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Brizio Biondi-Morra

Interview - Brizio Biondi-Morra

1 May 2005
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The AVINA Foundation works in 14 countries in Latin America. One of its key aims is to strengthen the sustainability of its 1,600 partner organizations. How does it do this, Alliance asked AVINA President Brizio Biondi-Morra. Click here to read ...


John Healy

Interview - John Healy

1 April 2005
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Three years ago, in early 2002, a decision was made that The Atlantic Philanthropies would spend down their then almost $4 billion endowment over a period of 12-15 years. If a foundation is going to go out of business in that time, it will naturally want to ensure that it achieves as much as possible in its chosen fields, leaving a lasting and visible legacy behind it. So how has the decision to spend down affected the style of grantmaking, the grantmaking decisions, the way you approach things, Alliance asked John Healy, Chief Executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies. Click here to read ...


Can social entrepreneurship ever be ‘cool’?

Sunit Shrestha and S Dev Appanah
1 March 2005
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Across the globe, social entrepreneurship is gathering momentum. More and more social entrepreneurs have gained recognition in countries as diverse as India and the United States and the concept itself has spread all the way from the rural communities that Ashoka Fellows serve to the United Nations. Click here to read ...


Varied but vulnerable: the non-profit sector in West Africa

Kofi Awity
1 March 2005
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The non-profit sector in West Africa is a varied one including groups as diverse as religiously motivated welfare societies, neighbourhood development associations, trade unions, hometown associations, international NGOs, and sport and recreation groups. This diversity notwithstanding, the sector in the region generally remains vulnerable. It is dependent on overseas funding. Its image is frequently unfavourable, both in official circles, where it is often viewed with suspicion, and among the wider public, who see examples of political partisanship and incompetence. Click here to read ...


What would it take to really get global philanthropy going?

Andrew Milner
1 March 2005
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In its December 2004 edition, Alliance held a roundtable on increasing global philanthropy with a panel of respondents involved in the field from around the world. From the ensuing debate, two things stood out most clearly: the need to create a new culture of giving among individuals, and the need to make it easier for them to give, both by simplifying the process and by assuring them that their donations are going to reliable groups. Click here to read ...


Preventing the abuse of non-profits to finance terrorism – the EU response

Siobhan Daly and Helmut Anheier
1 March 2005
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Following September 11 2001, the legal and regulatory frameworks within which non-profit organizations (NPOs) function have been the subject of intense scrutiny in order to prevent their abuse for terrorist purposes. In this short article, we consider the European Union response to possible abuse, particularly with regard to the use of NPOs for financing terrorism. In general, both the EU response and the non-profit response to it has been a much more muted affair than has been seen in the US.

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Interview - Mathew Cherian, Alex Irwan and Andrew Harding

1 February 2005
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Money raised for tsunami victims should be going to indigenous charities rather than international agencies with costly overheads, argued freelance journalist Nick Cater in the Guardian newspaper on 11 January. Robin Le Mare of ActionAid disagreed (Guardian, 18 January). If individuals had donated direct to indigenous NGOs, he said, the tsunami relief operation would have been wasteful, uncoordinated and disastrously underfunded. Is this true? Click here to read ...


Jerry Almeida

Interview - Jerry Almeida

1 January 2005
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For the first 32 years of its existence, ActionAid India Society received its funds mainly from European branches of ActionAid, raised through child sponsorship. In March 2004, they started raising funds from individuals in India, but they have rejected the child sponsorship approach. Instead, ActionAid India head Jeroninio (Jerry) Almeida explained to Alliance, they decided to pioneer a completely new approach and tell what he calls ‘the real story’ – an approach which has succeeded in raising around €300,000 from 40,000 individual donors in the first nine months. Click here to read ...


Rob Buchanan

US international grantmaking tops $3 billion

Rob Buchanan
1 December 2004
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Annual foundation and corporate funding for international programmes reached $3 billion for the fourth year in a row in 2003, despite an economic downturn, terrorist attacks, and the ongoing war on terror, according to International Grantmaking III: An update on US foundation trends, a new report prepared and published by the New York City-based Foundation Center with the support and collaboration of the Council on Foundations. Click here to read ...


US charities propose alternative to Treasury Guidelines

Barnett Baron
1 December 2004
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Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the US Government took a number of steps to tighten rules governing international financial transactions, philanthropic grantmaking, and other resource flows from US-based charitable institutions. These included Executive Order 13224 (September 2001), the Patriot Act (October 2001), and the Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines: Voluntary Best Practices for US-based Charities, issued by the Treasury Department in November 2002. Click here to read ...


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