September 2008

New emperor, old clothes? International funding – who’s setting the agenda?

Volume 13 , Number 3

PDF - £10.00 Hard copy (£15.00)

Close

September 2008

New emperor, old clothes? International funding – who’s setting the agenda?

Volume 13 , Number 3

more details

Discounts
  • 5+ magazines and you'll get 20% off
  • 10+ magazines and you'll get 35% off
  • 15+ magazines and you'll get 45% off
  • 20+ magazines and you'll get 50% off
Add To Basket

The guest editors for this Alliance special feature are:
Michael Edwards
Olivier Kayser, Ashoka

The special feature in the September issue of Alliance looks at international funding and ‘philanthrocapitalism’. How do the characteristics of philanthrocapitalists – in other words, philanthropists adopting business methods – play out in the international funding arena? In particular, what are the implications for donor control and agenda-setting? Who identifies needs and solutions?

The special feature includes a series of articles looking at some developing country organizations that are succeeding in negotiating with northern funders and determining their own agendas – TrustAfrica and the African Women’s Development Fund; the recently established Foundations for Peace network; and SPARC in India. It also has interviews with Wolfgang Hafenmayer of LGT Venture Philanthropy, Alain Merieux of Fondation Merieux, and Alex Pryor of Guayaki exploring relations between philanthropy and business.

This issue of Alliance also includes an interview with Luis Ubiñas, new President of the Ford Foundation.

Special feature

Philanthropy – whose canvas?

1 September 2008
Michael Edwards

Matthew Bishop defines ‘philanthrocapitalism’ as ‘some of the world’s most talented and successful people … turning their minds to problems like education, disease, climate change and terrorism’. In some ways that’s the problem. As David Hulme points out in his survey of international development assistance, the ‘world’s most talented and successful people’ have been ‘developing’ the rest of the world for a hundred years or more, through colonization, foreign aid, military intervention and now philanthropy, …

Editorial

Exciting news from Alliance

A new website After ten years of publishing Alliance we have a huge archive of articles and interviews on a wide variety of themes from a wonderful set of contributors from all over the world. Many are as relevant now as they were when we published them. We want to make all of our content as accessible as possible for our readers, which is why I am so very pleased to be able to announce the launch of our new redeveloped website. While keeping the clean, easy-to-read look of our old website, our new one is fully searchable and uses …

Letters

How good is philanthropy?

Theresa Lloyd

Giving – it’s all good Recent articles, news stories and your own latest editorial in the June issue of Alliance …

Finding a niche or meeting the need?

Felicitas von Peter

Among the many excellent articles in the June Alliance special feature, I was particularly struck by Rory Tolentino’s statement that …

The importance of advocacy

Alliance magazine

Well-intentioned philanthropists are eager to see the fruits of their contributions: a new school erected, malaria nets distributed, acres of …

 
Become a subscriber Join our print or online subscription and access our entire archive issues
Subscribe