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Ignore digital equity at your own peril: your funding is ineffective without it
Almost half of humanity lives in a state of digital inequity – lacking the internet connectivity they need to participate in today’s digitized world. They are overwhelmingly our most vulnerable, most marginalized communities – the …
Are barriers to digital technology preventing civil society organisations from achieving their potential?
‘Civil society organizations collectively serve millions of the most vulnerable people on earth. We must ensure they have the tools they need to improve people’s lives and achieve their missions’, Chris Worman, Head of Strategy, …
Effective Altruism: Down but not out
Looking back from the future, rather than forward to it as effective altruists tend to do, the year 2022 may come to be seen as both the apotheosis and nadir of the effective altruism (EA) …
11 key trends for philanthropy in 2023
The Johnson Center for Philanthropy has released its annual trends in philanthropy report and identifies networks and connections as key trends for 2023. ‘The philanthropic sector is an ecosystem: a web of interdependent actors, infinitely …
World Economic Forum initiative hopes to generate $3tn a year for climate action
The World Economic Forum has launched an initiative to generate $3 trillion a year by leveraging philanthropic and public capital to tackle climate change and nature loss. Giving to Amplify Earth Action, or GAEA, is …
Philanthropic Futurist predicts the next wave of philanthropy
We are living in a time of transformative change in the philanthropic field. In 2016, I was starting to feel the acceleration of this change and created a future of philanthropy model that envisioned a …
On the frontlines of reforestation: a conversation on funding Indigenous action
In the fight against the climate crisis, philanthropy must fund more projects led by frontline communities and Indigenous land stewards. Currently, Native American communities receive just 0.4 per cent of philanthropic funds from large U.S. …
Who decides what is effective in Effective Altruism?
In the weeks following the FTX collapse, and the subsequent breakdown of Sam Bankman-Fried’s reputation, some of the scrutiny has turned to Effective Altruism (EA) – the philanthropic movement that Bankman-Fried championed for years (evidently …