Author Archive:
Caroline Hartnell
Interview with Ellen Dorsey of the Wallace Global Fund
The Wallace Global Fund has been spearheading the burgeoning divest-invest philanthropy movement, which encourages foundations to divest from fossil fuels assets and invest instead in renewables. Executive director Ellen Dorsey is more optimistic than she …
Interview with Sergio Urbani of the Cariplo Foundation
The untimely death of Pier Mario Vello has brought Sergio Urbani to the head of Italy’s Cariplo Foundation. While he has no intention of trying to fill the very considerable shoes of his illustrious predecessor, …
From best practice to common practice: interview with Kathy Reich
Early in 2014, seven foundations came together to create the Fund for Shared Insight. Nine months later, the fund has awarded its first grants – remarkable progress considering the pace at which philanthropic collaboration usually …
The politics of measurement: interview with Jay Naidoo
As social justice campaigner, trade unionist, government minister – Jay Naidoo has seen most sides of the development process. What’s the main lesson he’s learned from all this experience? That the whole process is based …
Interview with Michael Feigelson
‘I would like to have a few examples where we have really seen an impact at scale.’ Michael Feigelson is the new executive director of the Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF), but he’s not new …
Growing pains: foundation accountability in emerging economies
Where economies are ‘emerging’, the foundation sector often is, too. In many emerging economies, foundations are making increasingly substantial contributions to society, especially in areas that are less popular with government and individual donors such …
Goodbye, Alliance!
It hardly seems possible that, after 16 amazing years, my time with Alliance is almost at an end. Paula Park, my successor, takes up her post on 1 June, and we will work together to …
EFC conference 2015: a growing sense of urgency in a critical year
A sense of urgency ran through the opening plenary of the 26th European Foundation Centre (EFC) annual conference, held in Milan last week (20-22 May). ‘Can we afford the luxury of the long view?’ asked …
EFC conference 2015: what role for community philanthropy in disasters and emergencies?
Tewa, a women’s fund in Nepal, found itself on the front line when the recent massive earthquakes hit the country, said Jenny Hodgson, executive director of the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF). Her main …
EFC opening plenary: do we have the luxury of the long view?
It was fitting that in a session that began with the award of the EFC’s Compass Prize to the late Pier Mario Vello, recognized as an outstanding visionary and thinker in the philanthropy field, the …
