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Biden Administration announces over $140 million in grants towards indigenous land restoration

29 November 2023
Shafi Musaddique

The Biden-Harris administration has announced a joint public-private partnership, that includes a major conservation foundation, in providing $141.3 million spread over 74 grants.  In a statement, the US government said it, alongside the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, will support “landscape-scale conservation projects across 46 states, three US Territories, and 21 Tribal Nations, and will generate at least $12 million in matching contributions for a total conservation impact of more than $153 million”.   Projects …

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Boards – blockers or drivers of transformation? 

29 November 2023
Matt Jackson and Jillian Popkins

The current debate on transformation in the sector can’t leave out the critical role the board can and must play. Trustees are often characterised as risk averse, slow or resistant to change – and many CEOs will have uttered the words, ‘the board will never sign that off’.  But how true is this?  Are all boards caught between caution, outright conservatism and/or their own comfort with the status quo? Or is there a frustrated desire …

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Mackenzie Scott’s large, unrestricted donations down from 2020, but continues to transform philanthropy 

28 November 2023
Shafi Musaddique

A three-year study released by the Centre for Effective Philanthropy examining the impact of unrestricted donations from major US philanthropist Mackenzie Scott says her giving has had a transformative effect, despite the size of her recent decreasing in comparison to three years ago. Scott’s grants are typically much larger than the grants of even large foundations and so-called ‘megadonors’. Nonprofit organisations in this study received grants from Scott that ranged from $500,000 to $80 million.  …

Analysis

Participatory grant making is key to shifting the power

28 November 2023
Deborah Doane

What’s the best prescription for achieving the SDG’s? For international NGOs and funders to cede power and control over decision-making to the constituents they aim to serve. That’s the conclusion of a prototype trial on participatory grant-making (PGM) undertaken through the RINGO Project and led by Transform Trade, an INGO that supports farmers and workers to achieve trade justice, alongside Norsaac, a human rights organisation working with women and young people in Ghana. For the …

Opinion

World problems escalate as philanthropy feels the pressure  

27 November 2023
Paul Ronalds

The humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Middle East is powerfully demonstrating the spiraling global need for greater overseas aid funding …

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Marshall Institute’s Accelerator Summit Day to take place in London 

24 November 2023
Shafi Musaddique

A summit organised by the LSE Marshall Institute’s impact accelerator programme, 100x, is set to take place on 28 November …

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Nigerian philanthropy totalling half a billion in last five years 

23 November 2023
Shafi Musaddique

Nigerian philanthropists have given a total of $434.17 million in the last five years, according to a report published by …

Practical advice

Giving Tuesday: Find Sustainable Success in 2023

23 November 2023
Cara Dickerson

In 2022, over $3.1 billion was raised on Giving Tuesday, and donor retention is 2.4 times higher from that day …

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Top 25 global funders account for more than three quarters of direct giving

22 November 2023
Shafi Musaddique

The top 25 global funders account for more than three quarters of direct giving between 2016 and 2019, according to a …

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Abu Dhabi to host 2024 AVPN annual conference

21 November 2023
Shafi Musaddique

The UAE will host next year’s AVPN annual flagship Global Conference event, bringing together investors, philanthropists, policymakers and funders.  Taking …

Analysis

Voice for Social Good – Hong Kong initiative for full-funding principle for NGOs

21 November 2023
Pia Wong, Victoria Wisniewski Otero and Angelyn Lim

Have you ever wondered: how much of my donation to a charity goes to those in need? It’s tempting to …

Editorial

More than nothing, but not enough: UK funding to LGBTI communities in the Global South and East

20 November 2023
David Sampson

This year has been one of celebration and commiseration for global LGBTI communities.  The Cook Islands and Mauritius have decriminalised …

Analysis

The transformative potential of listening

20 November 2023
Alex Ross

Listening and responding to people’s views and voices and centring them in decision making are key ingredients for shifting power. …