Alliance Magazine March 2006
Contents

NEWS AND CONFERENCES

• APPC conference focuses on philanthropy in disasters 2
• Joanna Kerr on the declining funding for women’s rights work 4
• EVPA hosts venture philanthropists from around Europe 5
• Two studies from the State of Social Giving in South Africa project 6
• An update on the Ford Foundation’s IISP project 7

ARTICLES

Eurasia Foundation going local (html)
Bill Maynes tells Alliance about the Foundation’s plan to turn its regional offices into independent foundations 8

The business of giving
Peter Grant explains the advantages of having a grantmaking MSc, the world’s first, located in a business school 10

Measuring social change
The obsession with measuring impact can lead us to measure the wrong things, argues Srilatha Batliwala 12

FOCUS ON … SUSTAINING COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY: LOOKING FOR NEW MODELS

The guest editors for this Alliance special feature are:
Shannon St John Senior Consultant to the Triangle Community Foundation, USA
Woraphat Arthayukti Vice Chair of Friendship to Community Foundation, Thailand

Questioning the conventional wisdom (html)
If community philanthropy organizations are to be sustainable the world over, we will need new models of sustainability, says Shannon St John 15

A response from Thailand
Woraphat Arthayukti responds to Shannon St John from the perspective of a country where community philanthropy organizations are a new concept 18

Interview
Won Soon Park of the Beautiful Foundation, Korea 20

Silver bullet or just part of the answer?
Barry Gaberman, Steen Jorgensen, Brigitte Mohn, Shari Turitz and Bill White on why they believe in community foundations 24

An expanding definition of community philanthropy
Linetta Gilbert on how her understanding of community philanthropy has broadened over the years 31

Different approaches to sustainability
While community foundations in the Philippines, Nebraska, USA and Zimbabwe are attracting a wide range of donors, Community Foundation Northern Ireland is relying on its track record of working in a post-conflict situation and the Gütersloh Foundation demonstrates that there’s life in the traditional US model yet 33

Community foundations in Central and Eastern Europe
Boris Strecanský looks at the role of community foundations in building an indigenous grantmaking culture, while Desislava Angelova reports on a programme to revive philanthropy in Bulgaria 38

Community foundations in Latin America
The US model will need adapting if it is to work in Latin America, believes Andrés Thompson 41

Who’s afraid of mutual aid?
We are missing a developmental trick if we treat gestures of solidarity and mutual aid as community philanthropy, argue Andrew Kingman and Jonathan Edwards 43

Building on existing traditions
Susan Wilkinson-Maposa asks what we can learn from philanthropy among poor people, while Roxana Mirciu considers the development potential of fiii satului giving in Romania 46

Companies in communities
Marcos Kisil looks at a new way for companies to become involved with communities in Brazil, while Vadim Samorodov looks at the situation in Russia and Adrián Aguirre describes a unique fiscal arrangement between the state government and employers in Chihuahua, Mexico 51

One campaign for all
Matt Gaston on the United Way model 52

PLUS ...

Book reviews 54
News from around the regions 56
Updates from EFC, NEF, APPC, Grantmakers Without Borders, WINGS and CIVICUS 58

From Alliance, Vol 11, No 1, March 2006

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