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Discussing progress, growth and development
When most of the year is gone, it is easy to look back and try to see what worked and what did not. We keep on trying to evaluate our actions, maybe in order to …
Beer from locally produced crops has businesses seeing double
Brewing companies are finding a way of producing local economic benefits – in addition to the obvious immediate and individual benefits – as well as profits by selling beer in Africa. According to a recent …
Getting up to speed on social entrepreneurship
Not just the Olympics, but all of the fun we’ve had with sports over the vacation makes me think that if we are not prepared for challenges, hurdles and extremes, it is hard to cope …
Recycling to aid a basic yet unaddressed need of underprivileged India
As the retail and apparel industry across the globe gets increasingly inundated with labels, styles and trends, we are becoming, or at least looking, more fashion-forward than ever before. This is even true in India, …
Real participation, real giving, real learning – youth as grantmakers
Due Diligence at its best! Munich in May 2012. The members of a local youthgiving committee are discussing grant applications. The atmosphere on this Friday afternoon is a unique mixture of excitement, fun and seriousness. …
Support infrastructure for social enterprise – persuading the investor to be more entrepreneurial
Re-envisioning capitalism is a constant theme at the moment. As the global economy continues to reel from a financial crisis that seems to have no end in sight, people are starting to question what ‘traditional …
UK’s newly launched Big Society Capital equally welcomed and criticized
UK prime minister David Cameron launched the much-trumpeted Big Society Capital (formerly known as the Big Society Bank) last week amid considerable plaudits and an almost equal amount of criticism. Big Society Capital has £600 …
Social transformation through football? Sporting mega events now on agenda of Brazilian social investors
For the first time in its history, GIFE (Group of Institutes, Foundations and Corporations) included two sessions on sports in the programme of its 2012 Congress – Brazil’s largest conference of grantmakers and social investors …
Grantmaker or grantseeker – where are the boundaries?
‘Blurred boundaries’ is a phrase often used to indicate an erosion of the once-clear line between grantmakers and grantseekers. That demarcation was crystal-clear when I first began working at Philanthropy Australia in the late …
The business of the business of good
Michael Porter, the Harvard business school guru, defined how industries work in his book on competitive strategy. He drew out the relationships between competitive enterprises and their supply chains, infrastructure, distribution channels, and advocacy organizations. …
