Indiana’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has launched a professional doctorate in philanthropic leadership – the first degree of its kind. Most people interested in philanthropy are ‘doers,’ seeking to make a meaningful social contribution. But what they can accomplish depends on what they know, so there is an understandable thirst for practical knowledge that will survive the journey from anecdote to best practice, and then to a general principle that can be thoughtfully applied …

Let’s start with a plain statement: the systems, orthodoxies and assumptions of neoliberal capitalism have failed. Arguably, this has been clear for decades to those who cared enough to look. But at this point, even those still wedded to the empty promises of the ‘free’ market are finding it increasingly hard to avoid the inevitable conclusion. We have entered a period of violent collapse that is so clear, so devastating to the lives, hopes and …

In the wake of our collective global reckoning with racial and economic justice two years ago, Alliance magazine asked how philanthropy can best support social movements to win change. But two years on – we face yet another critical juncture. Prices and temperatures are rising, destroying lives in the present and threatening our future. In this moment of urgency, philanthropy is once again wondering how to respond.  For as long as we’ve been asking this …

As millions of Ukrainian women and children are forced to flee their homes in hopes of surviving Russia’s war, they face another significant threat: men seeking to buy sex and the dangers of getting lured into the commercial sex trade and human trafficking. The Associated Press has reported that in Poland’s refugee camps, while Polish men have offered to ‘help’ women and children, arrests have been made for the rape of a 19-year-old refugee in …