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Simon Hungin
Emirati fund announces new grants to tackle refugee skills gap and unemployment
The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund has recently announced its fifth round of grants in response to the increasing educational barriers that vulnerable and refugee youth currently face within Jordan, Lebanon and conflict-affected …
Asian Youth Wellbeing Fund announced by AVPN
The $3 million fund announced at the AVPN Global Conference 2023 is the first philanthropic pooled fund that focuses on youth mental wellbeing across Southeast Asia and South Asia, with AVPN being supported by Yayasan …
Dr Nathalie von Siemens new President of Siemens Stiftung, as foundation announces new topic areas
Having occupied the role of Deputy President since 2020, Dr Nathalie von Siemens has now succeeded Berthold Huber, who held the position since 2014, as the President of the Board of Trustees of Siemens Stiftung. …
AVPN Constellations Awards laureates 2023
The 2023 iteration of AVPN’s Constellations Awards focuses on collaborations that advance gender equality in Asia. With huge gaps still existing within the sector, strong, deliberate, and proactive collaborative action is required in order to …
Eight Asia gender equality fund recipients announced
On 20 June 2023, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) announced the selection of eight non-profit organisations (NPOs) across South Asia, South East Asia, and North East Asia, to receive funding as part of the highly-anticipated …
New initiative launched to improve grantmaking
Funding for Real Change (FRC) is a new initiative to provide resources to reimagine giving and ‘normalise good grantmaking practices’ in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. A joint effort by Ariadne and EDGE Funders …
George Soros hands over control of family’s philanthropic empire to son Alexander
The 92-year-old former hedge fund manager George Soros, who in recent times has been a leading philanthropist and contributor to liberal causes, has transferred leadership of Open Society Foundations (OSF) to his son Alexander. OSF …
2023 Philea Forum challenges and inspires philanthropic community
With the window of opportunity narrowing to deal with a multitude of problems in both Europe and the world as a whole, the 2023 Philea Forum provided a critical opportunity for nearly 700 philanthropy and …
Philea release study into European philanthropic funding in the field of arts and culture
The recently released report which is the second volume of its study revealed a philanthropic sector that is strongly committed to resourcing artistic and cultural organisations to strengthen their resilience; has a cross-cutting and intersectional …
Most comprehensive ever report on European environmental philanthropy launched by Philea
On 22 May 2023, Philea published the sixth edition of its Environmental Funding by European Foundations report, the most comprehensive of its kind, which covers topics ranging from thematic focus of environmental grantmaking, to geographical …
