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Now free to read: Grantmaking for social change?
First published 18 April 2014, by Alliance magazine. I’m going to lay my cards on the table: I believe that grantmaking can help achieve social change. But I also agree with so many of the …
This is COMMON SENSE philanthropy: a response to ‘Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World’
In a recent article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled ‘Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World’, John Kania, Mark Kramer and Patty Russell suggest moving away from a ‘rigid and predictive model of strategy’ …
Humble grant or strategic philanthropy? Let’s champion ambitious grantmaking
Last week’s panel discussion at the Alliance Breakfast initially positioned ‘strategic philanthropy’ as something different to ‘humble grantmaking’. I suppose the various prefixes like traditional, conventional, reactive, responsive … grantmaking etc didn’t help. But I …
Alliance Breakfast Club 19 March: Grantmaking for Social Change
In a world eagerly adopting venture philanthropy, strategic philanthropy and more recently catalytic philanthropy, is there still room for the ‘humble’ grant and if so what role can it play? This was the question before …
Aligning investing and grantmaking: thoughts from the social change/human rights field
A group of grantmakers in the arena of social change and human rights got together last week in Barcelona to share best practices (and failures) around funding. As part of this conversation, we held a …
Alliance magazine: An interview with Mitch Winehouse
‘As we progressed, we brought in our own people, who had experience in setting up foundations and charities, but frankly it was the blind leading the blind to begin with’ says Amy Winehouse’s father of …
AGN Assembly Day One (part 2): whose role to bring about change?
Day one of the Second Biennial African Grantmakers Network Assembly, held 29 October to 2 November in Johannesburg, South Africa: the overriding mood of the After Tea Armchair Session on Growing African Philanthropy, facilitated by …
AGN Assembly Day One: Graça Machel sets out agenda
The opening plenary session set a challenging tone for the Second Biennial African Grantmakers Network Assembly, held 29 October to 2 November in Johannesburg, South Africa. An innovation in the opening session was a ‘Why …
The most transparent grantmaker
Twitter made my day when I received this: Check out David’s blog post for what he’s up to – here’s a short list of what he’s aiming to post. ‘I commit to publishing a …
New guide for corporate philanthropy launched at Council on Foundations conference
The Council on Foundations has released a new guide for corporate philanthropy during its annual conference, held in Los Angeles, 28 April-1 May. Increasing Impact, Enhancing Value: A practitioner’s guide to leading corporate philanthropy is …
