Author Archive:
Andrew Milner
Interview: Belinda Tanoto of the Tanoto Foundation
While Indonesia regularly tops the rankings for individual giving, private endowed foundations are comparatively rare. The Tanoto Foundation is one such. Belinda Tanoto, daughter of the founder and a member of the foundation’s Board of …
Look Up – Look North: Stepping up on ESG. Igniting the potential
In their annual conference in Copenhagen in November, the Nordic foundations grappled with the notion of ESG and what it means for their donations, their investments and their footprints. The grouping of the three may …
The end of condescension: the central issues around decolonising philanthropy
Features editor Andrew Milner outlines some of the central issues that need addressing for ‘decolonising philanthropy’ to have real meaning The word ‘decolonisation’ was apparently first coined by German economist Moritz Julius Bonn in the …
Tales of dynamism and diversity: Reflections on the AVPN 2022 conference
Andrew Milner reflects on the debate at the heart of the AVPN 2022 conference that he recently attended in Bali The Asian decade: it was on the AVPN’s 2022 conference masthead, it was proclaimed from …
Interview: Indonesia’s YCAB Foundation on impact and the future of Asian giving
The YCAB Foundation has been a critical part of the philanthropy and social investment landscape in Indonesia for the last two decades. At the recent AVPN Conference in Bali, Alliance spoke to Veronica Colondam, YCAB’s …
Interview: Rockefeller Foundation’s Elizabeth Yee on Asia, leadership, and philanthropy
Rockefeller Foundation has deep and long-standing interests in Asia. Hence the presence of Elizabeth Yee, the foundation’s Executive Vice President, Program Strategy and Chief of Staff at the AVPN Conference in Bali. She talks here …
The Asian decade
This was the billing of AVPN’s first face-to-face convening since 2019 and with the return of the conference has come a new purpose and of responsibility, articulated by Naina Batra in her opening address to …
Last Word: Learning from failure is a profitable pursuit
Failures: in a spirit of openness, let me advance one of my own. Long ago, I was entered in an elocution competition, in which the competitors, all children too young to be able to say …
Network bodies: alive and well in the Covid era
Two years on from the first lockdowns, we’ve all had to get used to not meeting our peers in person. Andrew Milner investigates the effect this has had on network bodies and how these gregarious …
Watchwords and catchwords
A sideways glance at the evolution of the language of philanthropy over the last two-and-a-half decades As the practice of philanthropy has changed over the last 25 years, so has the language it uses to …
