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Philanthropy in need of improving data and collaboration beyond sector, the Future of Philanthropy report warns
A new comprehensive report released suggests a need for more, and more useful, data in philanthropy and the need for philanthropists to collaborate not just with each other, but also across sectors. The Future of …
Winning on Climate Change Is Entirely Possible With a Little More Help from Philanthropy
Entertaining the thought of winning on climate change requires us to keep two apparently opposed ideas in mind: first, that we are living in a time of escalating peril and crisis, and second, that major …
The SDG Fund: Empowering Local Communities to Achieve the SDGs
Reaching the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals will require regional and local development actors to take a leading role in implementation. Those local actors are among the most capable – and most motivated – to help …
How to build women leadership in civil society
This year, we topped the FAIR SHARE Index for Women Leadership with 77 percent of leadership positions held by women. This is a proportionate representation of CIVICUS workforce which is also 77 percent women. As …
Understanding SDG-speak: Half-empty or half-full?
The SDGs continue to attract negative and positive commentary in almost equal measure The SDGs suffer from a problem of scale – or rather of how to mesh two scales, the grand and the miniature. …
The SDG toolkit
A series of innovative tools are at hand to assist philanthropic organisations in their quest to help build a sustainable future Entering the SDG framework is not always easy, and can leave foundations and other …
Chew the SDGs with caution
Without systems change, localisation cannot salvage the SDG A new report issued this year by the UN says: ‘At this midpoint on our way to 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals are in trouble.’ The report …
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 …
From you – September 2023
Shock of the new To mark the publication of our special feature in the June 2023 issue, Alliance hosted an event on how new giving vehicles and tools are changing philanthropy ‘In the US, the …
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 …
