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Charles Keidan
Changing the funding model is a necessity: Hilary Pennington, Ford Foundation
Hilary Pennington of the Ford Foundation talks international development and turning the tables There is growing consensus that the system of international development is broken. But how to fix it is less certain. A report …
Rawa’s Soheir Asaad on navigating the path for community philanthropy in Palestine
Soheir Asaad is Director of Advocacy at Rawa, a Palestinian grassroots community fund using community-led participatory grantmaking across Palestine. Since 2018, over 60 grants have been awarded to grassroots community-based initiatives. Alliance digital editor, Charlotte …
Five percent or more
Foundations everywhere should donate at least five percent of their assets each year. That shouldn’t be controversial The social contract between society and its key institutions is fraying. In an ideal world, philanthropic institutions – …
Australian philanthropy: three things to know about a landmark report
It may seem like the ultimate insider topic, but thanks to a new Australian report, debates about how philanthropy is regulated just got interesting. Most policy chat in recent years has focused on the US. …
Philanthropy in the Global South is coming of age. Can it fulfil its potential?
Philanthropy across the ‘Global South’ – an elusive shorthand for developing economy countries and regions – is booming. New ‘south-south’ partnerships are being forged, new academic centres are research and teaching about philanthropy in ‘emerging …
Melinda French Gates: Four things to note as she starts a new chapter
Much has been written about Melinda French Gates and what she calls her ‘new chapter’ – her philanthropic plans following her separation from Bill Gates and subsequent departure from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation …
Welcome to the June 2024 issue of Alliance
Like motherhood and apple pie, who would not be in favour of pursuing the common good? But what exactly is the common good? And do those of us working in philanthropy have a special responsibility …
Social justice and philanthropy – still an uneasy relationship
Is there really such a thing as social justice philanthropy? That’s one of the big philosophical questions facing our field. It’s one which those of us working in philanthropy will have reflected on, at least …
Tribunal: Is philanthropy political?
This question was put to a tribunal of foundation CEOs during the European Academy of Strategic Philanthropy organised by Fondation de France and the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy at the Centre des Pensières on the …
CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation explains its unique model of education philanthropy
Sonia Ben Jaafar is CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation, one of the largest privately funded philanthropic education initiatives in the Arab world. Prior to that, she was the Managing Director of EduEval, a …