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The strange case of how it’s spent vs. what it achieves
Tris Lumley

The strange case of how it’s spent vs. what it achieves

Tris Lumley
31 August 2010
www.alliancemagazine.org

I’ve read a lot of annual reports in my time at New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). Big charities, small charities and the ones in between. And one thing always leaps out at me –charities are missing an opportunity to tell donors what they need to know. How so? By focusing on outputs and efficiency (telling donors what their money’s spent on), rather than outcomes and effectiveness (what their money has achieved). Click here to read ...


GuideStar Israel launched

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

GuideStar Israel was launched at the beginning of this month. Part of the growing family of national GuideStar portals, under the auspices of GuideStar International, the new online database has content in Hebrew, Arabic and English and lists information on the country’s 29,000 non-profit organizations registered with the National Registrar of Non-profit Organizations. GuideStar Israel is a joint project of the Israeli Ministry of Justice, Yad Hanadiv and JDC Israel, and is operated by NPTech. Click here to read ...


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Indian Philanthropy Forum - Indian philanthropy gets high-profile boost

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

Indian industrialist Shiv Nadar’s donation to his foundation last month of $125 million from his personal fortune catapults him into the list of India’s top philanthropists. The donation coincided with Bill Gates making the prediction that India will become second only to the US in its high-end philanthropy, a challenge the Indian Philanthropy Forum (IPF) is rising to.

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Foundation Center - Introducing the Nonprofit Collaboration Database

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

Mergers and collaborations are becoming ever more important to the non-profit sector, so the Foundation Center was delighted when it was selected earlier this year to be the new home of the Nonprofit Collaboration Database.

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Association of Small Foundations - National Conference

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

This will be held in Austin, Texas, 11-13 October. Speakers will include Philip and Donna Berber (pictured), founders of A Glimmer of Hope, a foundation based in Austin that provides clean water, schools, health clinics and microfinance loans in Ethiopia.

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EFC - Tbilisi to host Grantmakers East Forum 2010

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

The 15th annual Grantmakers East Forum (GEF), entitled ‘Facing the Extremes’, will take place 26-27 October in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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GIFE - Online platform unites Brazilian philanthropists

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

In June, GIFE (Group of Institutes, Foundations and Enterprises) held its first-ever web conference to bring together the most prominent philanthropy groups in Brazil. Also used as a training tool, these online meetings seek to overcome the geographical divides that separate foundation and other non-profit professionals from each other.

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NEF - European Fund for the Balkans three years on

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

In June this year, the four founding partners of the European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) – Robert Bosch Stiftung, King Baudouin Foundation, Compagnia di San Paolo and Erste Foundation – renewed their commitment to the Fund for the next three years.

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CIVICUS - Strengthening NGO accountability

1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

As the network of civil society organizations continues to proliferate across the globe, the sector faces increasing pressure to respond to growing concerns about legitimacy, transparency and accountability. A new initiative of CIVICUS, the Legitimacy, Transparency and Accountability (LTA) Programme, launched in July, aims to tackle this.

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Venture philanthropy strategies for foundations

Ashley Metz Cummings and Lisa Hehenberger
1 September 2010
Alliance magazine

The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) uses the term venture philanthropy (VP) to describe grantmaking and social investment that involves six characteristics: a hands-on relationship between the social enterprise or non-profit management and the venture philanthropist; use of a range of financing mechanisms; multi-year support; non-financial support; a focus on organizational capacity-building; and performance measurement.

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