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Opinion

Trauma-Informed Philanthropy for Violence Prevention 

18 March 2024
Averi Jones

With today’s knowledge of the importance of providing trauma-informed care to our program participants, why are we not enforcing these same standards in our fundraising practices? When we are working with individuals who have survived violence, we should be choosing fundraising events that promote healthy models for healing, instead of those that promote behaviors linked to violence. We are failing our program participants when we teach them that gambling and alcoholism are unhealthy, but casino …

Opinion

More funding is needed for the just transition to sustainable buildings

15 March 2024
Liz McKeon and Amol Mehra

Buildings are the world’s biggest asset class and contribute nearly 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity. Yet less than 4 percent of climate philanthropic money goes to funding the transition to sustainable buildings. With its importance – to markets, people, and climate – why does the built environment get so little attention from climate philanthropy? Last week the first ever Buildings and Climate Global Forum was hosted in Paris by …

News

Alliance submission guidelines now in multiple languages 

14 March 2024
Alliance magazine

Alliance magazine is updating its submission guidelines to include non-English languages. The move comes after Alliance introduced updated submission guidelines following recommendations in its 2023 EDI audit. From today, our submission guidelines are available in French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Arabic – all part of our commitment to giving non-English speaking people and communities greater access to our platforms as recommended in our recent equality, diversity and inclusion audit. Executive Editor of Alliance, Charles …

News

Ramadan 2024: Islamic philanthropy surges to record high as UN delivers warning

12 March 2024
Shafi Musaddique

Islamic philanthropy raised a record $46 million for 2 million displaced people in 2023, according to a report released the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to mark the beginning of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.  Contributions for zakat and sadaqah, paid via the UN’s Refugee Zakat Fund, grew by almost 20 per cent from 2022.  Muslim giving is defined as those that follow the fundamental pillars of the Islamic faith: zakat, the compulsory …

Analysis

How leading funders build strong, resilient nonprofits in India

12 March 2024
Pritha Venkatachalam, Shashank Rastogi and Aditi Sharma

Chronic underfunding of nonprofits’ ‘true costs’– programme expenses, core administrative expenditures, organisational development investments, plus reserve funding – blunts the …

Opinion

Funders need to see beyond carbon

11 March 2024
Vishal Kumar and Marisha Thakur

There were no alarm bells. It was an ordinary Friday for most people, but a special one for us at …

Interview

International Women’s Day: ‘If you care about social impact, you should not be ignoring African women’

8 March 2024
Claudia Cahalane

At the age of 29, Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes founded one of the few women-owned investment companies in Africa. With women in …

Opinion

What philanthropy can learn from Afrofuturism to end violence

8 March 2024
Alexis Flanagan

What other ways of knowing can philanthropy embrace to imagine our future? As we bear witness to the inhumanity of …

Opinion

Our struggle is one struggle, until the day that we are all free

8 March 2024
Josephine Kamara

This International Women’s Day the stakes feel higher than they have felt in our living memory. The shallow activism of …

Opinion

Interview: Championing trans philanthropy with Antonia Belcher and Alexus D’Marco

8 March 2024
Antonia Belcher and Alexus D'Marco

Around the world, trans organisations are protecting their communities from human rights violations, discrimination and violence. While the journey ahead …

Opinion

Defending the defenders: Funding for climate and gender justice 

8 March 2024
Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA)

‘Above all, funders must become and view themselves as partners – with us, the Women Environmental Human Right Defenders (WEHRDs). …

Opinion

Building a base of Black feminist power in philanthropy

8 March 2024
Vanessa Thomas

This February, The Black Feminist Fund convened 100 members of the Black Feminists in Philanthropy Network (BFiP). This was part …

Opinion

Dasra 2024: Progress and action on menstrual health in India

8 March 2024
Annmarie McQueen

Every month, 25% of girls and people who menstruate in India miss school because of their period. Hopefully one day, …