Interview - Dan Corry
Dan Corry

Interview - Dan Corry

01 February 2012
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Dan Corry took on the role of chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) in October 2011, following a varied career in public policy and economics. His previous roles have included head of the Number 10 policy unit, senior adviser to the prime minister on the economy and head of the New Local Government Network. Click here to read ...


Interview - Dame Stephanie Shirley and Roberta d’Eustachio
Dame Stephanie Shirley

Interview - Dame Stephanie Shirley and Roberta d’Eustachio

1 January 2012
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In May 2009 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown invited Dame Stephanie Shirley to become the UK Ambassador for Philanthropy, a position that she held for a year but which was not renewed by the Coalition government that came to power in May 2010. In March 2010 the website AmbassadorsForPhilanthropy.com was launched. Over the last few months, people all over the world have been receiving an email inviting them to become ambassadors for philanthropy. Many have no idea what it is all about. Click here to read ...


From ‘walking dollar sign’ to inquiry and reflexivity
Bev Gatenby

From ‘walking dollar sign’ to inquiry and reflexivity

Bev Gatenby
16 November 2011
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When I first took up my current role of chief executive of Trust Waikato, a foundation in New Zealand formed out of the community banking movement, a couple of things happened that encouraged and challenged me to think about how I would see myself as a funder and how I might occupy that position in a way that felt both safe for me and safe for the communities we serve through Trust Waikato. (I note that most people call both me and Trust Waikato a ‘funder’, so that is the term I am using here.) Click here to read ...


Interview - René Olivieri and Sarah Ridley
René Olivieri

Interview - René Olivieri and Sarah Ridley

1 November 2011
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The Tubney Charitable Trust was set up in 1997 by Miles Blackwell, retired chairman of Blackwell booksellers, and his wife Briony, both of whom died unexpectedly just four years later. It was the wish of the founders that the trust should have a limited life, but they put no timescale on this. Caroline Hartnell spoke to René Olivieri, chair of the trustees, and executive director Sarah Ridley about the process of spending down. Click here to read ...


Interview - Diane Feeney
Diane Feeney

Interview - Diane Feeney

1 October 2011
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The French-American Charitable Trust (FACT) was set up in 1990 when Chuck Feeney gave a $40 million endowment to encourage his then wife and five children into the philanthropic arena. Several years ago, the trust’s board made the decision to spend down in the US by 2011 (although the French programme will carry on for one more year). As the curtains are drawn on the trust’s work, Caroline Hartnell spoke to the current director, Diane Feeney, about her experiences of running the trust and the decision to spend down. Click here to read ...


‘They want to save the world in 45 minutes’
Olga Alexeeva

‘They want to save the world in 45 minutes’

17 August 2011
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This is a shorter version of an interview with Olga Alexeeva published by CAF Russia’s magazine Money and Charity on 25 May, less than two months before she died. Carried out by Matvei Masaltsev, this interview reflects the unique insights into philanthropy around the world that informed all of Olga’s work, and in particular her most recent venture, the Philanthropy Bridge Foundation. Alliance thanks Sue Rogers for translating this from the Russian original. Click here to read ...


Interview - Svati Bhogle
Svati Bhogle

Interview - Svati Bhogle

01 August 2011
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Is holding competitions and giving awards an effective strategy for grantmakers? What happens to award winners further down the line? Caroline Hartnell spoke to Svati Bhogle, secretary of the non-profit TIDE India and founder and CEO of its profit-making sister company Sustaintech, about how the business has developed since winning the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2008 and how her own confidence has grown. Click here to read ...


Interview - Suraj Wahab
Suraj Wahab

Interview - Suraj Wahab

1 July 2011
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The winners of the 2011 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy were announced at a ceremony in London on 16 June. Among the five international award winners was Toyola Energy, which was set up in 2006 to make and distribute fuel-efficient cookstoves to low-income families in Ghana. Founder and CEO Suraj Wahab spoke to Caroline Hartnell about overcoming initial funding difficulties, the progress he has made so far, and what he would like the future to hold for his company. Click here to read ...


Interview - Jodi Nelson
Jodi Nelson

Interview - Jodi Nelson

1 May 2011
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In November 2007, Alliance talked to Fay Twersky, recently appointed to head up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s brand-new Impact Planning and Improvement Unit. Three and a half years later, Caroline Hartnell asked her newly appointed successor, Jodi Nelson, to what extent Bill and Melinda Gates’ original aims for the unit have been achieved. And what challenges does she face in her new role? One thing she emphasizes is the need to measure selectively and only when the results will actually be used to do something. Click here to read ...


Who are we to talk?
Emily Cavan Lynch

Who are we to talk?

Emily Cavan Lynch
23 May 2011
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A few months ago I stumbled onto that golden ticket of freelancers: a job that actually pays. For three weeks, I appeared at the bougainvillea-covered gate of an NGO in Haiti and happily dug into the gruelling work of proposal development. The team was great, the people pleasant and the work engaging. But given its nature, we ended up sitting at desks for much of the day. We were busy, yes, and the time was productive by the usual professional measures. But in a country like Haiti, where the informal economy is still so strong, this type of work continues to feel so out of place. Click here to read ...

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