This year’s Commission of the Status of Women (CSW)’s theme was ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes’. Looking at this as an insider in the funding world as well as an activist, I am appreciative of the imperative value of promoting environmental justice to advance gender equality. In a background paper prepared for CSW66, Bernadette Resurrección …

Over the last decade, funders have embraced a wide range of approaches to maximize the impact of their resources. How can these strategies be applied to eliminating neglected tropical diseases? Collaborative philanthropy – bringing together investors and grantees to work together toward solutions to social, economic, or environmental causes – has become increasingly common as a strategy to pool the resources of individual donors and foundations to apply to large-scale challenges, particularly in global health …

I walked away from the corporate world after a decade of practicing law at a multinational business, and I never looked back. I dove into the philanthropic space with curiosity, passion, and a thirst to learn all I could in this new space. But with time I have recognized the value of looking back. I’ve noted the differences and the similarities between the corporate and philanthropic sectors. Some things are better, but some things are …

In response to recent exchanges in Alliance magazine about the nature and efficacy of trust based philanthropy, we join the founders of the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project in encouraging all funders to ‘look beyond the headlines and do a deeper study’. Covid-19 has been a wake-up call on funding practice. Its key challenges to funders – relieving pressure on charities; freeing them to respond flexibly to the evolving needs of the communities and causes they serve; …