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Just Giving conference 2014 Day 1: An exciting conversation beginning …
A pre-conference meeting preceded the opening welcome panel, and already the contradictions and challenges of defining ‘community philanthropy’ have come to the fore. The organizers of Edge Funders’ Just Giving Conference in Berkeley, CA, to …
New cross-sector collaborations to address global problems
A new cross-sector partnership, US Global Development Lab, aims to end extreme poverty by 2030 by adopting a science-and-technology-based approach to international development. The partnership, led by USAID, draws in just about every other sector, …
Interview with Robert Rubinstein, founder of TBLI
In trying to get the business community to participate in an economy which takes into account people and the environment, not just profit, Robert Rubinstein, founder of TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investing), doesn’t put his …
Interview with Robert Rubinstein
In trying to get the business community to participate in an economy which takes into account people and the environment, not just profit, Robert Rubinstein, founder of TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investing), doesn’t put his …
DFID and UK foundations: let’s keep in touch
M-KOPA Solar, a small start-up company based in Nairobi, Kenya, helps low-income consumers in off-grid communities access what would normally be prohibitively expensive energy products such as solar home systems. Repayments are made in small …
Bringing grantmaking in from the cold
Increasingly, the practice of grantmaking as a tool for bringing about social change has fallen out of favour, replaced by newer, snappier-sounding forms of philanthropy. In laying out their wares, venture philanthropy, strategic philanthropy, philanthrocapitalism …
A greater role for philanthropy in development co-operation
On the east side of New York, the year has gotten off to a busy start at the UN with meetings of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. Although I’ve participated in multilateral …
Global ‘next gen’ trends
I’ve been a ‘next gen’ donor for 13 years, ever since I began getting involved in philanthropy after discovering as a graduate student that my family had a small foundation. Slowly philanthropy began to permeate …
Richer Lives – Why rich people give
At the start of October I was fortunate enough to be invited to the launch of Beth Breeze and Theresa Lloyd’s Richer Lives: Why rich people give. Focused on the motivations and giving practices of …
Just published: Jeremy Leggett calls on foundations to wake up to risk taking in the global energy system
‘The long-awaited fifth IPCC scientific assessment of climate change poses society with big questions, once again, about how to handle high-consequence but slow-burning risks.’ So writes Jeremy Leggett, chair of Carbon Tracker and founder and …