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Is it nice to have a NICE?
What would happen if we decided which social interventions to fund based purely on the evidence of their efficacy? If we are to believe the current rhetoric, a lot more effective interventions would get funded, …
Rising above the five star bubble: Albie Sachs ends EFC conference on a high note
Well, seven stars in Rome, I’m told … Going to a philanthropy conference tends to feel like being in a five-star bubble hovering way above people’s everyday lives discussing important issues of poverty and exclusion. …
Interesting times for philanthropy and civil society in China
This past month has been an interesting one for civil society in China because there have once again been a large number of developments and press stories that bear on the sector and its needs. …
Why is everyone talking about risk? Read the new issue of Alliance to find out
Everyone seems to be talking about risk: this is the focus of the June issue of Alliance, which has just been published. It was also a major theme emerging from the Bellagio Summit on the Future …
What about gender justice investing?
Regarding an otherwise excellent special feature on resilience investing, I was missing a discussion of gender justice grantmaking/investing (besides mentioning SEWA). As Mary Robinson, president of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, recently reminded …
Opening up the gender conversation
Does using a gender lens strengthen a foundation’s ability to effect social change in their communities and beyond? Yes, it can… but the focus should not be limited to funding projects targeting women and girls. …
The art and science of seizing opportunities
Foundation leaders are often heard to make comments that ‘foundations can take risks that others cannot’ or that ‘foundations are society’s risk capital’. But is this actually so? To what extent do foundations currently integrate …
Interview – Don Mohanlal
What do we mean by risk in the context of foundations, Caroline Hartnell asked Don Mohanlal, president and CEO of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation. In particular, what does he think about high risk/high …
Interview – Johannes Meier
Risks don’t come any bigger than the danger that climate change will become irreversible. The European Climate Foundation (ECF) serves as a conduit for the climate change mitigation funding of a group of European and …
Risk management for development
Development in the 21st century will have little resemblance to its 20th-century antecedent. It must change dramatically or it won’t succeed. Why? Because it has to take into account a series of global threats that …