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Inside Oak Foundation – an interview with Christopher Parker
Interview: Christopher Parker, Trustee of Oak Foundation Oak Foundation is probably not one of the first names which comes to mind when you think of major foundations, yet in terms of funding and influence, it …
Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to receive Distinguished Service Award
The Council on Foundations is to award Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Distinguished Service Award. The award honors and celebrates a visionary leader who embodies the inspirational qualities that define excellence …
New civil society: the start of something special or just a rebrand?
This week, more than 100 participants met for the EFC Grantmakers East Forum 2018 in Budapest. In the midst of discussions around shrinking civic space and failures of democracy, this year’s Forum focused on ‘Reframing …
Income for development sector grows 59 per cent in ten years
A report launched today by Bond, has found that overall income for 305 of its members grew by 59 per cent in ten years and stood at £3.8 billion at April 2016, compared to the …
Foundations with increasing appetite to campaign, to advocate and lobby
Executive Editor of Alliance magazine, Charles Keidan, is interviewed by Association of German Foundations ahead of the launch of #NextPhilanthropy – a new, distributed information resource of condensed data, trends, analysis on what is or may be next in …
A new era for Muslim philanthropy?
Muslim Philanthropy is vast, and it was inevitably going to be difficult to dissect such a rich topic over a three-day event. However, this year’s Global Donors Forum was a wholehearted attempt. Insights were crammed …
Audacious philanthropy redefined
‘What did you really think of the opening plenary?’ That was the question I got from several colleagues at the Innovations in International Philanthropy Forum. They figured I would be skeptical as a grantmaker to …
Advocating for philanthropy in Europe
An emboldened coalition can make the case to EU institutions of the importance of philanthropy to Europe’s future The activity and effectiveness of European philanthropy over the past years has been significantly shaped and partly …
Philanthropy in Egypt and Turkey
The practice of community giving has experienced mixed fortunes amid profound national developments In 2004, the Ford Foundation funded a study to understand the relationship between philanthropy and social justice in predominantly Muslim societies, including …
Calling time on top-down approach
Browsing through the June 2018 issue, I was struck by the interview with Scottish philanthropist, Sir Ian Wood. Notwithstanding that his philanthropy undoubtedly has had some positive impact, I was surprised by Wood’s somewhat anachronistic …