Letters

 

Is more debt the answer?

Malcolm Hayday
1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

Clara Miller’s perspective (in her article in the June issue of Alliance) is an important wake-up call for the developing social finance market. Charity Bank’s experience is that her observations are not uniquely American.

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IDIS and Resource Alliance form new partnership to stimulate Brazilian NPOs

15 July 2010
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Helping Brazilian non-profit organizations to achieve financial sustainability is among the principal objects of a strategic alliance between the Institute for the Development of Social Investment (IDIS) in Brazil and Resource Alliance. Among other things, it will help meet one of the challenges for the sector in Brazil: professionalizing the field of fundraising. ‘In Brazil, although we have advanced in the last ten years, we still have much to do,’ said local Resource Alliance representative Rodrigo Alvarez. Click here to read ...


Supporting the social economy worldwide?

Ben Metz
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

European foundations have a long history of supporting knowledge exchange to further the social economy, in Europe and increasingly in other parts of the world.  A window of opportunity has now opened up to build a global movement of developing social economies.

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Why continue the hero worship?

Pamela Hartigan
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

Tommy Hutchinson’s article in the March issue of Alliance asks why we focus on the heroic entrepreneur. What about the people in the organizations they set up who are often instrumental to its success? Social entrepreneurs cannot hope to scale their solutions without the support of other public and private sector stakeholders – and, most importantly, of the communities in which they work.

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Social transformation, one child at a time

Zanele Sibanda
1 June 2010
Alliance magazine

As Chet Tchozewski points out in his article ‘Getting to Maybe’ in the March issue of Alliance, the real impact of a small grant may not always be immediately visible. It takes time for life-changing, systemic transformation to be realized. His article also reminds us that, by their very nature, small grants provide an opportunity to build more resilient social movements that can have far-reaching and sustainable impact. But we should not forget the huge impact that small grants have on the lives of individuals.

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Guidestar UK and Directory of Social Change to join forces

4 March 2010
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On 3 March the Directory of Social Change (DSC) and GuideStar International (GSI) announced that ownership of www.guidestar.org.uk, the free public website, and GuideStar Data Services has been transferred from GSI to DSC. DSC is the largest publisher of information for those who work in the voluntary sector in the UK. Click here to read ...


Questions over Virgin’s giving

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Tommy Hutchinson’s piece ‘Doing good and wearing nice shoes is OK, Mr Branson’ captures rather well some widespread cynicism from the public regarding Virgin’s attempts to enter into social entrepreneurship. There is no difficulty in understanding some of Virgin’s possible motivations in a service involved in charitable giving, but I suspect few in the public think they are wholeheartedly public-spirited, which seems also to be Hutchinson’s view.

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Into the chamber of wishes?

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Olga Alexeeva is correct that philanthropy is sometimes ‘an accessory to a wealthy lifestyle’ rather than ‘an act that requires a complete moral worldview’. She is correct that across a range of traditions, philanthropy helps to maintain a status quo rather than change it. She is correct that much philanthropy is treated as a virtue in itself rather than a means to achieving clear and honest ends.

So, given this state of affairs, what’s to be done?

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When all that glitters is not gold . . .

Avila Kilmurray
1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

Reading the sorry saga of the Prešov Community Foundation in the September edition of Alliance, there must have been many who muttered, ‘There but for the grace of God – or Allah, or your chosen deity – go I.’ I know I certainly did. The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland acted as a delivery mechanism for EU funds for over a decade, under the PEACE I and PEACE II Programmes (1995-2007). These were very generous and well-intentioned funding packages made available to underpin the Northern Ireland peace process.

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Regranting a smart option? Etienne Eichenberger, Theresa Lloyd, Padraic Brick and Judith Symonds respond to Jacob Harold

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

A smart option, but an option

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