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Mixed reactions to the SDGs from Africa
Alliance asked a number of African organisations how the SDGs inform their work and how useful they found them as a means of determining their own priorities. Here are the responses, in their own words …
A blueprint for peace and prosperity
Jan Sahas, a community and survivor-centric NPO working across India has embraced the SDGs not because it has been forced to by donor demands, but because they are proving a useful way to organise and …
Asian philanthropy: Differently does it…
The 2023 AVPN Global Conference in Kuala Lumpur illuminated how Asian philanthropy does not always operate in the same way as elsewhere One of the perennial fascinations of the AVPN conference is seeing the differences …
SDG-speak in our own backyards
How are high-income countries falling short on the SDGs? The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrate that economic prowess is not a guarantee of success. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the US was not on track …
SDGs: Lots of action what about progress?
In December 2015, Alliance published a special feature on philanthropy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Titled Why philanthropy should care about the SDGs, the issue’s guest editors, Heather Grady, Bheki Moyo and Sevdalina Rukanova, hailed …
Sustainable development: Know your audience
The SDGs can provide a valuable means of aligning and measuring efforts towards sustainable development – even more so when they are customised to local circumstances Comunalia is the Alliance of Community Foundations of Mexico, …
Philanthropy for an uncertain future
A study of Latin American responses to the SDGs provides a microcosm of attitudes to be found globally During the late 1990s, a group of experts started using the acronym VUCA to describe the increasing …
Bloomberg Philanthropies team up with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in a bid to boost clean energy
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced a new collaboration aiming to boost clean energy deployment across Asia. In a statement, both the investment bank and the global philanthropy arm of …
Review: From Charity to Change: Inside the World of Canadian Foundations
The model of the charitable foundation is increasingly under criticism. ‘Wealth draws envy and philanthropy draws suspicion’ is one of Hilary Pearson’s many punchy phrases. Her book about the world of Canadian foundations is a …
Blended finance initiative led by UBS Optimus Foundation attracts major backing
A $100 million “blended finance” sustainable goals initiative described as a “one of the first of its kind” has attracted key backing. British International Investment, the development financial institution of the UK government, and the …