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Paula Park
Interview: teenage panellists deciding on $1 million funding
With around $1 million in resources raised to build girl‑driven organizations, the With and For Girls Collective asked panels of teenaged girls to decide which organizations to support under its global awards programme. To do so, …
Foundations need to help narrow great gaps in SDGs
Advocates are championing the agreement behind the Sustainable Development Goals. But let’s be frank about what’s missing: A committed source of funding the estimated $3.5 trillion to $5 trillion annual costs. Accountability – the agreement …
Interview with Muhammad Yunus
Pioneering anti-poverty practitioner and Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus spells out his vision for eradicating poverty. His message comes as world governments, donors and NGOs meet this month to finalise an agreement on global Sustainable …
Give: it’s the law
A socio-economic development target, incorporated in law, does a good job of ‘inculcating a habit of giving back to South African communities where profits are generated’, according to Gail Walters, head of group corporate affairs …
Speaking up for philanthropy
In a two-day discussion at the Bosch Foundation in June, people expressed disquiet about the endurance and impact of their work. As I write, for example, both the MacArthur and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations are …
Divest-Invest: Modelling the energy transition with our investments
Foundations’ fossil fuel divestments will neither stop the advancement of traditional energy production, nor ensure that groups’ portfolios are ethical. That’s the view of Haki Abazi, program director for the Western Balkans portion of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s …
