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Bold vision is needed to change a system, so is collaboration and trust
If there is one word that sums up what we need right now, it is connection. This need has united us through Covid – the lockdowns, isolation, quarantines, and loss. But this pandemic, for all …
Balancing today with tomorrow
When Covid first hit, foundations were generous in putting out more money fast to help charities respond. But as another wave washes over Europe, it’s clear this crisis is nowhere near past us. We are …
We must develop talent and leadership to meet the challenges of the post-Covid world
Despite our teachers going above and beyond the call of duty to keep the world’s children learning, the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the deep educational inequalities that exist across the world during 2020. According …
Collective responses to gendered impacts of the pandemic: A case from Turkey
The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the current social problems and intensified inequalities, all across the world. As in every crisis, some groups experience the effects of the pandemic more intensely. Women and girls come at …
New report analyses Indigenous community leadership in response to Covid-19
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe in Indigenous communities, and in the face of these significant challenges, tribal communities have mobilised and leveraged resources to mitigate hardship. A new report from the …
Governments cannot squander lessons of Covid-19 in working with civil society
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed many flaws in government policies and relationships around the world, from the underfunding of health services to public mistrust of official advice. But in our sector, one of the most …
$27 million bond will help women in Asia rebuild livelihoods post-Covid
The Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) has issued a $27 million bond to support creating sustainable livelihoods for more than three million women in developing countries. The bond is called the Women’s Livelihood Bond 3 …
Cambridge CSP research looks at the philanthropy power balance after Covid
Covid-19 is accelerating an already exist trend: the awakening of institutional philanthropy in the global south. Yet research released today from University of Cambridge’s Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at Judge Business School suggests this awakening …
Open Society Foundations urge reset of global health funding
Health philanthropy leaders at the Open Society Foundations have called for a change of direction in global health funding which they say too often favours ‘private interests over public provision’. The Open Society Foundations’ Julia …
Covid-19, statelessness and the power of a ‘consortium’ approach to funding
What do you think when you hear that someone is stateless? That they are some kind of free-floating personality that lives without borders? That they are a citizen of the universe? If only. The reality …
