with new funding models
Biodiversity loss and associated ecosystem collapse is an urgent global challenge – one of the top five risks to humanity according to the World Economic Forum. During the past 50 years, 60 per cent of …