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Eleanor Margolis

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 23 January 2024

2023: A Year in Philanthropy

The in-person event took place at The Foundry in London on December 13 2023, and included a panel on how AI and new tech are shaping philanthropy. This was followed by a workshop for in-person …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 8 January 2024

Politics and philanthropy

There is a long-running debate about the relationship between philanthropy and politics. Traditional received wisdom is that philanthropists should steer of politics, but there is a growing view that the two are inseparable and that …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 1 December 2023

Community philanthropy – reimagining the sector

Community philanthropy – people-led and people-centred approaches and models – is becoming all the more relevant against a backdrop of changing funding flows, and increasingly restrictive operating environments for civil society in many parts of …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 20 November 2023

The ecosystem – and why we can’t do without it

Social Impact Infrastructure Organisations (SIIOs) which comprise the philanthropic sector, are as necessary to its existence as our own ecosystem is to our survival as human beings. In spite of this and of the signal …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 4 October 2023

Localising the SDGs

The Sustainable Development Goals are the international community’s flagship for social, economic and environmental welfare over the next several years; and the focus of the September 2023 issue of Alliance. If the SDGs are to …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 28 September 2023

The Future of Philanthropy

There is a need and opportunity for strategic philanthropy to drive large scale social change. Solving intractable problems requires philanthropy, government and business sectors working effectively together. But philanthropy’s impact is held back by a …

Conference Report Eleanor Margolis 27 July 2023

The next decade of systems change philanthropy

There is growing recognition that effective systems change work requires developing strategies alongside partners in the communities it seeks to serve, rather than instrumentalising them. But how and to what extent are systems change funders …