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Occupy Wall Street

Values, not endowments, enable philanthropy across generations

Filiz Bikmen 12 January 2012

I quite agree with what Michael Edwards said about the Occupy movement in a recent interview with Philanthropy News Digest: ‘That’s what social movements do. They may not have a direct impact on policy in …


A Q&A with Michael Edwards, author of Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World (Part 2)

Foundation Center 6 January 2012

In November, PND spoke with Michael Edwards, author of the 2010 book Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World, which offered a sharp critique of the philanthrocapitalist worldview. In part two of our interview, …


Occupy Philanthropy

Chet Tchozewski 19 December 2011

‘The arch of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.’ Martin Luther King In my last blog for Alliance I mentioned that organized philanthropy seldom effectively supports social movements because it doesn’t …

The growing role of NGOs in democracies

Elaine Smith and Instituto Geracao 16 December 2011

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 …

Further thoughts on the Bellagio Summit

Barry Smith 16 November 2011

The first module of the Bellagio Summit on ‘The Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Well-Being’ concluded on Friday 11 November . Convened by the Resource Alliance in partnership with the Institute of …

The elephant in philanthropy’s room

1 Vanessa Meachen and Philanthropy Australia 11 November 2011

Caroline Hartnell’s post of 14 October, Do we really want to entrust our futures to a growing group of benevolent dictators? Just asking… struck a real chord for me, particularly given the context of what’s …

Funding unexpected political opportunity – Occupy Wall Street

3 Chet Tchozewski 31 October 2011

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has captured the imagination of the world, or at least the part of the world that’s online or in lower Manhattan. As a social change movement OWS is as …