Alliance magazine’s advice column Philanthropy Confidential has a new secret correspondent for 2022. Writing under the pen name Veritas, our anonymous columnist will take on your trickiest problems and questions and publish the answers exclusively in Alliance. Philanthropy Confidential launched in Alliance in September 2020 as your space to get anonymous advice on the dilemmas and experiences you encounter working in and with the global philanthropy sector. Over the last year and more, secret columnist …

Drawing on voices from across the sector, Lucy Bernholz’s annual industry forecast surveys the landscape of philanthropy and digital civil society to outline the biggest challenges, most pressing questions, and most promising ideas, trends, and solutions in this pivotal moment. This year’s blueprint looks at the impact of converging crises and the deep and wide systemic changes they demand. Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2022 situates the sector and society at large at a …

Even donors that identify as women’s rights or feminist funders aren’t resourcing incarcerated women and girls. That is one of the bleak findings of Forgotten by Funders, a report from the movement-building platform Women Beyond Walls that looks at the challenges of funding programmes to support incarcerated women and girls. The report, which was produced without philanthropic funding, surveyed 34 organisations across 24 countries on five continents. Some of the report’s key findings include: Addressing …

Private philanthropic spending was up almost a quarter in 2020 in India, a report from Dasra and Bain & Company has revealed. Much of this increase has come from family foundations, the report found. In 2020, private giving was $8.7 billion, compared to $7 billion in 2019. Of the $1.8 billion increase, two-thirds were made up of an increase in family philanthropy. Family philanthropy The increase of family philanthropy could be related to the increase …