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Peer dialogue: Funding the future of Africa
According to the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the Covid-19 pandemic pushed 62 million non-poor Africans into poverty and half of the continent’s population now lives below the poverty line. On the other hand, 22 …
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 …
Marième Daff announced as Firelight Foundation executive director
Marième Daff has been announced as the Firelight Foundation’s new executive director. Daff has over 20 years of experience with a background in women’s economic empowerment, social inclusion, and gender-sensitive programming, primarily in Africa. She …
Gates Foundation funds generative AI projects across Global South
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is distributing $5 million to 48 recipients across the Global South, as part of a programme aimed at developing AI-based applications built on large language models dedicated to solve …
From Unicorn to Zebra: The transformation of ZGF
I recently came across an article about venture capital structures and how they interact and work with start-ups. The article argued that the venture capital structure is broken because it favours ‘quantity over quality, consumption …
Sudanese Feminist Sisterhood: At the frontline of radical resistance and solidarity
In loving memory of Roya Hassan and Ahmad Sibar, our comrade activists, friends, and siblings, whose absent presence will linger around, reminding us of their power and all the battles they won for women and …
Sudan in two-billion-dollar funding shortfall amid ongoing fighting
The United Nations (UN) estimates that Sudan has an almost two-billion-dollar shortfall in funding urgently needed to help displaced people, amid the ongoing conflict that has raged between the Sudanese government and powerful paramilitary forces …
Making the invisible seen and heard
This opinion piece is part of Propel Philanthropy’s Collaborative Media Campaign and a response to Rose Maruru’s article, Infrastructure is Invisible but Critical for Systems Change. To provide context, her organization, EPIC Africa, launched the …
Turning philanthropy inside out: The power of listening to community voices in Malawi
I often wonder if we were to construct a solutions enterprise to address global inequity and injustice, whether we would construct the nonprofit and civil society sectors as they are today. Would we bind giving …
