‘Diversity, equity, and inclusion in grantmaking’ at the Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum 2023 The 2023 Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum (PBC 2023), convened on 11-12 September by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, was the first international trip after the pandemic for many philanthropy stakeholders, including over 130 participants from mainland China. The Forum served as a critical hub where western and eastern philanthropies could converge, interact and incubate new ideas, drawing inspiration …

Set up in 1943 and currently occupied by nearly 10,000 Palestinian refugees, the Shatila refugee camp in South Beirut displays a telling piece of wall art. It merges the Aboriginal and Palestinian flags with a single clenched fist and reads: ‘From our Nakba to your Invasion Day, we are one in struggle’.  This struggle is decolonisation. In the most simplistic terms, decolonisation involves undoing colonialism’s continued legacy. This may mean returning stolen land, or challenging …

A little boy playing at Flup (Literary Festival of Peripheries), held in Rio. One began on Saturday, October 7, and ran until Wednesday, October 11. Another began the very next day, on the holiday of October 12. The first, in São Paulo, in the Bela Vista neighborhood, or rather in good old Bixiga, in the most traditional elite business school in the country and right next to the Quilombo do Saracura and all the stories …

ISTR’s Latin America and Caribbean Regional Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil was another great ISTR event among third sector researchers and practitioners. As editor of ISTR’s official journal Voluntas (with my colleagues Fredrik O. Andersson and Galia Chimiak), I want to express my enthusiasm for the research I saw presented at the conference. From questioning the definitions and terms used in our field, to continued attention to the influence of populism as well as thinking about how …