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AVPN 2024: UAE commits $125 million for global health, poverty alleviation, and species conservation

Alliance magazine 25 April 2024

A raft of funding commitments from government and philanthropic bodies has accompanied the start of a major gathering of philanthropy and impact investors in Abu Dhabi. The announcements at AVPN Global – a network that …

USAID scrutinised by staff and developmental health workers over Gaza

Shafi Musaddique 24 April 2024

The US Agency for International Development is under pressure from some of its staff who say the governmental organisation, who help fund and collaborate private philanthropies, has been unable to grasp the severity of the …

Belfast celebrates a peace process by posing questions to Philanthropy

Avila Kilmurray 23 April 2024

Reflecting on discussions held in Belfast, framed by the question ‘Countering Violent Conflict and Polarisation: How Can Donors Help?’ Melanie Greenberg (Humanity United) praised the event – ‘I think it was for creative imagination, moral …

The emerging story of philanthropy and peace

Barry Knight 23 April 2024

Recent growth in violent conflict across the world means that philanthropy has little choice but to address it. While the world’s media are focused on Ukraine and the Middle East, other regions including Sudan, Ethiopia, …

‘Shift the Power’: Narrow internal gaze or shaping an equal future?

Amitabh Behar 16 April 2024

Seven hundred extraordinary people from philanthropies, developmental agencies, NGOs, and community groups, gathered in Bogota, Colombia last December to deliberate on the unequal power distribution in the global developmental sector,[1] and to find paths to …

Drought-stricken Zimbabweans look to philanthropy for food aid

Andrew Mambondiyani 4 April 2024

Large swathes of croplands lie abandoned in Zimbabwe’s Mutare district as El Niño induced drought ravages the country. Last year, the Meteorological Services Department confirmed that the El Niño episode was expected to be most …

Best practice for managing a non-profit across time zones

M. Scott Frank 22 March 2024

Rural Uganda. Atlanta, Georgia. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gallup, New Mexico. Italy. Norway. Denver, Colorado. These are the places in which The InteRoots Initiative – a small, agile nonprofit made up of an executive director and a …

Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024: Thrive through Equity

Alliance magazine 20 March 2024

​Celebrating its 15th edition, Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024 invited a convergence of diverse stakeholders and voices within the development ecosystem anchored around the theme of ‘Thrive through Equity’, to help shape a collective perspective for …

Dasra 2024: Building the talent backbone for the future leaders of non-profits

Annmarie McQueen 20 March 2024

Non-profits are moving from the model of talent management towards talent development, which focuses on developing individuals in ways that benefit the organisation and the employee. This Dasra session looked at how non-profits can make …

Engage in trust based philanthropy for long term impact, says IRC

Shafi Musaddique 20 March 2024

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has launched a report publishing key findings from the largest intervention into early childhood in the world.   The release of the publication marks thirteen years since the start of …