Author Archive:
Anna Hirsch-Holland
The tensions in philanthropy’s agenda for transformation
As a partnership practitioner and adviser, I’ve been gratified to see that the call for greater collaboration in philanthropy continues to gain momentum. However, this is just one among many different, and equally important rallying …
Partnerships for a sustainable future: Philanthropy’s emerging role in public-private collaboration
The interconnected and urgent challenges the world is facing today are becoming all too familiar: climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, shrinking civic space, inequality, instability – the list goes on. Tackling such complex issues, requires us …
From rhetoric to reality: practicing partnership in philanthropy
The rhetoric on the need for partnership to increase our impact is deafening, but what does it mean in practice? Philanthropists are increasingly recognising that they can only achieve innovation and impact by supporting and …
Trusted partnership: pushing the boundaries of traditional grant-making and trust-based philanthropy
Trust-based philanthropy has been critiqued for emphasizing unrestricted funding to the detriment of ‘criteria- and data-driven’ (thereby ‘unbiased’) funding. Its defenders argue that it is about much more than unrestricted funding, highlighting also the streamlined …
What I learned from philanthropy immersion at Philea Forum 2022
As a relative newbie to the field of philanthropy, Philea Forum has been an opportunity to get to know this quite particular world more intimately – beyond the superficial facts that its people are very …
