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SOCAP 11 – Where money meets meaning

Ekta Kothari
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Bringing together over 1,500 people from 75 countries, SOCAP 11 was a rendezvous for social impact investing, entrepreneurship and innovation. It lived up to its tag of ‘Where money meets meaning’, and saw a global gathering of everyone: NGOs, investors, foundations, social enterprises, consultants – in other words, almost everyone who is interested in this space. Click here to read ...


Indigo Trust, Omidyar Network and Institute for Philanthropy highlight ‘The Power of Information’

Jorge Solis
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

This lively one-day conference, entitled The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development, held in London on 15 September, brought together people from the philanthropy sphere with those who are applying new technologies in the field to mobilize communities, help them share knowledge, promote best practice, and hold governments and donors to account. Click here to read ...


An issue whose time has come: ICNL holds second global forum

Filiz Bikmen
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Promoting a ‘legally enabling environment for civil society and philanthropy’ is a niche field of work, recognized by many as essential, yet often unlikely to capture the headlines. However, critical developments over the past year, namely the Arab Spring, mobilization of the Community of Democracies and appointment of the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, have brought this issue front and centre on the global agenda. Click here to read ...


Putting the ‘citizen’ back in civil society organizations: a final look at the CIVICUS 2011 World Assembly

Patrick Johnston
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

The 2011 CIVICUS World Assembly has ended. This Assembly – the tenth in the history of CIVICUS – coincided with the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, which brought an added degree of poignancy to the discussions. Click here to read ...


Thoughts after the second day of the CIVICUS 2011 World Assembly

Patrick Johnston
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

It is late Sunday afternoon and the end of the second day of the 10th CIVICUS World Assembly, being held in Montréal. There is one more day to come. I am a bit weary and almost ‘conferenced out’ but I’ll use this post to offer some initial observations. At the end of the conference, I’ll provide another post with some concluding comments. Click here to read ...


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The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook: How to start, build and run a business that improves the world

Alison Bukhari
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Sitting here in Mumbai having spent a few days last week facilitating Dasra’s skills-building programme for social entrepreneurs, Dasra Social-Impact, it seems an apt time to be reviewing The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook. Rupert Scofield’s book is a series of case stories with advice from a mentor-like narrator.

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Giving Our All: Reflections of a spend-down charity

Diane Feeney
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

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Do More Than Give

Steven Burkeman
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Do More Than Give is full of unquestionably – relentlessly, even – positive instances of creative behaviour by (for the most part) US foundations. To examine it critically is rather like criticizing motherhood, and possibly even apple pie.

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Limitations of a ‘purist’ approach to human rights
Ute Seela

Limitations of a ‘purist’ approach to human rights

Ute Seela and Remko Berkhout
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

Rebecca Adamson’s critique in the June issue of Alliance of the traditional philanthropic paradigm (‘one gives, the other receives’) and the concomitant lack of agency on the part of the recipient may be relevant beyond the field of support to indigenous peoples. Cultural values and traditional mechanisms for decision-making play a role in matters of conflict and justice in many local communities, whether indigenous or not.

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Investors’ perspectives - Bridging the valley of death
Eoghan Mackie

Investors’ perspectives - Bridging the valley of death

Eoghan Mackie
01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

A number of people writing about social investment have used the term ‘valley of death’, including Simon Desjardins, writing in Alliance in June 2011, who wrote of ‘the valley of death between concept stage and commercial funding that plagues the social enterprise sector globally’. The approach Challenges Worldwide offers to bridge this valley is a combination of business development and investment support for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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