Future features

Every edition of Alliance magazine includes a 30 page special feature and three months of dedicated coverage looking in-depth at a pressing issue or topic. Our features are led by expert guest editors, and include peer dialogues, profiles and perspectives from around the world of philanthropy. Coming up:

June 2024: The common good

Most philanthropists would claim that enhancing the common good is at the heart of their philanthropic purpose. But how many live up to this expectation? How would philanthropy be different if pursuing the common good became the defining principle in efforts to find solutions to the decline of democracy, the onset of cataclysmic climate change, the erosion of civic media, and failures of digital governance and other interconnected problems. If advancing the public’s commitment to the common good is a key driver of social progress, then philanthropy has a key role compensating for the negative consequences of modern market capitalism—by balancing the forces of individual acquisition and consumption with those of the pursuit of the common good. This special feature will make the case for philanthropy to renew and prioritise the idea of the common good as a primary goal for the successful functioning of contemporary society.

Guest editors: Judith Symonds and Bruce Sievers

September 2024: Tax and philanthropy

What part do tax incentives play in promoting philanthropy and are they justified? Should donors rather be encouraged both to pay their taxes and do philanthropy, rather than incentivising them to give with what is essentially public money? If they are justifiable, under what circumstances? How should they be structured so they benefit less wealthy, rather than more wealthy givers?

Guest editor: Marlene Engelhorn, taxmenow

December 2024: The new economy

Details on pitching a 2025 special feature are here.

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