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It’s the System, stupid! A comment on Co-Impact
Co-Impact, ‘a new model of collaborative philanthropy’, aims to address ‘systems change’ through large-scale, long-term and strategic grant-making. I welcome the debate that this initiative is generating in Alliance and elsewhere. Olivia Leland, founder and …
Co-Impact: well-endowed, but can it shift the power?
Towards the end of last year, foundations and philanthropists including the Rockefeller Foundation, Richard Chandler, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jeff Skoll and Romesh and Kathy Wadhwani, launched the Co-impact initiative, a collaboration to bring ‘large-scale, …
Interview: Sean Hinton of Open Society Foundations
Migrants are here to stay – let’s invest in them. That’s the message of the man responsible for the impact investments of the world’s second largest foundation. 65 million people are on the move worldwide. …
Banging on the door – Women’s fight for a voice and space in civil society
The space for civil society organizations is shrinking around the world, with particular impacts on women activists and human rights defenders who face additional barriers due to their gender or sexual orientation. Civil society organizations …
Our key findings from five years of mapping human rights funding
When a problem comes along, you must map it! At least, that’s how that’s how Human Rights Funding Network’s Executive Director phrased it when we and the Foundation Center launched our Advancing Human Rights initiative. Recognizing a knowledge gap in …
Transparency and philanthropy – an oxymoron in India? Not anymore.
India has traditionally been a philanthropic culture with giving ingrained in all of its major religions, a part of everyday life. However, both formal and informal giving in India have mainly been private matters, the …
What the Skoll Global Threats Fund learnt with its $100 million
The first president of eBay, Jeff Skoll, set up his Global Threats Fund in 2010 to ‘make progress against five of the gravest threats to humanity’: climate change, pandemics, water security, nuclear proliferation, and conflict …
Patrick Gaspard appointed President of Open Society Foundations
A former US ambassador to South Africa, is to succeed Chris Stone as President of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), with effect from 1 January 2018. Patrick Gaspard will become the head of what is …
‘Philanthropy in India’ report sparks questions…and opportunity
Recently, Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace (PSJP), in association with Alliance magazine, Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS), and the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University, released a highly anticipated thought piece on …
New paper challenges grantmakers to ‘learn new tricks’
Dan Corry, chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital, and Paul Streets, chief executive of Lloyds Bank Foundation, today published their ‘provocation paper’, Grant-makers must learn new tricks. Inspired by two other reports, More than Grants, …