Interviews

 

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? Click here to read ...


Interview - Jacqueline Delia-Brémond
Jacqueline Delia-Brémond

Interview - Jacqueline Delia-Brémond

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Fondation Ensemble was set up in December 2004 with the dual aim of fighting poverty and protecting the environment. Since then, it has been involved in more than 100 projects around the world, mostly providing funding of between €150,000 and €300,000 on a three-year basis. In 2008, the foundation set up a micro-grants fund dedicated to funding smaller projects with grants of between €3,000 and €30,000. Caroline Hartnell spoke to co-founder Jacqueline Delia-Brémond about why this programme was set up and how it is working. Click here to read ...


Interview - Marion Rockefeller Weber
Marion Rockefeller Weber

Interview - Marion Rockefeller Weber

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

‘May the rivers of wealth be undammed and flow freely over the earth. May the gifts move through increased hands until all people experience the abundance of life.’ These words appear on the home page of www.flowfunding.org, initiated by Marion Rockefeller Weber. Grand-daughter of J D Rockefeller, Jr and daughter of Laurance S Rockefeller, Marion Weber was born into philanthropy but she has taken a unique path, as she explained to Chet Tchozewski. Click here to read ...


Interview - Martin Brookes
Martin Brookes

Interview - Martin Brookes

1 February 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

Various influential pieces of research have suggested that donors would give more if only they knew where and how to give it, and that most of the sources to whom individuals and organizations turn for advice on money matters are ill equipped to provide that information. So while philanthropy advice is undoubtedly a growing industry, it needs to grow more, reckons Martin Brookes, chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). Caroline Hartnell talked to him about NPC’s work, about how to build up the market and about what developments are in the pipeline. Click here to read ...


Interview - Kumi Naidoo
Kumi Naidoo

Interview - Kumi Naidoo

18 January 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

Few people would disagree that the outcome of the recent Copenhagen conference was very disappointing. But are there positive things that we can build on, Caroline Hartnell asked Kumi Naidoo, the new executive director of Greenpeace International. What can individuals, civil society and private foundations do to ensure we do reach the global deal we need? Advocacy for policy change at global level is the priority now, says Naidoo. Foundations should step up their funding, and should be willing to support civil disobedience along with other approaches. Click here to read ...


Interview - Pieter Stemerding
Pieter Stemerding

Interview - Pieter Stemerding

1 January 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

Established in 2005 by the Van Vliet family, following the sale of their asset management company, the Adessium Foundation can be hailed as a newcomer to that all too select group: philanthropy infrastructure funders. Having found it difficult to find good advice when they were starting out, the family decided to look into setting up a resource for the philanthropy sector as a whole. The result is the Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy (ECSP), launched on 23 September. Click here to read ...


Interview - Rishi Khosla

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

Although philanthropy in India is undergoing a boom, there is little evidence of what effect this is having. In order to begin to remedy this, New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and India-based organization Copal Partners began an investigation into Indian non-profits last year, working in Delhi and Rajasthan. The research found, largely as expected, that thoughtful giving, and the research to inform that giving, were the exception rather than the rule. Why is this and what is to be done? Click here to read ...


Interview - Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing

Interview - Sigrid Rausing

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

The Sigrid Rausing Trust was founded in 1995 to promote international human rights. Why is this such a priority, Alliance asked founder Sigrid Rausing, and shouldn’t local donors be supporting human rights in their own countries?

Why are you involved in grantmaking to support social justice and human rights? Click here to read ...


Interview - Jet Li
Jet Li

Interview - Jet Li

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

Actor Jet Li is one of the world’s most famous martial arts experts. He was born in Beijing, the old Beijing, with dusty hutongs and hardly any cars on the streets, in 1963, when Mao was still in power. He says he knows what poverty is, first hand. As a child he quickly excelled in martial arts; aged 11, he took part in a performance for Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger on the White House lawn. He has featured in over 38 films, starting his film career in Hong Kong before moving to Hollywood. Click here to read ...


Interview - Regina Vidigal Guarita
Regina Vidigal Guarita

Interview - Regina Vidigal Guarita

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, the Fundaçao Maria Cecília Souto Vidigal describes itself as an ‘intelligence organization’, helping to produce and disseminate ideas and information on solutions to Brazil’s social problems. Olga Alexeeva talked to Regina Vidigal Guarita, its president and daughter of the founder, about how, as a donor, she sees her responsibility to society and whether being involved in philanthropy produces a greater sense of that responsibility. Click here to read ...


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