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Mayor’s Challenge draws a crowd
Mayors of US municipalities have a chance to win up to $5 million for their cities from the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayor’s Challenge, an initiative begun by New York City’s mayor Michael Bloomberg. The prizes have …
A learning journey through the Amazon (part 2 of 2)
Last week, I started to write about a recent trip to Rio Arapiuns in northern Brazil organized by Projeto Saude e Alegria for social investors to learn more about this complex area. Today I will …
A learning journey through the Amazon (part 1 of 2)
‘The dream of Projeto Saude e Alegria is to become needless’. That’s how Caetano Scannavino Filho, general coordinator of Projeto Saude e Alegria (PSA), started his presentation to a group of people that had just spent …
Creating a definition of ‘good’ grassroots grantmaking
On 17 January, Grassroots Grantmakers hosted a webinar entitled ‘Grassroots Grantmaking with an Environmental Lens’ featuring Cheryl King Fischer (executive director, New England Grassroots Environmental Fund) Tim Little (executive director and co-founder, Rose Foundation/Northern California Grassroots …
