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Stewarding wealth for the common good: how an Asian family office incorporated climate change mitigation into its portfolio
‘From an Asian perspective, climate change is not a distant threat – it is happening today. I want to make sure that the way my capital is invested is part of the solution and not …
Feeling the pressures of a limited life
Leadership changes, strategic reviews, the closing of some programs and a fresh emphasis on others — all these are part of the normal cycle at just about any foundation. They may feel momentous at the …
How the Gates Foundation reviews its strategies
At the Gates Foundation, the first three months of every year is the ‘strategy review’ season. We have almost 30 different strategic teams working across our Global Health, Global Development, Global Policy and Advocacy/Communications and US …
Philanthropy as acupuncture: it’s all about where you put the needle
‘Philanthropy is like acupuncture,’ declared Hakan Altinay, senior fellow for global economy and development at the Brookings Institution, during the Salzburg Global Seminar session on ‘Philanthropy in Times of Crisis and Transition: Catalyzing Forces of …
Exiting and moving on needs excellence, but it isn’t rocket science
GrantCraft recently started work on a new project, an inquiry into how funders end programs, break off funding relationships and partnerships, leave program areas or countries or – in some cases – deliberately spend themselves …
Foundations that break the rules
The other day the founder of an innovative medical research foundation described how they had received an important early grant from a very large and well-reputed foundation. He confided that: ‘They had to break their …
Non-profit performance evaluation: strategy (part 5 of 6)
Recently a financial advisor asked: what has surprised you the most when evaluating charities? I did not have to think long about the answer. It’s an outstanding juxtaposition: I constantly find good intentions and big …
