Cards on the table. I lead a European network of NGOs advocating for children’s rights in Europe. We are cash strapped. Although fortunate to be core funded from the European Commission, our ambitions exceed our resources. And the strings attached to our funding tie our activities to our funders needs, not necessarily those of our members. Being part of this year’s European Foundation Centre’s conference in Vienna was therefore an important opportunity to take the …

During the Conference, I was looking for society, democracy, climate and philanthropy tracks in arts and culture.   The discursive part of the Conference program was arranged around four tracks: society, democracy, philanthropy, and climate. While arts & culture were not represented in any of the sessions specifically, some of the sessions included the voices from the field.  The multidimensional nature of arts and culture and their ability to mesh into different discourses and take …

The Wien Conference has been my third EFC Conference, after Warsaw and Paris. Everything has changed in these years. I have changed, after 10 years working in Calala Women’s Fund, I’m starting to feel more comfortable in places like this. The EFC has changed, it is about to disappear to merge with Dafne into a new entity. The world has changed. This is the first conference of the philanthropic sector after the pandemic. Has it …

Last week, The EFC held their 2021 Annual Conference, and Alliance asked its readers what session they would like to hear about most in a poll. The winner was ‘Philanthropy’s new normal’ in the Philanthropy track – take a look at our conference report below. One of the most enjoyable aspects of this year’s EFC Conference was how well the four tracks – Climate, Democracy, Philanthropy and Society – were interwoven throughout. I jumped around …