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Wicked solutions to wicked problems
More than ever, foundations seeking a global impact are being called upon to fund solutions to the problems of the world – poverty, climate change, clean drinking water, failing education systems and more. What more …
Up for Grabs: addressing the impacts of land grabbing on women
Land grabbing threatens women’s rights across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Two grassroots activists, two grantmakers and a well-known research organization shared their strategies for tackling this injustice at all levels. On 25 January, Global …
Food (and drink) for thought (and action) at Environmental Funders Network retreat
An Englishman, a Frenchman, and an American woman went into a bar. Now, this may sound like the start of a terrible British joke, but it instead it begins the inspiring tale of the many …
Bellagio offers fresh thinking on collaboration and effectiveness
The Bellagio Summit continued its third module on 18 and 19 November, this time under the title of ‘Future frameworks for development and philanthropic collaboration’. Speakers in the opening plenary offered a range of views …
Donors come together for new ‘Girls Not Brides’ campaign − will European foundations join?
In the developing world, one in three girls is married before the age of 18, one in seven before she is 15. Yet each year a girl stays in school, it boosts her future income …
SOCAP Europe gets down to business
On 30 May 2011, the inaugural conference of SOCAP Europe took place in Amsterdam, at the site of the world’s first stock market at Beurs van Berlage. Over 650 individuals from the social investment world, …
CAN experience suggests providing shared office space for non-profits a good MRI strategy for funders
In the difficult times since the financial crisis struck, there has been much talk of non-profits collaborating, even merging – and suggestions that funders should be supporting them in this process. A press release (see …
