Members Index - Alliance Magazine June 2005

NEWS AND CONFERENCES

Council on Foundations conference focuses on regulation and reform 2
Letters – Is social entrepreneurship all it’s hyped up to be, ask Luc Tayart and John Sayer 4
New Ford initiative to strengthen philanthropy across the world 5
Spotlight on business in Indonesia 6
INSP launches Rethinking Philanthropic Effectiveness 7

ARTICLES

From wide angle to narrow focus
On its tenth anniversary, Jo Andrews looks back at how the priorities of the Sigrid Rausing Trust have developed 8

Recipes for success
Lucy Bernholz considers the future of community philanthropy and suggests that its greatest strength is its close links with the communities it serves 11

A right angle on community philanthropy
Susan Wilkinson Maposa and Alan Fowler look at horizontal philanthropy – poor people and communities giving to each other 14

Not representative, but still legitimate
Nigel Martin reflects on FIM’s annual dialogue with G8 planning officials 16

FOCUS ON … FUNDING SOCIAL JUSTICE

The guest editors for this Alliance special feature are:
Firoze Manji, Executive Director of Fahamu and Editor of Pambazuka News
Gary Craig, Professor of Social Justice at the University of Hull, UK

Interview (html)
Betty Murungi on the work of Urgent Action Fund-Africa 18

Delivering social justice through philanthropy (html)
Gary Craig advances a definition of social justice and discusses how foundations can help bring it about. Plus comments from Charlie McConnell, Emmett Carson, Alexander Irwan and Philip Mendes 22

From noblesse oblige to solidarity
Correcting existing power relations is fundamental to social justice yet the funding process perpetuates a ‘relationship of unequals’, says Firoze Manji 28

Why does social justice so often lose out?
Stephen Pittam on why foundations and other funds are so reluctant to fund social justice 32

‘Out’-ing the social justice agenda
Ingrid Srinath describes CRY’s uneven transition to a social justice agenda 34

The metrics are the method
David Bonbright assesses the potential for measuring social justice philanthropy 37

Buying social change?
Social justice organizations need a better understanding of the ‘philanthropy marketplace’, argues Venkat Krishnan 38

Social justice not high on the agenda
South African business is reluctant to fund challenges to an often inequitable status quo, says Christa Kulijan 39

The politics of social justice philanthropy
Fateh Azzam on the Arab Human Rights Fund and why it is so badly needed in the Arab region 42

Building a sustainable movement
Oscar Vilhena on a new initiative to sustain the country’s human rights movement – the Brazilian Human Rights Fund 44

Doing good and being good
Alliance asked a number of grantmakers what a socially just foundation might look like, and how they put their convictions about social justice into practice 46

PLUS ...

Book reviews 50
News from around the regions 53
Updates from CIVICUS, EFC, Council on Foundations, APPC, WINGS, Grantmakers Without Borders 56
Snapshots on non-profit law and tax worldwide 59

From Alliance, Vol 10, No 2, June 2005