Author Archive:
Andrew Milner
Pushing the needle on what communities need: Neera Nundy, DASRA
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 and the benefits they bring to the sector. Over …
Giving vehicles and tools: What’s new?
Identifying the ‘new’ is not as straightforward as it may first appear… According to Ecclesiastes (1:9), there is nothing new under the sun. Pliny the Elder, by contrast, believed that out of Africa, there is …
We engage, we learn, we share: Benjamin Bellegy, WINGS
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 and the benefits they bring to the sector. Over …
Revolt or revolution?
The practicalities of change can be just as complex as the principles they are built on When I first took the job of Alliance features editor, my biggest anxiety was that there would not be …
E, S… oh, and G, too: the confusion of ESG
ESG is increasingly acknowledged as a must-have pursuit for philanthropic organisations, but its meaning and implementation remains a source of confusion Market Business News calls ESG ‘the three key factors when measuring the sustainability and …
Views from funding’s receiving end
Pressure has been growing on philanthropy to change its practices. We asked a number of recipient organisations what changes they have seen from their funders, how far such changes have gone and what they would …
Jesper Nygård on finding a common ground for philanthropy in the Nordics
Jesper Nygård is CEO of the Danish foundation, Realdania and chair of the Danish Foundation Knowledge Centre. He is also a long-time advocate of collaboration within and between the sectors. At the recent Nordic Foundations …
Leong Cheung on leading one of the world’s largest institutional donors – and still being overlooked
The Hong Kong Jockey Club is little known outside Hong Kong, yet through its philanthropic arm, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, its annual philanthropic expenditure puts it among the world’s top ten institutional …
Doug Miller and Naina Subberwal Batra on IVPC’s future
It’s been a long trek since Doug Miller and four others set up the EVPA and it has taken in the creation of other social investing networks on the way, most recently the International Venture …
When is a crisis a crisis?
Organised philanthropy has a number of changes to make in its response to crisis Swiss cultural historian, Jacob Burckhardt, was very specific: a crisis is a crisis when something is definitively changed as a result …
