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Interview - Peter Slater
Peter Slater

Interview - Peter Slater

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

Peter Slater founded the Indo-China Starfish Foundation (ISF) in Cambodia with some friends in 2006. Despite having a demanding job as Deputy CEO of a specialized financial institution, he made time to set up and then significantly expand ISF in a relatively short period of time. To do this he relied on support, advice and guidance from family and friends rather than any formal philanthropy advice, he told Caroline Hartnell. In addition, he uses CAF to structure his more regular giving.

Do you have any sort of philanthropy adviser?

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Shiv Nadar

Indian Philanthropy Forum - Indian philanthropy gets high-profile boost

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

Indian industrialist Shiv Nadar’s donation to his foundation last month of $125 million from his personal fortune catapults him into the list of India’s top philanthropists. The donation coincided with Bill Gates making the prediction that India will become second only to the US in its high-end philanthropy, a challenge the Indian Philanthropy Forum (IPF) is rising to.

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Official outlook continues uncertain for Chinese NGOs

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

Recent moves in China seem designed to ease regulation for local civil society organizations. However, the attitude towards national-level NGOs that receive external funding remains lukewarm. Local experiments, says a paper by Karla Simon and Hang Gao, are being conducted to eliminate the dual management requirement for small community civic organizations (CCOs) in various ways. These include a modified dual management system, a documentation system and a system of registration and management by local Civil Affairs departments.

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China Foundation Center launched in July

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

In a move to increase the transparency of Chinese charitable groups, some of China’s most recognized philanthropic leaders combined to launch in July the China Foundation Center (CFC), a result of 20 years of sectoral self-regulation efforts.

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Tackling the Agent Orange legacy in Vietnam
Charles Bailey

Tackling the Agent Orange legacy in Vietnam

Charles Bailey
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Every war leaves behind deep scars, on the bodies and minds of soldiers and civilians alike, and on the lands that were turned into battlefields. In the case of the Vietnam War, few scars have proved as painful or lasting as those caused by the use of Agent Orange. Click here to read ...


Interview - Hugh Davidson
Hugh Davidson

Interview - Hugh Davidson

1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

In November 2009, a group of 16 donors from around the world travelled to China for a module of The Philanthropy Workshop, the Institute for Philanthropy’s international donor education programme. Following the week-long module, one of the participants – Hugh Davidson, from the UK – shared his thoughts with the Institute on the funding challenges and opportunities that he saw in China.

How did China help you to reflect upon your funding strategy?

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Interview - Geraldine Kunstadter
Geraldine Kunstadter

Interview - Geraldine Kunstadter

1 April 2010
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The Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation was set up in 1952. It made its first direct overseas grant in 1987. It now makes 16 grants a year, eight in the US and eight abroad. Geraldine Kunstadter, now 82, runs the foundation and visits all their projects each year. But she’s unhappy with the state of philanthropy these days – with the arrogance of foundations that regard themselves as the ‘experts’ on everything, with the way they make life difficult for NGOs rather than helping them do what they do, with the over-emphasis on measurement. Click here to read ...


Pratham wins fifth Kravis Prize

12 March 2010
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Pratham, India’s largest educational non-profit organization, has been awarded the Henry R Kravis Prize in Leadership. Founded in 1994, Pratham aims to improve the quality of education for India’s most vulnerable children. Its flagship programme, Read India, works with governments and communities to improve the reading, writing and basic arithmetic skills of children aged between 6 and 14 and has reached around 34 million children to date. Click here to read ...


Accelerating the business of social change

Neera Nundy
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

‘An organization can either be a baby or a dwarf,’ claimed Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease – a baby will grow with the right energy and inputs, whereas a dwarf will always stay the same size. How to ensure your social enterprise is a ‘baby’ was the overall theme of the opening session ‘Lessons Learnt, Fingers Burnt’ of the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, held on the 8–9 December at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Click here to read ...


Interview - Nonette Royo
Nonette Royo

Interview - Nonette Royo

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Based in South-east Asia, with offices in Indonesia and Northern Mindanao, Philippines, the Samdhana Institute works on rights and environmental advocacy issues including forest conservation, river protection and critical mining areas, giving mainly very small grants. Why has it chosen to work like this, Chet Tchozewski asked Samdhana executive director Nonette Royo.

First, how small are small grants? And what do you use them for?

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