From grants to loans: how social credit scoring models can prevent us from playing God
Lisa De Bode

From grants to loans: how social credit scoring models can prevent us from playing God

Lisa De Bode
1 September 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

In 1989, Paul Ylvisaker’s essay Small Can Be Effective made a strong plea for a more professional type of philanthropy that goes beyond ad hoc grantmaking and considers classic financial techniques like lending, insuring and investing. Today we are all familiar with the idea of recycling money through the use of social investment, which allows the same amount of precious philanthropic money to be used for numerous people in need. The same pound can consecutively be invested in education, affordable housing and protecting wildlife habitats. Click here to read ...


Rethinking scale – a response
Shilpa Jain

Rethinking scale – a response

Shilpa Jain
1 September 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

For most, the concept of going to scale invokes a sense of the large, the systemic, the external. It brings to mind replication, expansion and spread − like tentacles, ever-reaching, ever-growing. But taking a single project, or a concept, and trying to make it ‘work’ for everyone leads to forced, false constructs and a single vision of ‘success’ or ‘the good life’. It negates the beauty of the diversity of human existence. Click here to read ...


Beyond business as usual: ten principles to promote Nigerian social capitalism
Jacqueline Copeland-Carson

Beyond business as usual: ten principles to promote Nigerian social capitalism

Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
1 September 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

‘Wealth is not what a man has; it’s what he gives away.’
Ancient Nigerian proverb about philanthropy Click here to read ...


Measuring the benefits of collaboration
Richard Kennedy

Measuring the benefits of collaboration

Richard Kennedy
1 September 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

How to measure the impact that charities and social enterprises have on their communities is a hotly debated topic. CAN Mezzanine, a UK-based social enterprise that provides office space for third sector organizations, has been using SROI (social return on investment) tools to measure the social value created for the charities and social enterprises that rent its central London office buildings, particularly the benefits of collaboration. Click here to read ...


Interview - Nat Sloane
Nat Sloane

Interview - Nat Sloane

1 August 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

Venture philanthropy funds typically work intensively with a handful of organizations. While the approach has yielded good results for the organizations in question, the wider impact is necessarily limited. Impetus Trust, one of the first UK venture philanthropy funders, is now launching a new initiative on reducing reoffending, which will widen that very specific focus and seek change on a much larger scale. Impetus co-founder and vice-chair Nat Sloane talked to Caroline Hartnell about it. Click here to read ...


Interview - Jed Emerson
Jed Emerson

Interview - Jed Emerson

01 July 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

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
www.alliancemagazine.org

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
www.alliancemagazine.org

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
www.alliancemagazine.org

‘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
www.alliancemagazine.org

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 ...


123456789…next ›last »