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Empowered favelas: Empowering community leaders to transform lives
At the heart of the Brazilian favelas, where determination and resilience are the local currency, hard-working social projects and community leaders commit their lives to building a better future for the children, young people, women, …
June 2024: Around the world from our regional reps
Every month Alliance regional representatives provide a report on the latest happenings in philanthropy from their region. Below is roundup for June 2024 Stanford Social Innovation Review(SSIR) Japan Relaunched By Fan Li, East Asia Regional Representative …
Philanthropy and the problem of the Outer Commons
As I look around at the lack of political consensus on what to do about poverty, public health or climate, and as I listen to the arguments and debates in the media, I do wonder …
The Practice of Common Climate Good
The crisis of climate change transcends economies and ecosystems. Accelerated by the burning of fossil fuel, climate change is a ‘global bad’, posing dire consequences for all humankind in the present as well as in …
Football’s past, present and future are dependent on philanthropy
Of the five billion people watching the European Championships this summer, the vast majority may not realise that they are, in fact, watching philanthropists on the pitch. Football and philanthropy have been inextricably linked since …
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 …
Welcome to the June 2024 issue of Alliance
Like motherhood and apple pie, who would not be in favour of pursuing the common good? But what exactly is the common good? And do those of us working in philanthropy have a special responsibility …
Monte de Piedad’s Alejandra Angarita Chahín on Mexico’s social purpose pawnbroker
The idea of a social purpose pawnbroker might seem odd, but it has a long history in Mexico’s Nacional Monte de Piedad. Social Investment director Alejandra Angarita Chahín explains to Andrew Milner how it works. …
Pursuing the common good: The bureau of world weather control
The pursuit of the ‘common good’ may seem a straightforward human aspiration. However, it doesn’t take much digging down to realise it is anything but… Imagine a future (presumably not too distant) when a Bureau …
Harmony and social cohesion to the fore
Despite radical change in ways of giving, traditional community values remain central for Asian donors The notion of the common good in Asia has long been grounded in shared cultural values of community harmony and …
