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Patience: The Missing Piece of Your Fundraising Strategy
The frequency of disasters – from floods, to earthquakes, hurricanes and war – is borderline desensitizing. There’s one thing, however, that never fails to fill me with hope: no matter where tragedy strikes, people and …
How small grants can empower local communities to tackle air pollution
Everyone deserves to have access to clean air. And yet, 99 percent of the world’s population still breathe air that is harmful and dirty. In the UK alone, it causes approximately 40,000 early deaths each …
Climate Philanthropy in Action: Youth Voices Echoing Through COP28
Climate philanthropy goes beyond charity, it is an investment in the planet we inherit and the legacy we leave behind. African youth are at the forefront in developing cutting-edge tactics for climate adaptation. They contribute …
Book Review: The Bill Gates Problem
For many working with philanthropy, there is always a twinge of discomfort. Philanthropy itself arises out of an unequal system where a few individuals are able to accrue far more wealth than they actually need, …
Funding challenges in the movement to end statelessness
Statelessness is a global issue for between four and ten million people worldwide. Global conflicts and other issues deny stateless people citizenship in any country. That’s despite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes …
Empowering the Next Generation: Green Education is Key
‘If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.’ This ancient Chinese proverb remains relevant to humankind’s future, even as we struggle against an existential environmental …
HIV drugmaker provides a case study in philanthropic whitewashing
In October Funders Concerned About AIDS, a philanthropic body that describes itself as one to take ‘bold actions and push philanthropy to respond to HIV and AIDS’, recognised Gilead as being the number one philanthropic …
What if we apply the Inner Development Goals framework to philanthropy?
The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) are a framework to enhance transformational skills for sustainable development. While we have both vision and knowledge around how to achieve sustainability, we are struggling to reach significant progress in …
The importance of ‘language justice’ in social justice movements
‘As an Indigenous and ethnic minority woman, I dream, I laugh, I experience my true self in my own language. I need to be able to express myself in my own language in multilingual spaces,’ …
Building LGBTQI+ solidarity in the age of pinkwashing
Towards the end of last year I attended the UK LGBTQI Global Giving Summit, hosted by the Baring Foundation and Giveout. As a young, queer person, I was excited to see a conference devoted to …
