And the Granada Declaration was signed…

Francisco Noguera
15 May 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

I’m back home in Washington after attending the ANDE Latin America Conference in Granada, Nicaragua. It was one of the most exciting trips I've made representing NextBillion. Granada was spectacular and the ANDE Latin America Conference stood out in many ways. Click here to read ...


6th GIFE Congress on Private Social Investment

Rodrigo Zavala
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Despite the heavy rains that had fallen on Rio de Janeiro since 5 April, the 6th GIFE Congress on Private Social Investment took place on 8 and 9 April in the city, bringing together about 800 national and international leaders from the social field. Under the theme ‘Visions for 2020’, the event laid out the directions to be followed by the sector in Brazil over the next decade. Click here to read ...


Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference

Robyn Scott
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

The theme of this year’s GEO Conference in Pittsburgh on 12-14 April, ‘Unleashing Philanthropy’s Potential: Smarter Grantmaking for Better Results’, was firmly in line with GEO’s focus: how funders can help their grantees achieve success and meaningful results. Sessions throughout the conference clearly reflected what is being done and what could be done to improve philanthropic impact.   Click here to read ...


Katrina @ 5: Partners in Philanthropy

Lennie Magida
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Nearly five years ago, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused unprecedented devastation in and around New Orleans, and in towns and rural areas throughout the Gulf Coast region of the US. The storms laid bare a long list of grievous problems, from inadequate infrastructure to government incompetence and social inequity. They also stirred a stunning outpouring of philanthropic support – desperately needed, tremendously helpful, but not without missteps. Click here to read ...


3rd World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists

Amir Dossal
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

The third annual World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists (WCMP) provided a unique forum for more then 250 international leaders from public and private sectors to discuss the role of social entrepreneurs and smart philanthropy in finding sustainable solutions to current global issues. This historic initiative, which is the brainchild of Dr Tariq Cheema, brought together key global players to discuss creative ideas to engage both the Muslim philanthropic community and others for addressing the Millennium Development Goals through new partnerships. Click here to read ...


1st Pacific Northwest Global Donors conference

Betsy Brill
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Pathways for Strategic Giving, held on 19 and 20 March in Seattle, Washington was the inaugural gathering of a new community of global donors, Pacific Northwest Global Donors. Over 180 donors attended, including representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates, Channel, Seattle, Seattle International and Washington Women’s Foundations, as well as from the World Affairs Council, giving circle members and individual donors in the Northwest. Click here to read ...


Charité Entrepreneurship Summit for Healthcare

John Lotherington
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Held in Berlin in March 2010, the Charité Entrepreneurship Summit for Healthcare brought together some 400 people − scientists, medics and tech transfer experts alongside entrepreneurs, business angels, venture capitalists and patent lawyers, among others − from Europe and the US. A central goal for the Summit was to look for innovative ways of bridging the 'valley of death', that chasm between the inspiration in the lab and its arrival as medication or an appliance in use. Click here to read ...


Skoll World Forum 2010

Alejandro Litovsky
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Can a single social entrepreneur make a dent in the problems we face, given their phenomenal scale? This was one of the questions addressed by the 7th Skoll World Forum held at Oxford’s Saïd Business School from 14 to 16 April. The simple answer is: very unlikely. So a series of plenary sessions and workshops brought together entrepreneurs with representatives of government, media, large companies and financial institutions to explore how the solutions proposed by social entrepreneurs could create larger-scale change.    Click here to read ...


Underlining the need to remove obstacles to cross-border working

Rosa Gallego
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

More than 90 people attended the seminar on cross-border philanthropy in Europe, organized by the Academy of European Law (ERA), the European Foundation Centre (EFC), King Baudouin Foundation, Fondation Fournier-Majoie and Transnational Giving Europe, which explored the barriers foundations face when working across borders and reviewed the latest legal and fiscal developments and possible solutions. Click here to read ...


Accelerating the business of social change

Neera Nundy
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

‘An organization can either be a baby or a dwarf,’ claimed Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease – a baby will grow with the right energy and inputs, whereas a dwarf will always stay the same size. How to ensure your social enterprise is a ‘baby’ was the overall theme of the opening session ‘Lessons Learnt, Fingers Burnt’ of the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, held on the 8–9 December at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Click here to read ...


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