Author Archive:
Andrew Milner
The quest for collaboration in Asia
The potential advantages of far-reaching collaboration underpinned AVPN’s conference in Singapore. But it is a virtue more often preached than practised. Underlying all the themes at the recent AVPN conference in Singapore was the idea …
Interview: Safeena Husain, founder of Educate Girls
Safeena Husain knows exactly what she’s talking about. Herself the product of a troubled childhood and a curtailed education, she founded Educate Girls to tackle the problem of out-of-school children in India, one of three …
Listening to the voice of the beneficiary
Funders are too far away from the end-beneficiaries of their programmes. Hearing what they have to say about them can help refine and improve those programmes. It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? And yet the practice …
Energy, curiosity and urgent questions on the AVPN agenda
The 2019 AVPN conference in Singapore put its cards firmly on the table from the start. The focus would be on big themes: education, gender equality, hunger and malnutrition, and climate change – most of …
The interesting narrative
Consider the following: ‘The Local Support Group in X started its operational phase in 2008 with a focus on three priority areas: spaces, identity and culture. The first project was the establishment of a ‘creativity …
International currents at the Association of German Foundations gathering in Mannheim
As part of Deutscher Stiftungstag 2019 in Mannheim, the Association of German Foundations ran a series of English-language sessions to introduce an international perspective to the country’s foundation sector. The general conference theme of democracy …
In profile: Peace philanthropy’s pioneers and networks
Andrew Milner profiles some of the pioneering individuals and networks that have led philanthropy for peace-building, including in some cases supporting or initiating negotiations between parties in conflict Pioneers Tegla Loroupe Catherine Mwendwa of the …
You pays yer money and you takes yer choice!
The Notre Dame fire and the philanthropic response to it have featured a couple of times in these pages recently. The episode has thrown up the question of whether a philanthropy which is effectively sponsored …
Interview: Giuseppe Guzzetti
After an illustrious career in both national and local politics in Italy – he has been both President of the Lombardy region and a member of the Italian parliament – and as President of Fondazione …
Interview: Vijay and Umayal Eswaran
When Vijay Eswaran founded the QI Group of Companies in the 1990s with a number of partners, one of its premises was that some of its profits should fund social initiatives. Later, and with QI grown …
