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Interview - Farhana Faruqi Stocker
Farhana Faruqi Stocker

Interview - Farhana Faruqi Stocker

1 July 2009
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'We've never left' proclaims the website of the charity Afghanaid, highlighting a running total of almost 9,700 days – well over 26 years – of continuous operation in the war-strewn country that has proved a tough challenge for so many. Leading Afghanaid's work in sustainable rural development with half a million people is its managing director, Farhana Faruqi Stocker, who has two decades' experience of the region and its problems of poverty, conflict and human rights. Click here to read ...


Foundation partnership boost to think-tanks in developing countries

1 July 2009
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The Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Canada’s International Development Research Centre announced in May a $90 million effort to bolster think-tanks in poor countries. The so-called think-tank initiative aims to provide governments and philanthropies with research and policy recommendations that are based on the needs of poor countries. Gates and Hewlett are each giving $40 million, while the IDRC is providing the other $10 million. Click here to read ...


Applying corporate planning techniques to philanthropic challenges
Jacqueline Copeland-Carson

Applying corporate planning techniques to philanthropic challenges

Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
1 June 2009
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‘When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.’
Professor John M. Richardson, Jr. of American University, Washington, DC Click here to read ...


Thoughts after talking to Sergei Zverev
Olga Alexeeva

Thoughts after talking to Sergei Zverev

Olga Alexeeva
1 June 2009
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Akwasi Aidoo

Interview - Akwasi Aidoo, Christine Edwards and Lyndall Stein

1 May 2009
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The generation of new funders known as ‘philanthrocapitalists’, including not just Bill Gates but others such as Jeff Skoll and Rohini Nilekani and Jamie Cooper-Hohn of the UK’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation are very big players on the funding scene. Click here to read ...


Katherina Rosqueta

Interview - Paul Brest, Jed Emerson, Katherina Rosqueta, Brian Trelstad and Michael Weinstein

1 April 2009
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One of the most perennially vexing questions in philanthropy is how to assess the impact of funding, especially where there’s no obvious way of putting a price on the end product. A recently published paper on Measuring and/or Estimating Social Value Creation, written by Melinda Tuan and commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, features different models adopted for this purpose by a number of US foundations. Click here to read ...


Troy Kennedy

Companies, consumers, computers and condoms

Troy Kennedy
1 March 2009
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Social networks like MySpace and Facebook are about more than just talking to friends. Recently they've organized 'flashmobs', helped bring back the Wispa bar, and played a crucial role in helping the first black president into the White House. Now I’m using them to try to rally support for the ‘Condoms For Africa’ campaign I’m running in conjunction with UK TV’s Channel 4 Battlefront project (http://battlefront.co.uk/condoms-for-africa). Click here to read ...


Geoff Scott

Interview - Geoff Scott - Combining the traditional and the modern

1 February 2009
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Much discussion of indigenous philanthropy centres on building on the traditions of indigenous peoples. As Geoff Scott, Chief Executive of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (ALC), sees it, it is the dynamism of the Aboriginal people of Australia that has allowed them to survive and to maintain their traditions. Click here to read ...


Ravinol Chambers

There are easier ways to get money – the ups and downs of the venture philanthropy experience

Ravinol Chambers
1 December 2008
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In recent years, venture philanthropy (VP) has attracted much hype. It has been touted as a means of making ‘giving’ more effective and has sought to attract a generation of the self-made wealthy, particularly those from private equity and venture capital backgrounds, as engaged donors. The term has been used loosely in connection with the pledges of vast fortunes by the likes of Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Tom Hunter for charitable purposes. Click here to read ...


Jane Wales

Interview - Jane Wales

1 November 2008
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The new ‘On the Grapevine’ column in the September issue of Alliance wondered whether Jane Wales was the most powerful woman in global philanthropy. So Alliance went straight to the source and asked her about it – and about other things, too, such as what her four jobs involve, how much they complement one another, and – inevitably – how philanthropy will respond to the current financial crisis.

Are you the most powerful woman in global philanthropy? Click here to read ...


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