Philanthropy's go-betweens

Michael Alberg-Seberich and Felicitas von Peter
2 June 2008
Alliance magazine

In 2006 Warren Buffett decided to pass on US$30 billion of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation because, as he told newspapers at the time, he saw in the Foundation the intermediary that could produce as much impact for his social investment as possible.

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Donor-grantee relationships - some principles for good giving

Etienne Eichenberger and Maurice Machenbaum
1 June 2008
Alliance magazine

New philanthropy is not entirely new: what has changed is the way it is practised. New information, new space for interaction and new resources of advice are now available for donors. But any donor-grantee relationship should also match mutual expectations and available resources to increase the likelihood of the relationship being a good one. It is about what you want to achieve as much as how you want to achieve it.

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Interview - Terry Farris

1 May 2008
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Terry Farris has been working with individual and corporate philanthropists in Asia Pacific for ten years. ‘Philanthropy in Asia is different from that of North America and Europe,’ he says, ‘Philanthropy is so engrained in the family culture in Asia that it is hard to tell where philanthropy begins and ends in the family structure.’

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APPC - Diaspora philanthropy: an agent of change in Asia Pacific

1 April 2008
Alliance magazine

This is the question that APPC will submit to conference participants on 21-23 May in Hanoi, Vietnam. The question provides the conference theme and underlines and draws on the amount of research that has been done recently about how generous the Diaspora is in giving back to countries of origin, in material terms as well as through knowledge transfers and volunteerism. There is also evidence that charitable giving by the Diaspora is shifting to more strategic giving that is sustained and directed to achieving social change.

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Giving: How each of us can change the world - Bill Clinton

Pushpa Aman Singh
1 April 2008
Alliance magazine

Giving by Bill Clinton is a wonderful collection of a wide range of examples and stories of giving in all forms: time, skills, money and things. The book features every kind of giver - people of all age groups, of varied economic and social backgrounds in different continents, innovators and replicators, people of different religious faiths, the rational and emotional giver, the one-time and perpetual giver. It is highly likely that every reader will be inspired or provoked by at least one story.

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Impact Investing Collaborative launched

1 April 2008
Alliance magazine

The Rockefeller Foundation has launched the Rockefeller Impact Investing Collaborative, a global network of investors seeking to make investments that will generate both social value and financial returns. Efficiently matching these sources of capital to the entrepreneurs who can deploy it effectively could significantly help in implementing commercially viable solutions to many social problems and unlock substantial new capital for the social sector.

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The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune - Conor O'Clery

Felicitas von Peter and Michael Alberg-Seberich
1 April 2008
Alliance magazine

At first glance a man who wears a cheap watch, uses a plastic bag full of books as carry-on luggage and insists on flying economy is not your usual billionaire - or philanthropist. Chuck Feeney's humble character and his vision for a better world through fostering leadership are the ingredients of this unique story by Conor O'Clery. His biography of Chuck Feeney gives an insight into the work of one of the most successful entrepreneurs and philanthropists of our time. It shows that by finding and trusting in the right people and continuous learning from experience one can 'move mountains'.

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Carnegie Medal winner stresses continuing need for philanthropy

1 December 2007
Alliance magazine

Eli Broad and representatives of the Heinz, Mellon and Tata families received this year’s Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in October at a ceremony in Pittsburgh, USA, where Carnegie made his fortune. Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, India, who accepted the award on behalf of his family, reminded the audience that many people live below the poverty line ‘particularly in the part of the world I live in’. At a news conference after the ceremony, he added that more wealthy people around the world should contribute to philanthropic causes and that the extra assistance is particularly needed in developing countries.

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www.post-gazette.com/pg/07291/826327-28.stm

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Philanthropy Project to promote generosity in US

1 December 2007
Alliance magazine

With a $10 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the Philanthropy Project is out to transform every American man, woman and child into a philanthropist. Launched at the start of what is forecast to be the largest transfer of private wealth in human history, the aim is to substantially increase the percentage of that wealth going to philanthropy. Working with the American Film Institute, it will aim to inspire ageing Baby Boomers by telling the rousing, untold stories of the US’s 68,000 mostly small foundations.

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PNN Online, 5 November 2007

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Geneva Global expands European services

1 December 2007
Alliance magazine

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