We are halfway through what is on track to be another record-breaking year for our climate. The impact of rising greenhouse gas emissions is no longer speculative – the consequences are being felt globally, from Saudi Arabia where, last month, over 500 Hajj pilgrims lost their lives to extreme heat to the U.S. where nearly 100 million Americans were under a heat advisory on the first day of summer.  For a crisis as complex and …

A recent piece in Alliance about fiscal hosting by Jocelyn Ban hit the nail on the head when describing it as an ‘inconspicuous trend’ in philanthropy. As the founder of The Social Change Nest CIC, the UK’s first values based fiscal host, we have watched the sector start to recognise what the US has known for years, that fiscal hosting is a critical piece of not just philanthropic but civil society infrastructure.  The Social Change …

Earlier this month, the controversial Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, which severely restricts civil society in the country, went into effect in Georgia. The law, similar to legislation in Russia that has been used to detain activists and restrict members of the press, requires civil society and media organizations that receive more than 20 percent of their revenue from abroad to register as ‘organizations serving the interests of a foreign power.’ As the law …

Africa, Latin America, and Asia are littered with project signs bearing the logos of international NGOs and for-profit contractors. These often-faded signs are the refuse of a global development system that gives people on the receiving end of aid little say over projects in their communities and countries. Donors have repeatedly pledged to shift power to organizations in the Global South. But it remains unclear whether these promises will marginally increase the money managed by …