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Sustainable Development Goals
What role can institutional investors play in contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
ShareAction is a UK-based charity working across the investment system to promote Responsible Investment, and helps investors better serve savers, society and the environment. The Sustainable Development Goals aim to enhance economic growth, preserve the …
2016 US Council on Foundations: How US funders can lead the SDGs at home
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) made a helpful appearance during the first day of the Council on Foundations’ 2016 conference in Washington, DC today. Helpful and somewhat unusual for this annual gathering of mostly U.S. …
Time for European foundations to get on board with the SDGs
Vikki Spruill’s article on the relevance of the Sustainable Development Goals to US foundations working domestically gives food for thought for European foundation. In September 2015, the world’s governments adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable …
Alliance Breakfast Club – The role of philanthropy in creating sustainable cities
The latest Alliance Breakfast Club, held in association with the Big Lottery Fund addressed ‘the role of philanthropy in creating sustainable cities’. This question was inspired by Alliance magazine’s December 2015 special feature, Why philanthropy …
Make watered‑down SDGs work
There is cause for celebrating commitments made for women and girls by UN heads of state in adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as a sense of relief as it became evident …
Why the SDGs matter
One of the most important shifts in international cooperation of the last 50 years will take place in January, as the 15-year-old Millennium Development Goals campaign comes to an end and a new set of …
Foundations can set the agenda for SDG partnerships
The growing interdependence between countries and the global nature of many of the problems will require the efforts of all parts of the development community to implement the Sustainable Development Goals. They will all need …
Foundations keen to collaborate on SDGs
We are at a pivotal moment in the history of the relationship between philanthropy and official development assistance. The key question is: will foundations take part in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? To find out, …
Advancing impacts, not numbers
Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are becoming buzzwords. I have been asked whether philanthropy institutions should participate in SDGs. I believe the philanthropy community should engage in any global initiative relevant to its work that contributes …
SDGs can be a tool in the accountability toolbox
Many of my civil society colleagues worry about a long list of potential problems with the Sustainable Development Goals – that there are too many goals and targets and governments will only work on the …
