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Martyn Evans

Opinion Martyn Evans 5 September 2014

From welfare state to enabling state: what role for foundations?

Most of us have benefited enormously from the models of welfare state that emerged after 1945 and are much healthier, wealthier and better educated as a result. Even pre-2007 however, outcomes for a significant minority …

Conference reports Martyn Evans 27 June 2014

Feeling good or doing good? Reflections from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation conference

The danger with asserting that you occupy the moral high ground (which some foundations have implied they do and some staff act as if they do) is that you become intensely vulnerable to the shout …