CEMEFI - Best CSR practices award for Latin America

As part of the International Seminar on Best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practices, Cemefi, along with the Network for Corporate Social Responsibility (AliaRSE) and the international network Forum Empresa, presented the Best CSR Practices Award on 27 September in Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico. The award ceremony host was UNIRSE Jalisco, a local network of corporate foundations that seeks to promote a new corporate culture in the area.

GIFE - Brazilian donors to discuss new departures in social investment

GIFE’s seventh annual conference, under the title ‘New Frontiers of Social Investment’, will be held next March in São Paulo. The event will explore how the need for innovation has brought new challenges to the sector. The conference theme and topics will form part of the Brazilian Social Investment Vision for 2020. Initiated last year, this process seeks to develop a relevant and legitimate sector embracing several topics, regions and communities, and supported by sustained and diversified investment.

Guatemalan presidential candidates pledge to maintain conditional cash transfer and other social programmes

The next Guatemalan administration, to whichever political stripe it belongs (at the time of writing, the election was undecided, with a second round of voting to be held early in November), is likely to keep the social programmes instituted by the administration of outgoing president Alvaro Colom (pictured). Giving the programmes continuity and improving and expanding them is a key pledge of all 10 presidential candidates. Click here to read ...

Calls for greater cross-sector collaboration in the region

The diminution of resources and the growing sophistication of both corporate social responsibility practices and social organizations all point to the need for greater cooperation between the sectors working on social development. Click here to read ...

Region sees uneven progress towards MDG on child health

While many countries in the so-called Southern Cone of Latin America have made significant progress in the area of child health, others have not – and even in the most advanced countries, progress remains uneven, with wide disparities within countries. Click here to read ...

CIVICUS World Assembly draws lessons from Arab Spring for CSOs

This year’s CIVICUS World Assembly, held in Montreal in September, boasted a strong Latin American presence, with roughly 10 per cent of the 900 delegates coming from the region, and Anabel Cruz, the only former CIVICUS president from Latin America, among the speakers. Click here to read ...

10,000 women for Brazil

Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), one of the academic partners for Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initiative, is recruiting women for its first 100-strong cohort of programme scholars in Rio de Janeiro. 10,000 Women is a five-year funding programme by Goldman Sachs to provide 10,000 underserved women around the world with a business and management education. It operates through a network of more than 75 academic and non-profit institutions. These partnerships help develop locally relevant coursework and improve the quality and capacity of business education worldwide. Click here to read ...

Three new Latin American and Caribbean investments for European venture philanthropy fund

Liechtenstein-based venture philanthropy organization LGT Venture Philanthropy has recently added three organizations from Latin America and Caribbean to its portfolio. Click here to read ...

CEMEFI - Non-Profit Institutions Satellite Account in Mexico

In May, the National Statistics and Geography Institute (INEGI) in Mexico presented the first results of the Non-Profit Institutions Satellite Account. The Mexican Center for Philanthropy (Cemefi) was part of the technical working group that prepared this.

GIFE - Movement for transparency in Brazilian foundations launched

As part of its goal to attain more legitimacy for the private social investment sector in Brazil, GIFE has begun a movement for transparency and accountability among foundations. The first step was to send all members a letter recommending that by 30 June every year all foundations should have an accountability report for the previous year posted on their websites.