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Do you know?

Larry McGill 13 November 2013

Raise your hand if you know the answer to the following question: How many grant dollars did US foundations award in 2011? Anyone? Let me ask a different question. If you needed to find the …

Paradox or creative tension? The role of foundations in delivering public benefit

Charles Keidan 14 October 2013

The opening plenary set the bar high for this year’s Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) conference. The session featured stirring, insightful and complementary contributions on the changing role of foundations from Theo Sowa, Julian Corner …

Philanthropication thru Privatization: A way to build charitable assets?

1 Lester Salamon 1 October 2013

I had the good fortune to be called out by name a week and a half ago by celebrated Economist columnist Matthew Bishop for having put together his ‘dream conference’ combining his ‘two favourite themes: …

Strategic philanthropy is all about power and control, says Pablo Eisenberg

2 Caroline Hartnell 10 September 2013

Over the summer there has been much debate on ‘strategic philanthropy’ and whether it’s a good thing, with the Hudson Institute’s Bill Schambra airing his doubts and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s former and …

French foundations make social investment fact-finding visit to the UK

3 Gaspard Verdier 3 September 2013

A delegation of 17 French foundations professionals – all members of the French Foundations Centre (Centre Français des Fonds et Fondations – CFF) – spent three days in London this summer to review the social …

Gerry Salole said a good reason to set up a foundation is guilt – or did he?

Caroline Hartnell 30 August 2013

At a recent meeting European Foundation Centre CEO Gerry Salole was asked why people set up foundations. He gave a characteristically balanced answer. There are a variety of possible reasons: for some it’s a matter …

Interview with Dr Jim Yong Kim published on Alliance website

Alliance magazine 4 July 2013

The relationship between foundations and the World Bank Group has not always been easy. In recent years, however, a new spirit of collaboration has become apparent. The Bank really does want to work with foundations, …

On the edge of the abyss, what can foundations do?

Caroline Hartnell 11 June 2013

The official title of the recent EFC conference, held in Copenhagen 30 May to 1 June, was ‘Sustainable Cities: Foundations and Our Urban Future’. Any conference focused on sustainability and our future, urban or otherwise, …

Where do foundations fit within the ‘Development Galaxy’?

Bathylle Missika 27 May 2013

Where do foundations fit within the ‘Development Galaxy’? This was the question addressed by Michael Green (co-author of Philanthrocapitalism: How giving can save the world) in his keynote speech to the April plenary meeting of …

The growing question mark behind the institution of the foundation

Michael Alberg-Seberich 21 May 2013

One of the stunning phenomena of our networked world is that certain public debates seem to travel the planet with great speed. Last weekend the German Sunday weekly Welt am Sonntag published an article called …