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Stars Impact Awards move into funding Latin America
After six years of successfully offering 41 Impact Awards in countries across Africa, the Middle East and Asia/Pacific (not including the 2013 Award recipients, who will be announced in December) Stars Foundation has now opened …
Philanthropy and the Millennium Development Goals
New York has been abuzz this week with the reconvening of the United Nations General Assembly and the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in the streets, cafes and restaurants you can hear people from all …
Development is the democratization of problem-solving: Patrick Awuah and Ashesi University
I wrote yesterday about Salman Khan and the enthusiasm he is generating for work in education by social entrepreneurs and new philanthropists. Sal Khan is an investment analyst by training with an entrepreneurial engineer’s sense …
Philanthropy for global education comes of age
This is the second of three blogs, all inspired by the recent Skoll Forum and Global Philanthropy Forum, which will focus on the growing importance of global education as a philanthropic issue. My first blog, …
Ashoka Mexico launches 25 ‘propositions’ to celebrate quarter century
In order to mark its 25th anniversary, Ashoka Mexico is promoting 25 themes for significant social change in Mexico and Central America and is supporting organizations working towards each of them. The themes include education …
African Grantmakers Network Assembly: What’s new? Now? Different?
At the outset let me say that these blogging notes are my own impressions of key themes emerging from a fantastically rich African Grantmakers Network Assembly experience. I am not aspiring to cover the entire …
Instituto Ayrton Senna wins BNP Paribas philanthropy award
Viviane Senna Da Silva Lalli received the Grand Prix on behalf of the Institute Ayrton Senna, of which she is the founder and president. Established in 1994, the Institute uses funds from her brother’s legacy …
Taking in laundry as a way of improving prospects
Argentine NGO Voluntario Global has launched a project in Buenos Aires that helps train and educate disadvantaged young people through a student-run cooperative. The project Su Lavanderia runs in the Barrio de Soldati area of …
A big win for affirmative action (and philanthropy) in Brazil
On Thursday 26 April, Brazil’s Supreme Court voted 11-0 in favor of affirmative action. As reported by Latin American News Dispatch: ‘The decision reaffirmed a policy adopted by a number of Brazilian universities to institute …
The growing role of NGOs in democracies
Everything started with a government financial crisis and quickly became a movement of reform and request for change. I am not talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement nor any other Occupy somewhere else movement, I …
