Author Archive:
Caroline Hartnell
Interview with Bill Drayton
Bill Drayton founded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public 34 years ago. In the intervening years, the pace of change has accelerated rapidly, producing what he describes as a society based on innovation, rather than repetition. …
Interview with Laurence Lien
The figure of Laurence Lien looms large in the philanthropy landscape of Singapore. In addition to chairing the Lien Foundation, he is also chair of the Community Foundation of Singapore, former CEO of the National …
Prime example of excessive spending on overheads or candidate for greatness: which is the Ford Foundation?
On 11 April David Callahan posted a blog on Inside Philanthropy called Ford Sinks Over $1 Billion a Decade Into Overhead. Is That Money Well Spent? Callahan clearly doesn’t think so. He makes clear that ‘Ford …
Optimism on steroids: reflections on the 12th Skoll World Forum
This will probably be my last Skoll World Forum – in a few months I will step down as editor of Alliance after 16 years – and this set me wondering how the event had …
Interview with Michael Green: ‘economic growth is not the whole story’
The Social Progress Index 2015 is published today by US-based non-profit the Social Progress Imperative. Caroline Hartnell talked to executive director Michael Green about the relationship between social progress, economic growth, inequality and poverty; about the …
Interview with Roshni Nadar
Roshni Nadar Malholtra is the daughter of Indian industrialist and philanthropist Shiv Nadar, founder and chairman of HCL and of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, one of India’s largest private philanthropic organizations. The Foundation practises creative …
Can women save the planet? A new report shows the way
Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) executive director Terry Odendahl believes women will save the planet – but not without equal rights and in concert with men. But we haven’t got much time, so how can we …
Foundations and the SDGs: the ‘conspicuous absentees’ speak out
The philanthropic community has been ‘conspicuously absent from the SDG debate’, according to Kevin Watkins of the UK’s Overseas Development Institute, writing in the March 2015 issue of Alliance. However, as he suggests, the Sustainable …
2015 BNP Paribas philanthropy index shows Europe and USA neck and neck
Philanthropy is growing worldwide, according to the 2015 BNP Paribas Individual Philanthropy Index, increasing by 5 points on average over the last year. On 55.5%, with a strong increase in current and projected giving, Europe …
Art and social justice: which is the higher good?
It’s an old chestnut: should we fund art ‘for its own sake’ or to further some other end? Can we justify philanthropic funding for the arts when there are so many more urgent things to …
