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Foundation fellowships help train Iraqi women leaders

Eleanor Fink
1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

The first three fellows of the Iraqi Women’s Fellowship Foundation (IWFF) have just ‘graduated’, returning to Iraq in June this year. The foundation brings women in science and engineering from Iraq to study at US universities on a one-year fellowship.

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3rd World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists

Amir Dossal
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

The third annual World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists (WCMP) provided a unique forum for more then 250 international leaders from public and private sectors to discuss the role of social entrepreneurs and smart philanthropy in finding sustainable solutions to current global issues. This historic initiative, which is the brainchild of Dr Tariq Cheema, brought together key global players to discuss creative ideas to engage both the Muslim philanthropic community and others for addressing the Millennium Development Goals through new partnerships. Click here to read ...


Interview - Nabil Qaddumi
Dr Nabil Qaddumi

Interview - Nabil Qaddumi

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

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Abraaj Capital sets up 22-year-long fund for Palestinian orphans

1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

Dubai-based private equity group Abraaj Capital is donating US$10 million to a trust fund to help educate more than 1,200 Palestinian children and youth who lost parents during violence in Gaza in December and January. The fund, launched in May at a ceremony hosted by the King and Queen of Jordan, will be managed by the Palestinian-based Welfare Association. Strikingly, it will have a lifespan of 22 years, allowing it to support young children right through to adulthood.

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Making space for a redefined private sector
Fadi Ghandour

Making space for a redefined private sector

Fadi Ghandour
1 September 2009
Alliance magazine

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Proposed reform of Egyptian NGO law would threaten future of many

1 April 2009
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Rana Sadik

Solidarity giving to Gaza defies recession

Rana Sadik and Atallah Kuttab
1 March 2009
Alliance magazine

In 2008, there was no escaping the global recession in the Arab region, especially in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, better known as the Gulf states. The local economies are in a dire situation. The drop in oil prices, along with the severe downturn in local stock markets and the drop in demand for real estate, has sobered the excessive spending habits often associated with the Gulf.

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Data on philanthropy in the Arab region needed

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

In September, the John D Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University of Cairo and the Arab Foundations Forum (AFF) met to discuss issues related to quantitative data collection on philanthropy in the Arab region, including definitions and classifications and identifying the gaps in available data.

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Palestinians pilot community-based resource distribution

Nora Murad
1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory are the world’s largest per capita recipients of international aid, yet they have very limited influence over how that aid is used. Civil society’s dependence on international aid contributes to a host of problems, including donor-driven agendas, wasted human and financial resources, and fraudulent practices. Also, donor-dependent CSOs become accountable to their donors rather than to their local communities. Communities themselves often see very little of the aid money once the aid agency takes its administrative costs and the international NGO intermediary takes its cut. This leaves Palestinians without mechanisms for real participation, much less leadership, in their own social change and development.

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NEF - Mercator Fund expanding role

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

The NEF Mercator Fund, which initiates and supports projects related to Europe’s role in global social, security and development issues, is being expanded both in thematic and geographical terms. From 2008 onwards, its three main portfolios will be Global Insurgency, Public Security and Public Health. Within these three programmes, the NEF Mercator Fund is actively seeking new partnerships and co-funding opportunities with foundations and other organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US.

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