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A platform for transformation
A country-specific philanthropy infrastructure organisation with a defined role to transform philanthropy in South Africa. In a country in dire need of transformative change, the Independent Philanthropy Association South Africa (IPASA) serves as the only …
Funding strategic communications is key for social change in Africa
Young Africans, armed with unfettered creativity, mobile data, and keyboards, are pushing powerful groups to overhaul unjust practices. The Fees Must Fall campaign in South Africa, as well as the deCOALONIZE movement in Kenya, are …
Moving money to girls
Since the very first days of Purposeful, we have known that to build power with girls and their allies is to move resources directly to them. For what is a discussion of power without a …
Civil society in a world of crisis: An overview of the 2023 State of Civil Society Report
In the last year, civil society workers have been repressed in Belarus and Russia for opposing the war on Ukraine, physically attacked in Afghanistan for supporting the right to education for girls, and judicially persecuted …
CAPSI, Mastercard Foundation partner on $8m project for youth employment in Africa
The Mastercard Foundation has provided support to the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at the Wits Business School in South Africa to enable research on knowledge and opportunities for youth employment in …
Women can take a bigger lead in giving, says African philanthropist
Philanthropist Tsitsi Masiyiwa wants to create more pathways for women funders who have historically been limited by traditional gender roles. ‘We have women funders, but there are very few’, Masiyiwa said to DevEx. Masiyiwa is …
Building it to last
A powerful new vision of philanthropy on the African continent took hold at the Indaba hosted by TrustAfrica and Urgent Action Fund–Africa in Naivasha, Kenya earlier this year. We re-imagined modes of philanthropy that are …
Funders, what are you communicating with your grant systems?
Social justice movements consistently work, sometimes at great risk, to make this world a better place. Funding that promotes movement building is one of the best ways in which funders can advance social and environmental …
What’s my purpose in philanthropy? I discovered it in Africa
Twenty years ago, I was an International Human Rights Law LLM Exchange Student at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. One night I went to the weekly session of a psychic at …
