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US philanthropy’s response to Obama’s tax proposal
Gara LaMarche

US philanthropy’s response to Obama’s tax proposal

Gara LaMarche
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

A new administration in Washington seems determined to narrow the gap between rich and poor, which has widened in recent years, and to begin to strengthen the fraying social safety net by pressing for national health care – a goal that has eluded presidents since Harry Truman. It is a heady time, but the changes have exposed some uncomfortable truths about parts of the US non-profit sector. Click here to read ...


Italian banking foundations join forces to respond to earthquake in Abruzzo

Massimo Lanza
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

On 6 April, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Abruzzo region in central Italy, leaving 295 people dead, 1,500 injured and more than 65,000 homeless. L’Aquila, the capital of the region, and 48 surrounding villages – all close to the quake’s epicentre – were severely damaged.

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Streamlined Ford clarifies grantmaking areas

1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

The Ford Foundation has unveiled the results of a two-year overhaul undertaken by new president Luis Ubiñas. The new-look Ford will focus its grantmaking in eight areas: access to education; democratic, accountable government; economic fairness and opportunity; freedom of expression; human rights; natural resources and sustainable development; sexuality and reproductive health and rights; and social justice philanthropy.

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New NGO Repository to aid grantmaking to non-US charities

1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

In October 2009, TechSoup Global, a San-Francisco-based technology non-profit, was selected by the Council of Foundations to host the NGO Equivalency Determination (ED) Repository, which will help US-based foundations provide grants to organizations around the world by streamlining the process of qualifying non-US grantees as the equivalents of US public charities. Pending approval from the IRS, the Repository is expected to launch in 2010.

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Hundred million dollars for Skoll’s new Urgent Threats Fund

1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

EBay founder Jeff Skoll has donated $100 million to start a new foundation, the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund, to address some of the world’s most pressing concerns like climate change, water shortages, pandemics and the Middle East conflict. The Foundation will be led by Larry Brilliant, who until February headed Google’s philanthropic enterprise, google.org.

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