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 …

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 …

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.  …

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 …