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How foundations can re‑think strategies to benefit the SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals should concern foundations interested in international development, considering the unprecedented collaborative process by which the goals were negotiated, the political consensus around their adoption, as well as their universality. Moreover, the …
Partnering for the public good: an SDG strategy
The evolving interaction between foundations and government in the Netherlands could either excite people in the foundation community or worry them. The Dutch government signed a landmark agreement with foundations, called ‘Space for Private Giving’, …
Philanthropy should track SDG progress
The global community of development practitioners should take pride in the achievement of a consensus move from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the SDGs. The process has not been smooth. There are still disagreements …
Teach development
The Sustainable Development Goals set a new vision for the future of our societies: unlike their predecessors, the MDGs, they don’t distinguish between developed and developing countries and they are meant to be applied universally. …
Case study – Community philanthropy chimes with SDGs
Implementing goals, community by community The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have arrived after years of dialogue. Where the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were formulated in United Nations offices – one was even added as …
Case study – Addressing inequality amid plenty: the SDGs and the United States
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an opportunity to not only address challenges in developing countries, but also to make progress on many of the same challenges that persist in ‘developed’ countries. Each of the …
Case study – SDG success hinges on political will
Foundations and civil society should stand ready to ensure that government has the political will to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, not just in developing countries but also in developed ones. The Millennium Development Goals …
Foundations may pay price for under‑valuing research
The need for innovation in tackling today’s unprecedented social and economic challenges is generally embraced by foundations. In stark contrast, the need for greater investment in its twin, the research essential to discovering, incubating and …
The bricks and mortar – steel and glass – of social change
The case for investing in capital projects Laying Foundations for Change memorializes the capital investments of The Atlantic Philanthropies, which concludes its grantmaking in 2016 and its work in 2020. With work by Magnum Photos, …
Case study – Shared goals for public good: the city as a laboratory of change
Transforming the urban development models that produce exclusion and inequality is no longer an option. It is a major mandate on the global agenda. Goal 11 of the SDGs, for example, focuses on making ‘cities …