Author Archive:
Carolyn Hayman
Local First: The ‘soft franchise’ approach
There’s a new phenomenon in philanthropy that would hardly have been recognized 15 years ago: the belief that the best way to support development is to find what works and then roll it out big …
Who are the real risk takers?
Recent articles in Alliance, including Adrian Sargeant and Rob Garris’s ‘Balancing risk and opportunity’ in the September issue, raise the question: who are the real risk takers in philanthropy – the people who are prepared …
In support of John Sommer
I very much enjoyed John Sommer’s article about building organizations rather than funding projects. This is very much the approach that we take at Peace Direct – finding small local organizations in the field of …
