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What does Alliance cover?

Alliance is the world’s leading magazine on philanthropy and social investment. Published by Alliance Publishing Trust, Alliance provides news and analysis of what’s happening in the philanthropy and social investment sectors across the world, and a forum for exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners. Alliance is for all those who want to keep up to date with developments and new thinking in this field.

As well as news and conference reports, articles, book reviews and opinion columns, each issue has a special in-depth feature on some key aspect of philanthropy and social investment, with contributors from around the world and expert guest editors.

Alliance aims always to include diverse northern and southern perspectives, connecting people and ideas across the world.

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Alliance Online

Alliance Online is Alliance’s online resource, available free to all Alliance readers and others. Alliance Online features monthly interviews with prominent figures in the field of philanthropy plus regular articles and reports from conferences around the world.

Alliance eBulletin

Alliance eBulletin is an email newsletter for subscribers only which provides news and analysis of current developments in all months when the magazine is not published.

Alliance back issues archive

The Alliance back issues archive gives Alliance subscribers access to the back issues of Alliance, dating from 1998.

Alliance Conference Calendar

The online Conference Calendar is a fully searchable guide to major events in philanthropy around the world.

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Alliance Publishing Trust

From 1 January 2007, Alliance is published by Alliance Publishing Trust (APT) in association with the Network of European Foundations and the European Foundation Centre. Alliance was previously published by Allavida.

APT’s board members are:

  • Rien van Gendt Van Leer Group Foundation and Network of European Foundations
  • Gerry Salole European Foundation Centre, Belgium
  • David Carrington Independent consultant and Chair of Allavida
  • Marissa Camacho-Reyes WINGS, Philippines
  • Shannon Lawder Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, USA
  • Marion Wadibia Charities Aid Foundation, UK

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Editorial advisory board

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
Executive Director, African Women's Development Fund, Ghana

Sue Adkins
International Director, Business in the Community, UK

Akwasi Aidoo
Executive Director, TrustAfrica, Senegal

Olga Alexeeva
CAF Global Trustees, UK

David Bonbright
Chief Executive, Keystone, UK

Elena Bonfiglioli
Director Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft, Brussels

Nilda Bullain
Executive Director, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Hungary

Eleanor Fink
Foundations Coordinator, The World Bank, USA

Alan Fowler
Honorary Professor, Centre for Civil Society, University of Natal
Development Researcher and Adviser, South Africa

Christopher Harris
Senior Program Officer, Governance and Civil Society, Ford Foundation, USA

Cornelia Higginson
USA

Andrew Kingman
Allavida, UK

Marcos Kisil
President, Institute for Development and Social Investment, Brazil

Barry Knight
Secretary, CENTRIS, UK

Venkat Krishnan
Executive Director, GiveIndia, India

Atallah Kuttab
Director General, Welfare Association, Switzerland/Palestine

Peter Laugharn
Executive Director, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Netherlands

Janet Mawiyoo
Executive Director, Kenya Community Development Foundation, Kenya

Kumi Naidoo
Secretary General, CIVICUS, South Africa

Sheela Patel
Director, Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, India

Marta Rey
Director, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain

Fernando Rossetti
Secretary General, GIFE, Brazil

Georgie Shields
Vice President, Philanthropy, American Express Company, USA

Karla Simon
Professor of Law, Catholic University of America
Editor in Chief, International Journal of Civil Society Law, USA

Volker Then
Managing Director, Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg, Germany

Andrés Thompson
Program Director, W K Kellogg Foundation, Uruguay

Rory Tolentino
Executive Director, Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Philippines

Jorge Villalobos
Executive President, Mexican Center for Philanthropy

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Funders of Alliance

Alliance receives financial support from:

*Alliance is a project of NEF (Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation)

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