Interviews

 

Interview - Dame Stephanie Shirley and Roberta d’Eustachio
Dame Stephanie Shirley

Interview - Dame Stephanie Shirley and Roberta d’Eustachio

1 January 2012
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In May 2009 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown invited Dame Stephanie Shirley to become the UK Ambassador for Philanthropy, a position that she held for a year but which was not renewed by the Coalition government that came to power in May 2010. In March 2010 the website AmbassadorsForPhilanthropy.com was launched. Over the last few months, people all over the world have been receiving an email inviting them to become ambassadors for philanthropy. Many have no idea what it is all about. Click here to read ...


Interview - Deborah Hargreaves
Deborah Hargreaves

Interview - Deborah Hargreaves

01 December 2011
Alliance magazine

‘The project is politically a bit dangerous ... It was a risk for JRCT too, because it was open-ended and we were going into uncharted territory.’

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Interview - René Olivieri and Sarah Ridley
René Olivieri

Interview - René Olivieri and Sarah Ridley

1 November 2011
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The Tubney Charitable Trust was set up in 1997 by Miles Blackwell, retired chairman of Blackwell booksellers, and his wife Briony, both of whom died unexpectedly just four years later. It was the wish of the founders that the trust should have a limited life, but they put no timescale on this. Caroline Hartnell spoke to René Olivieri, chair of the trustees, and executive director Sarah Ridley about the process of spending down. Click here to read ...


Interview - Diane Feeney
Diane Feeney

Interview - Diane Feeney

1 October 2011
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The French-American Charitable Trust (FACT) was set up in 1990 when Chuck Feeney gave a $40 million endowment to encourage his then wife and five children into the philanthropic arena. Several years ago, the trust’s board made the decision to spend down in the US by 2011 (although the French programme will carry on for one more year). As the curtains are drawn on the trust’s work, Caroline Hartnell spoke to the current director, Diane Feeney, about her experiences of running the trust and the decision to spend down. Click here to read ...


‘They want to save the world in 45 minutes’
Olga Alexeeva

‘They want to save the world in 45 minutes’

17 August 2011
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This is a shorter version of an interview with Olga Alexeeva published by CAF Russia’s magazine Money and Charity on 25 May, less than two months before she died. Carried out by Matvei Masaltsev, this interview reflects the unique insights into philanthropy around the world that informed all of Olga’s work, and in particular her most recent venture, the Philanthropy Bridge Foundation. Alliance thanks Sue Rogers for translating this from the Russian original. Click here to read ...


Interview - Svati Bhogle
Svati Bhogle

Interview - Svati Bhogle

01 August 2011
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Is holding competitions and giving awards an effective strategy for grantmakers? What happens to award winners further down the line? Caroline Hartnell spoke to Svati Bhogle, secretary of the non-profit TIDE India and founder and CEO of its profit-making sister company Sustaintech, about how the business has developed since winning the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2008 and how her own confidence has grown. Click here to read ...


Interview - Suraj Wahab
Suraj Wahab

Interview - Suraj Wahab

1 July 2011
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The winners of the 2011 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy were announced at a ceremony in London on 16 June. Among the five international award winners was Toyola Energy, which was set up in 2006 to make and distribute fuel-efficient cookstoves to low-income families in Ghana. Founder and CEO Suraj Wahab spoke to Caroline Hartnell about overcoming initial funding difficulties, the progress he has made so far, and what he would like the future to hold for his company. Click here to read ...


Interview - Deepak Gupta
Deepak Gupta

Interview - Deepak Gupta

1 June 2011
Alliance magazine

Husk Power is ready to scale up and the potential for others to replicate their model is huge. The government has a great subsidy programme that covers most of the costs of establishing biomass rural electrification projects. Yet even with the huge unmet demand for electricity in Bihar, we’re still not seeing that replication. Why is that, Caroline Hartnell and Simon Desjardins asked Deepak Gupta, Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy since 2008.

“I think the biggest challenge is to get more Mr Pandeys.”

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Interview - Chris West
Chris West

Interview - Chris West

1 June 2011
Alliance magazine

One of the things that undoubtedly holds back the growth of social enterprises, especially in emerging markets, is lack of access to funding. What are needed, argues Chris West of Shell Foundation, are local intermediaries to provide initial money and business skills support to help social enterprises demonstrate viable growth and then shift to accessing local commercial finance.

“I’ve always taken the view that Shell Foundation is a means to an end. We act as a bridge.”

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Interview - Vineet Rai
Vineet Rai

Interview - Vineet Rai

1 June 2011
Alliance magazine

You couldn’t find a better person to talk to about the ecosystem of funding for social entrepreneurs in India than Vineet Rai: he has created an almost complete ecosystem himself. He started Aavishkaar in 2001 to provide early-stage private equity, followed by Intellecap in 2002 to identify and support promising entrepreneurs. In 2007, IntelleCash was set up to help incubate start-up microfinance institutions, and in 2010 it launched a unique SME lending facility with support from Shell Foundation. So what’s still missing, Caroline Hartnell asked him. Click here to read ...


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