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Interview - Jed Emerson
Jed Emerson

Interview - Jed Emerson

01 July 2010
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Written following the closing of Uhuru Capital Management around six months ago, Jed Emerson’s recent paper Beyond Good Versus Evil has attracted unexpected criticism from those supportive of his previous work. Why is this, Caroline Hartnell asked him. How would he like to see capital markets develop following the financial crisis, and what role does he hope to play in this? For Jed Emerson, mainstreaming sustainable investment practices rather than developing more boutique sustainable funds has to be a key part of the way forward. Click here to read ...


Civil society, aid and security post-9/11: challenges and dilemmas
Jude Howell

Civil society, aid and security post-9/11: challenges and dilemmas

Jude Howell
1 June 2010
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Following President Bush’s declaration of a ‘war on terror’ in 2001, governments around the world introduced a range of counter-terrorist legislation, policies and practices. These included first-order measures aimed specifically at suspected terrorists, such as counter-terrorist and money laundering legislation, enhanced surveillance, renditions and passenger profiling, and second-order measures that are built into other policies such as official aid assistance, refugee and asylum practices, education and community engagement initiatives. Click here to read ...


Going ‘glocal’ with governance
Marilyn Wyatt

Going ‘glocal’ with governance

Marilyn Wyatt
1 June 2010
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When Eurasia Foundation transformed its office in Kyiv, Ukraine, into the independent East Europe Foundation (EEF) in 2007, one of its first priorities was ambitious, given the local environment for governance: to establish a locally focused, internationally constituted, fully functioning board of trustees. Click here to read ...


Investing in transformational leadership
Katherine Tyler Scott

Investing in transformational leadership

Katherine Tyler Scott
1 June 2010
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‘It’s hard to see the future with tears in your eyes.’ This Native American proverb poignantly characterized many of the residents of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin after the town’s largest employer was purchased by an international company and 500 jobs were lost, resulting in a 40 per cent reduction in employment. However, with support from the local community foundation and an innovative approach to training community leaders, anger and despondency has begun to turn into something more positive. Click here to read ...


Philanthropy in India
Rohini Nilekani

Philanthropy in India

Rohini Nilekani
1 June 2010
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This speech was given by Rohini Nilekani at the launch of the Indian Philanthropy Forum (IPF) in Mumbai, 18-19 March 2010. The aim of the IPF is to build a dynamic community of philanthropists who are committed to developing high-impact solutions to poverty in India.

Namaste, Click here to read ...


Interview - Antony Bugg-Levine
Antony Bugg-Levine

Interview - Antony Bugg-Levine

1 May 2010
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The Rockefeller Foundation launched its Impact Investing initiative in 2007 to help scale the field of impact investing.  What exactly is the Rockefeller Foundation trying to do, how will it know it has succeeded, and where does the Global Impact Investing Network fit in, Caroline Hartnell asked Managing Director Antony Bugg-Levine. Success will ultimately be defined by the extent to which social and environmental challenges have been solved, says Bugg-Levine. The initiative will not fall back on the proxy variable of whether money has flowed or not. Click here to read ...


Interview - Geraldine Kunstadter
Geraldine Kunstadter

Interview - Geraldine Kunstadter

1 April 2010
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The Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation was set up in 1952. It made its first direct overseas grant in 1987. It now makes 16 grants a year, eight in the US and eight abroad. Geraldine Kunstadter, now 82, runs the foundation and visits all their projects each year. But she’s unhappy with the state of philanthropy these days – with the arrogance of foundations that regard themselves as the ‘experts’ on everything, with the way they make life difficult for NGOs rather than helping them do what they do, with the over-emphasis on measurement. Click here to read ...


Better together? A user’s guide to funding advocacy coalitions
David Devlin-Foltz

Better together? A user’s guide to funding advocacy coalitions

David Devlin-Foltz
1 March 2010
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Caroline Hartnell, editor of Alliance, asked me to suggest some guidelines for funding advocacy coalitions, drawing on our work as planning and evaluation advisers to foundations and their advocacy grantees – who often work through coalitions of groups that join forces to promote policy changes. How can funders help such advocacy coalitions reach their potential? How can they help their advocacy grantees be ‘better together’? And how can they avoid doing harm? Click here to read ...


Civil society vs markets – a false dichotomy?

Tris Lumley and David Bonbright
25 February 2010
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Interview - Martin Brookes
Martin Brookes

Interview - Martin Brookes

1 February 2010
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Various influential pieces of research have suggested that donors would give more if only they knew where and how to give it, and that most of the sources to whom individuals and organizations turn for advice on money matters are ill equipped to provide that information. So while philanthropy advice is undoubtedly a growing industry, it needs to grow more, reckons Martin Brookes, chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). Caroline Hartnell talked to him about NPC’s work, about how to build up the market and about what developments are in the pipeline. Click here to read ...


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