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Philanthropy’s role in financial relief for nonprofits
Imagine being charged with critical life-changing responsibilities while being starved by the same public actors to whom you are accountable. This is the crazy-making situation nonprofits are finding themselves in, whether they are housing the …
Most grantmakers don’t seem to know if they are effective
Is your foundation any good? I don’t mean: is it big, or does it give away a lot, or does it run an efficient process, or do the grantees achieve much. Rather, I mean: are …
Reflections on power dynamics and collaborations in funds working with systemic change
With money comes power. It’s an age-old saying, and no matter what type of foundation you are, power dynamics between relationships are an ever-present element. This is an issue the philanthropic sector as a whole …
Donors are ignoring Black women at the forefront of our most important social movements
Angela Davis once said, ‘When Black women move, the whole structure of society moves with them.’ Throughout history, Black women have been at the center of struggles for change. In recent years, they have led …
Trust-based philanthropy rewards ideas
Growing up in a rural village in northwestern Tanzania, Josephina Joachim was a young woman who experienced hardship and injustice. Hoping to shift the narrative for girls who came after her, she and her colleagues …
Language justice: an invitation to get out of our comfort zones and build together
‘Language justice’ is a concept that holds that people have a right to express themselves in the language they choose and in which they feel most powerfully and authentically themselves. The concept also recognizes that …
Private means for public ends?
We’ve given contributors to this special feature of Alliance a particularly difficult task. We’ve asked them to bring together the notion of the common good with the principle and practice of philanthropy and to discern …
Philanthropy and the common good – download the new issue for free
The atomisation of society, an economy based on competition and growing distrust of politics and of institutions in general: these are some of the factors that have led to a diminished commitment to the common …
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire
Reviewed by Deborah Doane, partner at Rights CoLab Tim Schwab’s forensic expose, The Bill Gates Problem, Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire makes for very uncomfortable (and gripping) reading. Schwab reveals Gates’ influence …