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Charles Keidan

Editorial Charles Keidan 5 March 2024

Welcome to the March 2024 issue of Alliance

Welcome to this new – and new look – issue of Alliance magazine This issue includes a special feature on leadership in philanthropy. Too often, our focus in popular depictions is on the lifestyles of …

Editorial Charles Keidan 5 March 2024 For Subscribers

Critical Friend: Where is philanthropy as we sleepwalk into conflict?

Few would disagree that the loss of almost 30,000 Palestinian lives in Gaza (at the time of writing) and the massacre of 1,200 people in Israel on 7 October 2023 are moral failings of huge …

Editorial Charles Keidan 28 February 2024 For Subscribers

Why philanthropists should steer clear of Oxford University

A court has ruled that Oxford University put staff on sham contracts; so why should philanthropists donate to the university until it gets its house in order? It was once observed that our world’s leading universities – …

Editorial 1 Charles Keidan 31 January 2024 For Subscribers

The Economist’s philanthrocapitalism is still the predominant narrative

Earlier this month, the publication which spawned and celebrated the birth of philanthrocapitalism in the heady days of 2006 has just renounced it eighteen years later. What took them so long? The crossing of the …

Interview Charles Keidan 5 December 2023 For Subscribers

Maverick Collective’s Rena Greifinger on gender equity and changing the status quo

A women’s funding initiative is about more than funding causes which others won’t. It’s about a different way of seeing women in philanthropy. Rena Greifinger, managing director of Maverick Collective, and director for Philanthropy at …

Editorial Charles Keidan 5 December 2023

Should philanthropy be more political?

The question may seem irrelevant. Many jurisdictions proscribe partisan or party-political activity and legal rulings in the UK, Germany, and elsewhere in recent years have sought to clarify the boundaries of charitable purpose and activity.   …

News Shafi Musaddique and Charles Keidan 10 November 2023

Major philanthropic institutions urge governments to ‘stop enabling war crimes’ in Gaza open letter 

Dozens of major funders and funding bodies including the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) – a membership organisation which includes some of the largest US and European foundations as dues paying members – have called …

News Charles Keidan 9 November 2023

Tarsadia Foundation wins Catalyst 2030 award for trust based philanthropy

California-based Tarsadia Foundation, and its CEO Maya Patel, received recognition for a distinct approach to philanthropy at an awards ceremony in central London on 8 November. The Catalyst 2030 Awards, which recognise efforts across the …

Editorial 3 Charles Keidan 16 October 2023

Philanthropy is missing in action – again – on Israel/Palestine

What should philanthropy be doing in the face of distressing scenes from Israel and Gaza? That’s the question many are asking. Yet the philanthropic world seems eerily silent, paralysed by inaction. I can relate. After …

Editorial Charles Keidan and Elika Roohi 26 September 2023

We will never take our readers’ trust for granted

At the start of this year, Alliance magazine announced plans to conduct its first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) audit. Our stated aim has been ‘to better understand how to further our mission to provide …