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Growth for Ukraine’s Zagoriy Foundation despite Russian invasion

Simon Hungin 18 March 2023

The Zagoriy Foundation annual report, published 1 March 2023, details the organisation’s work over the past year, including the support of 48 different organisations to the amount of $37.5 million, as well as receiving validation …

Making nonprofits in India scale ready

Prakhar Singh 12 March 2023

The Indian state has made significant progress towards key development outcomes, and we have come a long way since independence on areas like education, health, and technology. However, when it comes to equitably ensuring the …

Casa Fund launches report on women-led groups in Latin America

1 Alliance magazine 11 March 2023

Brazil’s Casa Socio-Environment Fund has launched a new publication on the work of women-led groups in South America. The second publication of the series ‘Powerful Women: Action of Groups in the Socio-Environmental Agenda’ is now …

Global Updates

Alliance magazine 7 March 2023 For Subscribers

This is our round-up of philanthropy news around the world featured in the March 2023 issue of Alliance: Arab Region Research highlights shortfall in HNWI succession plans Strategic giving prospers in Saudi Arabia Alliance regional …

Candid campaign to measure equitable funding practices

Simon Hungin 23 February 2023

Demographics via Candid, a campaign launched publicly online earlier this month, aims to relieve the demographics data-request burden, reducing inefficiencies and allowing nonprofits additional time to devote to their missions. As a result of both …

Indiana University research explores digital philanthropy trends

Alliance magazine 20 February 2023

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has released a report, ‘Digital for Good’, examining technology-enabled giving and its implications for the future of philanthropy. The report explored the use of new and evolving …

Important handbook for organisations working on gender, democracy in Latin America published in English

Alliance magazine 19 February 2023

Philanthropy with a gender perspective, a handbook that aims to enable donor organisations and individuals to reflect in depth on their policies, programmes, and forms of support, from ELLAS—Mujeres y Filantropía (Women and Philanthropy) has …

Why widespread philanthropic coordination is so elusive: Lessons from the sector

1 Melissa Stevens and Hilary McConnaughey 15 February 2023

Time and again, there are clarion calls within the philanthropic sector for more coordination among funders – but so far, no remedy has endured. When the Covid-19 pandemic upended our lives in early 2020, the …

11 key trends for philanthropy in 2023

Alliance magazine 28 January 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 …

Charity sector is crucial to UK’s recovery and growth, finds research

Alliance magazine 26 January 2023

A commission exploring the potential of civil society in the UK has called for bold action on the sector by the government, businesses, and funders to help fuel much-needed national recovery and growth. The Law …