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CEE Trust begins year-long debate on democratization

Rayna Gavrilova
1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Commemorations are generally as much about investing efforts in the future as about paying respect to significant events in the past, and this is true of the year-long discussion about the current state, achievements, and future of civil society in the region initiated by the Trust for Civil Society in Central & Eastern Europe (the CEE Trust). The Civil Society Forum will mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and will culminate in an international conference in September 2009. It has grown out of a concern about the widening gap between the general and undisputed commitment to democracy and the mass (self) exclusion of citizens from the democratic process.

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Big Issue Invest to launch Social Enterprise Venture Fund

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Big Issue Invest, part of The Big Issue group of companies, is launching a social investment fund in the UK in September to help scale up social enterprises. It will raise both charitable and direct private investment and deliver both social and financial returns.

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Global Fund for Community Foundations moves towards independence

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

As a ten-month consultation process aimed at exploring its future draws to an end, the Global Fund for Community Foundations – originally conceived as a three-year pilot project – is now moving towards incorporation as an independent entity.

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New Centre for Asian Philanthropy in Singapore

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

The Centre for Asian Philanthropy (CAP) was officially launched in Singapore in February 2008 amidst a rising tide of philanthropy in Asia. In Singapore alone, charities pulled in a record $820 million last year – a jump of more than 50 per cent from 2006. The first generation of ‘chequebook signing’ philanthropists is slowly being succeeded by a second generation of ‘high-engagement giving’ philanthropists. The purpose of setting up CAP is to facilitate such high-engagement giving in an effective and strategic manner as well as increasing levels of giving to community causes in Asia.

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US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership to become independent

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

This summer, the Synergos Institute will formally hand over management of the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership (BPP) to its bi-national governing board. It will be constituted as an independent, 501(c)(3) organization in the US and an Asociación Civil in Mexico. Since its inception in 2002, it was anticipated that the Partnership would eventually grow out from under Synergos’s management to become an independent, locally directed entity.

Funders often struggle with exit strategies for projects they have supported over a number of years. In the case of BPP, funders and the grantee, Synergos, have been working together over the past two years to establish a well thought out plan to turn the Partnership into an autonomous entity.

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