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AVPN 2023: Empowering Asian Solutions for Global Challenges
AVPN Global Conference 2023 brought together leaders from Asia and beyond, to collectively envision an impact future that is inclusive, equitable and sustainable. Importantly, this convening was an opportunity to build the trust between social …
Pakistani philanthropy hit hard amid deepening economic turmoil
Pakistan’s financial crisis, caused by a long delay in the $1.1 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund, is severely hitting its philanthropic sector. It could mean more cutbacks in charitable programmes already struggling. The rupee’s massive devaluation and …
Global challenges, Asian Solutions
Transformational collaboration, Asian leadership, empowered communities, urgent action: AVPN CEO Naina Batra offered these four rallying cries in her opening remarks of this year’s conference in Kuala Lumpur. These themes or some combination were to …
Interview: Ajay Piramal
One of the keynote speakers at this year’s AVPN Conference was Ajay Piramal, Chairman of the Piramal Group and the Piramal Foundation. Is he wearing two hats, a corporate one and a philanthropic one? Not …
Elie Wiesel Foundation announces inaugural grants for China’s persecuted Uyghur minority
The Elie-Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, founded by a Holocaust survivor and led by prominent Israeli human rights activists, is injecting its first round of grant making towards initiatives advocating and protecting China’s ethnic Uyghur minority. …
Understanding India’s social sector funding landscape
The funding landscape in India remains rather enigmatic for non-profit organizations. The limitations of accessing first-hand information on giving behaviours often deter Indian non-profits from undertaking targeted outreach. And unlike in the USA and Europe, …
What does it truly take for funders to nurture equitable systems change?
In mission-driven circles, systems-change work – which is focused on the root causes of problems – is sometimes treated like an unattainable dream. But it doesn’t have to be. In studying successful equitable social-change efforts …
Asia Philanthropy Circle, Tanoto Foundation release early childhood study
Singapore-based Asia Philanthropy Circle and 12 other philanthropic organisations, including the Tanoto Foundation, have released a study looking into early childhood development in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore. Persistent issues in malnutrition and stunting …
Aga Khan Foundation partners with Pakistani bank to combat floods legacy
Aga Khan Foundation partners with Pakistani bank to combat the legacy of last summer’s devastating floods. The Aga Khan Foundation has partnered with Bank Alfalah, one of Pakistan’s largest commercial banks, to provide essential health …
Asian Youth Wellbeing Fund announced by AVPN
The $3 million fund announced at the AVPN Global Conference 2023 is the first philanthropic pooled fund that focuses on youth mental wellbeing across Southeast Asia and South Asia, with AVPN being supported by Yayasan …
