On his 89th birthday, Nelson Mandela brought together a group of world-renowned figures who will use their ‘almost 1,000 years of collective experience’, and their ability to speak freely and to work ‘without any personal …

The July edition of APPC Post features climate change under the heading ‘Tackling THE global environmental issue’. Among initiatives and events featured was the Philippines’ Corporate Social Responsibility Expo in July, which showcased businesses’ green …

Accountability: Delivering Results, the theme of the CIVICUS World Assembly, held in Glasgow, Scotland in June, drew over 1,000 participants. Of these, 40 per cent concluded in the opening plenary that the world’s problems are …

Addressing the closing plenary of the European Foundation Centre 18th Annual General Assembly and Conference in Madrid in early June, Barry Gaberman spoke of ‘a buzz in the hallways’. The conference, New Challenges for Global …

The Grantmakers Without Borders annual conference drew over 200 funders, individual donors and civil society activists to New York in June. Two hot topics for discussion were microcredit and the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations’ new …

The question whether foundations can – and should – use their stock market investments to influence corporate behaviour is often asked, not least in these pages. In March’s Alliance, Stephen Pittam of the Joseph Rowntree …

Global warming is now at the top of almost every social, political and economic agenda around the globe, and the non-profit sector deserves much of the credit for this. In the face of powerful special …

Climate change and loss of natural resources and biodiversity are two of the great challenges of the 21st century – yet they are ignored by most established foundations, by the new ‘philanthrocapitalists’, and by government …

Scientists and pressure groups seem finally to have won the argument: even among erstwhile deniers in the US, there’s a reluctant acceptance that climate change might not be just one more item on a long …

Despite high levels of media coverage of climate change, there are few signs of significant changes in public behaviour. Public concern about climate change is growing everywhere. In the UK, for example, more than 70 …