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Intersectional environmentalism: How foundations simultaneously address race and climate

4 April 2022
Jake Safane

Conserving natural spaces. Cleaning up waterways. Reducing the use of fossil fuels. At first glance, all of these areas may …

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An unexpected impact from Russia’s Ukraine offensive? Philanthropy’s football moment

4 March 2022
Charles Keidan

News from the football world spilled over into philanthropy last week when Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich announced that ‘stewardship and …

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Philanthropy with Chinese characteristics: through the lens of health

24 February 2022
Ruth Shapiro and Vincent Cheng

China is rapidly becoming one of the most philanthropic nations in the world. While it is impossible to know with …

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Zimbabwe philanthropists urged to invest more in resilience to severe droughts

22 February 2022
Andrew Mambondiyani

Over the past two decades, rain-fed agriculture has increasingly become unattainable in Zimbabwe as frequent and severe droughts continue to …

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Are funders overlooking incarcerated women and girls?

7 February 2022
Sabrina Mahtani

Over one million women are controlled by the criminal justice system and over 741,000 women are in prison worldwide. Globally, …

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What’s ahead? Predictions for philanthropy in 2022 and beyond

25 January 2022
Rhodri Davies

It feels, right now, as if the only real certainty is uncertainty. But this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to …

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Data and insight-driven global philanthropy has never been more important

6 January 2022
Ted Hart

As we approach the end of 2021 and the two-year anniversary of the first Covid-19 lockdowns, it’s difficult not to …

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Neo-colonial philanthropy in the UK

23 December 2021
Fozia Irfan

Philanthropic foundations are at a critical crossroads, facing greater scrutiny and questions in relation to how they are addressing racial …

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Foundation Practice Rating: early analysis on diversity, transparency, communication

3 December 2021
Jake Furby and Sylvia McLain

The Foundation Practice Rating has launched! Following the July 2021 article in Alliance, the initiative to research and rate UK …

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Time for Nigeria’s ultra-wealthy to get behind climate change philanthropy

29 November 2021
Adetokunbo Abiola

Nigeria ranks as the fifty-eighth most vulnerable and the twenty-second least ready nation to adapt to the threats of climate …

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Demanding healthy, sustainable and just food environments

18 November 2021
Chris Gee

How could our food system transform to maximise planetary, human, and animal wellbeing? The problem. Our food system is incompatible …

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Fighting factory farming with new approaches to producing and using research

10 November 2021
Caroline Fiennes

Moving to a sustainable and fair food system is a giant challenge, and the organisations driving it are small compared …