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Opinion

Rebuilding the Palestinian healthcare system will take decades

17 September 2024
Harriet Scott

At Medical Aid for Palestinians, we sadly have a long history of responding to emergency situations in Gaza, the West …

Opinion

On resources, space, and priorities for philanthropy in Palestine

17 September 2024
Najwa Al-Qattan

Being Palestinian has been complicated for over a century. Today, and in the context of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza …

Opinion

Living Wage funders are stepping up to end in-work poverty. It’s working

12 September 2024
Lianna Etkind

Nearly a decade ago, a group of funders met to discuss tackling in-work poverty in the charity sector. They were …

Opinion

Passive ‘donor-pleaser’ or ‘resource activist’? The role that fundraisers can play in creating a fairer funding system

9 September 2024
Sabina Basi

ADD International recently finalised its fourth strategic partnership; bringing the total amount of unrestricted funding for Mtiririko; our new strategy …

Opinion

Facing the inner crisis in philanthropy

9 September 2024
Chandrika Sahai

Philanthropy has a blind spot. According to Otto Scharmer (Theory U), it concerns our ‘inner place – the source from …

Opinion

As fascism spreads, philanthropy urgently needs to support digital justice

8 September 2024
Laurence Meyer

Anti-rights and fascist parties and politics continue to take hold across Europe, with a rise in violence against already marginalised …

Opinion

Philanthropy is failing young people because it doesn’t get tech 

4 September 2024
Tris Lumley

Young people today are caught in the crossfire of powerful societal forces driven by technology. Infusing their daily lives, its …

Opinion

How philanthropy is empowering women in the Global South to tackle climate and reproductive health challenges

2 September 2024
Rose Ng’ang’a

In the face of a rapidly changing climate, the intersection between reproductive health and environmental sustainability has become increasingly apparent. …

Opinion

Rhetoric vs. reality of progressive trends in global philanthropy

30 August 2024
Nick Scott

The trust-based philanthropy movement is becoming ever more prominent in the discourse about charitable sector funding practices. The Bridgespan Group …

Opinion

How WINGS’ G20 advocacy speaks to governments

27 August 2024
Sameera Mehra and Casey Kelso

As the world continues to face the polycrisis – war, conflict, climate crisis, inequality, inequity and much more – all …

Opinion

Funding democracy: By taxes or by philanthropy?

26 August 2024
Jan Colruyt

If my children inherit from me here in Switzerland it will be tax-free. If I buy myself an expensive SUV, …

Opinion

‘Meu tempo é agora’: Funding trans rights in times of de-democratisation

23 August 2024
Maria Clara Araújo

At the Global Trans Conference in Munich in July, trans and gender-diverse movements addressed their essential roles in fighting democratic …