In philanthropy’s defining decade, can the sector truly afford to see gains undone by mistakes we’ve already named?  This year, Alliance magazine celebrates 30 years of covering global ...
Europe does not lack social innovation. It lacks institutions strong enough to take good ideas beyond the pilot stage.  For years, the European Union has talked about social innovation, social ...
The arrest of a major US philanthropist who gave over $1 million to Palestinians in Gaza has sparked alarm bells over a possible chilling clampdown by the Trump administration.  James ‘Fergie’ ...
Europe does not lack social innovation. It lacks institutions strong enough to take good ideas beyond the pilot stage.  For years, the European Union has talked about social innovation, social ...
There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of much organised philanthropy. Foundations exist to serve the public good. They fund work on health, education, climate, the arts, human dignity and many ...
Leaders and staff working for the Gates Foundation met serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein 30 times, according to findings from an external review commissioned by the foundation.  Meetings between ...
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down at the end of the year after its corporate parent cut off funding and evicted its workers.  Food giant Unilever, owned of confectionary brand Magnum ...
N.B. In this article, we adopt a narrow definition of philanthropy, referring to institutional philanthropy (foundations) with a predominant grantmaking nature.  Nowadays, scarcely a word on the ...
Almost one in ten people living in the EU is a non-national, or in other words, a migrant. Migration is just the movement of humanity, the co-directors of the European Philanthropic Initiative for ...
The Africa Climate x Nature Salon on resourcing the frontlines of the climate movement. I will always remember visiting an Indigenous community in the Congo Basin rainforest that kept up a poster of ...
The Africa Climate x Nature Salon on resourcing the frontlines of the climate movement. I will always remember visiting an Indigenous community in the Congo Basin rainforest that kept up a poster of ...
A persistent attitude pervades society: the older generation knows best. But did they know best during the emergence of the climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, or the rise of AI? Perhaps it’s time ...