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Philanthropedia publishes self-assessment
Philanthropedia, which ranks non-profits on the basis of soliciting and analysing experts’ opinions, has produced a white paper entitled ‘Consolidating Expert Opinion about High-Impact Nonprofits: Review of Philanthropedia’s Methodology’. Through consideration of the four areas …
Philanthropedia publishes self-assessment
Philanthropedia, which ranks non-profits on the basis of soliciting and analysing experts’ opinions, has produced a white paper entitled ‘Consolidating Expert Opinion about High-Impact Nonprofits: Review of Philanthropedia’s Methodology’. Through consideration of the four areas …
How would you have spent $10 billion? Eight prominent philanthropists and charity chief executives give their views
Bill Gates’ pledge at Davos of $10 billion over the coming decade to help develop vaccines and distribute them to children in the developing world prompted the Wall Street Journal Europe to ask a number …
How would you have spent $10 billion? Eight prominent philanthropists and charity chief executives give their views
Bill Gates’ pledge at Davos of $10 billion over the coming decade to help develop vaccines and distribute them to children in the developing world prompted the Wall Street Journal Europe to ask a number …
Beyond hero worship – a Stranglers’ theme tune for Skoll
The Skoll Forum is the time of year when half the world – the world of social enterprise, that is – seems to descend on England and for a few days everyone marvels at the …
Beyond the scattergun?
There is now widespread recognition that ‘the hour is late’ in relation to the global and systemic environmental challenges faced by humanity. Recent research into funding for environmental causes, however, shows that while environmental grantmaking …
Getting to maybe
The cover photo of a butterfly poised for flight represents the so-called ‘butterfly effect’, the idea that seemingly trivial events can have a great impact on complex adaptive systems. The tiny movement of air from …
Small grants and social change
When the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust more than doubled in size in 1988 following the takeover of the Rowntree Company by Nestlé, an interesting debate took place within the trust over whether it should split …
Making small grants: where to start
Grassroots Grantmakers Grassroots Grantmakers is a community of funders whose projects work at a local or community level. The organization does not fund projects directly, but instead seeks to build connections between funders and facilitate …
Interview – Kumi Naidoo
Few people would disagree that the outcome of the recent Copenhagen conference was very disappointing. But are there positive things that we can build on, Caroline Hartnell asked Kumi Naidoo, the new executive director of …