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 ...


New resources for effective giving

17 February 2010
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Three new guides complete Active Philanthropy’s set of brochures addressing donor involvement with civil society organisations. The guides entitled ‘What do I want to achieve with my support?’, ‘How do I engage with the selected project?’ and ‘How do I assess the effects of my contribution?’, written by Burkhard Gnärig, help donors to identify and effectively support CSOs and concrete projects that best suit their aims.

The guides add to those published in 2008 ‘How do I find the right CSO to support?’ and ‘How do I assess the work of CSOs?’ Click here to read ...

Tactical Philanthropy Advisors to help curate a Tactical Philanthropy Track at this year’s Social Capital Markets conference

17 February 2010
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Tactical Philanthropy Advisors is working with the team that produces the Social Capital Markets conference to curate a Tactical Philanthropy Track at this year’s conference (October 4-6 in San Francisco). Click here to read ...

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 ...


Interview - Pieter Stemerding
Pieter Stemerding

Interview - Pieter Stemerding

1 January 2010
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Established in 2005 by the Van Vliet family, following the sale of their asset management company, the Adessium Foundation can be hailed as a newcomer to that all too select group: philanthropy infrastructure funders. Having found it difficult to find good advice when they were starting out, the family decided to look into setting up a resource for the philanthropy sector as a whole. The result is the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy (ECSP), launched on 23 September. Click here to read ...


Interview - Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo

Interview - Kumi Naidoo

18 January 2010
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Few people would disagree that the outcome of the recent Copenhagen conference was very disappointing. But are there positive things that we can build on, Caroline Hartnell asked Kumi Naidoo, the new executive director of Greenpeace International. What can individuals, civil society and private foundations do to ensure we do reach the global deal we need? Advocacy for policy change at global level is the priority now, says Naidoo. Foundations should step up their funding, and should be willing to support civil disobedience along with other approaches. Click here to read ...


The key is coal
Paul Growald

The key is coal

Paul Growald, Eileen R Growald and Joanna Messing
09 November 2009
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When we feel hot indoors, the first thing most of us do is open a window or turn down the thermostat. We do not look for new technologies to regulate indoor climate, or seek to change our countries’ policies. Click here to read ...


Arab Foundations Forum: the advantage of arriving late
Atallah Kuttab

Arab Foundations Forum: the advantage of arriving late

Atallah Kuttab
1 December 2009
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The growth of CSO self-regulation
Shana Warren

The growth of CSO self-regulation

Shana Warren, Robert Lloyd and Jeannet Lingán
1 December 2009
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In 2005, the One World Trust published an article in Alliance on the effectiveness of self-regulation as a means of ensuring NGO accountability. Four years later, we can testify that the landscape of self-regulation is more populated than previously thought. The debate has permeated the sector, to differing degrees, worldwide. This article is based on extensive research conducted by the One World Trust, which has produced a database of self-regulatory initiatives worldwide. Click here to read ...


Doing a lot with very little
Juraj Mesik

Doing a lot with very little

Juraj Mesik
09 November 2009
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‘Nonsense!’ was my first and resounding response to this hypothetical question. Given the scale of the climate change challenge, $10 million is nothing. What could one do with such a ridiculous amount?

But a seed of interest was planted in my mind and step by step, walking on the streets and parks behind a stroller with my two and a half-year-old son, thoughts emerged in my mind and moved, one by one, to an imaginary waste bin. Click here to read ...


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