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Alliance magazine: An interview with Firoz Ladak, Executive Director of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations.

Alliance magazine 4 February 2013

“It was time to professionalize the charity activities and consider how to consolidate this cluster of foundations that did not necessarily interlink with one another apart from the fact that they were all presided over …

Strategic family philanthropy – an oxymoron?

1 Ellen Remmer and The Philanthropic Initiative 1 February 2013

I have a confession. I’m a prosetelyzer and I’m an evangelist… for strategic family philanthropy. I caught the bug when my own family discovered the joys of working together on our family foundation, and it’s become …

It’s the journey, not the destination: a reflection on Ellen Remmer’s ‘Off the beaten path’

1 Filiz Bikmen 12 April 2012

In her recent post, Ellen Remmer refers to a number of factors such as role models, time and safe spaces, continuous learning and reflection to help ‘catalyse’ donors. Looking at this list from the perspective …

Strategic philanthropy ‒ one funder’s journey

Adrian Fradd 4 April 2012

What is an effective funder and how do you become one? This is one of the questions I get asked the most. But, unfortunately, it is also one of the hardest. Although it’s easy to …

Giving for sustainable change in the Pacific Northwest

Strategic Philanthropy 12 April 2011

‘Giving for Sustainable Change’, held on 1 and 2 April in Seattle, Washington, USA, was the second gathering of a new community of global donors – Pacific Northwest Global Donors. The conference was attended by …

Responding to natural disasters: as the unexpected becomes more common

Strategic Philanthropy 7 February 2011

In the midst of the media coverage exploring different angles of the situation in Haiti one year after the earthquake, there has also been coverage of recent natural disasters including the floods in Brazil and …

What will philanthropy look like in 2011? Taking stock and looking forward

Strategic Philanthropy 7 December 2010

  As we come to the close of 2010, many of us are reviewing the latest studies and surveys to better understand what philanthropy will look like in 2011. Though most publications agree that the …

We should all know how to interact with the media

Strategic Philanthropy 9 September 2010

Part of my job is to routinely scan publications to keep up with the news from our sector.  In the past few months there has been a good deal of coverage of stories such as …