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Interview – Steve Gunderson
This year’s Council on Foundations (CoF) Conference bills itself as a leadership summit and ‘a singular opportunity to come together with your colleagues from across the country and around the world as one great movement …
A funder’s guide to direct action
Last summer, the Camp for Climate Action was dominating newspaper headlines. All with no formal organization, no staff and no budget to speak of. But the corridors at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship were …
What other association leaders said…
Alliance asked a group of association leaders from different parts of the world to respond to Steve Gunderson’s interview and the idea of holding an all-embracing Philanthropy Summit. This is what they said. Gerry Salole …
Cambridge Associates’ MRI initiative may be sign of growing trend
Financial advisers Cambridge Associates have launched a partnership with the F B Heron Foundation, the Anne E Casey Foundation and the Meyer Memorial Trust Foundation to develop a mission-related investing (MRI) research initiative. The areas …
Council on Foundations – Council on Foundations hosts Philanthropy Leadership Summit
By the time many of you read this column, ‘Philanthropy’s Vision: A Leadership Summit’, hosted by the Council on Foundations, will be taking place (4-7 May) near Washington DC. The Summit is a one-time event …
Woburn Place Collaborative Colloquium
Event First Woburn Place Collaborative Annual Colloquium Date 6-8 December 2007 Venue Long Ditton, UK The character of foundation intervention, the nature of collaboration, and the raison d’être of the Woburn Place Collaborative (WPC) itself …
Migrants and their remittances: new hybrids for development
A hybrid develops when two different things are combined. Clearly, some 200 million migrants worldwide and the earnings they remit to their home countries are two different things. Migrants, the first part of the hybrid, …
Interview – Mal Warwick
Resource Alliance’s eighth International Workshop on Resource Mobilization will take place in Malaysia in May. Caroline Hartnell talked to Mal Warwick, Chair of Resource Alliance, about the event. What is the potential for local resource …
Interview – Nick Young
Nick Young founded China Development Brief in 1995 to report on efforts to achieve fair and sustainable development in China. Twelve years later it has been closed down by the Chinese government and Young’s visa …
The impact industry: who needs it?
‘If the call of the last decade of the 20th century was accountability, the mantra of the new millennium is impact,’ said Barry Gaberman, former Senior Vice President of the Ford Foundation, in his closing …