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Andrew Milner

Special feature Andrew Milner 5 March 2024

Not leaders, but leadership

It turned out that looking up leadership theories – and there are a number of them, one website identifies eight – was not much use in devising the introduction to this special feature. Leadership theories …

Interview Andrew Milner 5 March 2024 For Subscribers

Interview: Stig Arff discusses how carbon capturing technology can be used to reseal a Pandora’s box

The newly established Carbon Technology Research Foundation (CTRF) aims to finance research into nature-based processes to enhance the capture of atmospheric greenhouse gases – to see if similar processes of carbon capture that over millions …

Conference reports Andrew Milner 25 January 2024

Where there’s a will….: an impression of the Nordic Foundations Conference

Is there a collective Nordic identity? Do Nordic foundations embrace it and to what extent do they draw on it for the common benefit of the countries of the region? In terms of identity, there …

Opinion Andrew Milner 16 January 2024

Coming in to land

I have decided not to fly to any more conferences because I believe the harm I am doing by flying outweighs any value my presence at the conference might have. I neither make nor intend …

Interview Andrew Milner 19 December 2023 For Subscribers

Anne Berner discusses role of the third sector in Nordic society

A former minister in the government of Finland, a long career in business and chair of the board of the New Children’s Hospital Foundation in Helsinki, Anne Berner’s experience has a striking breadth. She is …

Special feature Andrew Milner 5 December 2023 For Subscribers

Time to reassess the tradition of keeping philanthropy and politics separate

In the early years of the Christian era, Pliny the Younger, then administrator of the Roman province of Bithynia-Pontus, wrote to the Emperor Trajan asking for permission to establish a ‘society of 150 firemen’ in …

Special feature Andrew Milner 5 September 2023

Understanding SDG-speak: Half-empty or half-full?

The SDGs continue to attract negative and positive commentary in almost equal measure The SDGs suffer from a problem of scale – or rather of how to mesh two scales, the grand and the miniature. …

Interview Andrew Milner 5 September 2023 For Subscribers

Interview: Shahira Ahmed Bazari of Yayasan Hasanah

Since 2021, Yayasan Hasanah, host and partner of this year’s AVPN Global Conference in Kuala Lumpur, has been working to redefine the concept of philanthropy in Malaysia. Hasanah trustee and managing director, Dato’ Shahira Ahmed …

Analysis Andrew Milner 5 September 2023 For Subscribers

Asian philanthropy: Differently does it…

The 2023 AVPN Global Conference in Kuala Lumpur illuminated how Asian philanthropy does not always operate in the same way as elsewhere One of the perennial fascinations of the AVPN conference is seeing the differences …

Interview Andrew Milner 28 August 2023

Unleashing philanthropic impulse: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Alliance in collaboration with WINGS has been commissioned by Propel Philanthropy to conduct a 10-part interview series on the work of Social Impact Infrastructure Organisations (SIIOs) and the benefits they bring to the sector. This interview …