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Making small grants: where to start

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

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Small grants fill a niche
Bill Belding

Small grants fill a niche

Bill Belding
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

With two-thirds of the 70,000 US private foundations having assets of less than $1 million, what value can small foundations bring to international philanthropy? In 2009 the Association of Small Foundations launched an international programme to learn from and educate our members on ways to give globally. We found that small grants to international causes can have a big impact. They also promote the diversity of actors and ideas working in developing countries. Small foundations fill a special niche – and they come with more than money. Click here to read ...


Small grants in a big country
Helena Monteiro

Small grants in a big country

Helena Monteiro
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

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Making metrics work for small grantmakers
Maya Ajmera

Making metrics work for small grantmakers

Maya Ajmera and Victoria Dunning
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The difficulty and expense of measuring the impact of small grants is often seen as a drawback to making such grants at all. Can measurement systems be developed that do not overburden grantees and whose costs are not totally disproportionate to the size of the grants? The Global Fund for Children (GFC), a global grassroots grantmaker and one of a growing number of intermediary grantmakers, has recently developed a set of metrics to better measure and assess its impact. Their experience may begin to answer this question. Click here to read ...


Follow the hummingbird…
Wangari Maathai

Follow the hummingbird…

Wangari Maathai
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

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A distinct role for small grants…
Ezra Mbogori

A distinct role for small grants…

Ezra Mbogori
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

At the end of the first decade of the new millennium, it is clear that many countries will fail to meet several of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Compelling reasons might be advanced for this, but we should all feel more than a tinge of guilt for failing to attain standards that themselves fall well below aspirations that existed prior to the Millennium Declaration. Click here to read ...


Giving more so women can do more
Nicky McIntyre

Giving more so women can do more

Nicky McIntyre and Annie Hillar
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

After 25 years of funding women’s human rights organizations throughout the world, Mama Cash recently launched its new grantmaking strategy. The key changes from our work in the past are a switch from a regional to an issues-based approach, giving longer-term and larger grants, and giving fewer grants. By focusing on a smaller pool of groups, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of the issues they are addressing, and to better assist our grantees to create and take opportunities to learn, grow, and effectively defend and advance women’s and girls’ rights. Click here to read ...


Small grants and social change
Stephen Pittam

Small grants and social change

Stephen Pittam
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

When the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust more than doubled in size in 1988 following the takeover of the Rowntree Company by Nestlé, an interesting debate took place within the trust over whether it should split into two. A key issue was whether the trustees were comfortable with the greater power increased wealth would bring. Twenty years on, it is hard to believe that the debate happened. The trustees quickly grew used to their increased spending power. Click here to read ...


Getting to maybe
Chet Tchozewski

Getting to maybe

Chet Tchozewski
1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

The cover photo of a butterfly poised for flight represents the so-called ‘butterfly effect’, the idea that seemingly trivial events can have a great impact on complex adaptive systems. The tiny movement of air from the flapping of a butterfly’s wing, for instance, might somehow contribute to the emergence of a tornado. For scientists, the butterfly effect illustrates the idea that sometimes a tiny force – even far away or long ago – can ultimately have a surprising impact on a large system. Click here to read ...


Reflections on philanthropy, moral and otherwise
Peter Karoff

Reflections on philanthropy, moral and otherwise

Peter Karoff
1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

This issue of Alliance is on dangerous and radical ground. Dangerous because a gauntlet has been thrown down by guest editor Olga Alexeeva, who challenges the motivation and ethics of donors who appear not to practise what they preach, and whose theme of donor social responsibility is expanded upon by writers Rishi Khosla, Irina Prokhorova, Nabil Qaddumi and Barbara Ibrahim. Click here to read ...


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