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Impact Transformers: How much are corporates committing to social investment?

Claudia Cahalane 16 July 2024

Alliance investments editor Claudia Cahalane meets social investment leaders and innovators at Impact Europe’s Impact Transfomers event, at The Hague from 11-13 of June 2024. On day one of Impact Transformers at the Hague, I find myself …


Sustainability in transition (2): Wilde Ganzen’s match funding model

Brian Pratt 28 August 2014

As discussed in yesterday’s blog, there is a lack of experience in building a sustainable basis for resource mobilization in transitional countries that are leaving aid behind and moving into middle-income status. A recent review …


Sustainability in transition (1): the continuing reliance on external funding

1 Brian Pratt 27 August 2014

The roles and types of donors dominate too much of the current discussion on philanthropy in international development. There are, for example, many debates around the increasing role of private philanthropy or corporate giving versus …

AVPN 2014: Human Capital Intermediaries: The Sustainability Frustration

Patsian Low 21 May 2014

As venture philanthropy evolves, where and how resources can be deployed for the greatest social impact becomes an increasingly complex challenge. It is inevitable that intermediaries will grow alongside this evolution – to serve those …

Spotlight on governance

Gillian Murray 10 December 2012

Governance is an issue that comes up time and time again with both the charities and business members we bring together at Pilotlight. Working as we do with small charities, we see many struggling to …

Getting ready for the sea change: notes from the launch of Impact Economy in North America

Maximilian Martin 25 October 2012

Around the world, ‘impact’ is gradually moving to centre stage. Reported impact investments are up from 1,105 in 2010 to 2,213 in 2011 (see Insight into the Impact Investment Market); the number of impact-oriented funds …

Just Giving Conference celebrates successes of social movements

Daniëlle Hirsch 10 September 2012

Ice-cream, stamping dollar bills to keep corporate money out of the elections and capitalism were just some of the surprises of the first day of the Just Giving Conference, convened by EDGE Funders Alliance – …

Non-profit performance evaluation: financial sustainability (part 3 of 6)

Paul Penley 23 May 2012

High-performing non-profits develop careful strategies for creating consistent revenue to sustain operations. Donors do not want to support an organization one year and see its programs collapse the next year from insufficient funding. Great organizations …

Exciting times for philanthropy in Brazil

Barry Knight 20 April 2012

During the recent GIFE conference in Brazil (26-30 March), someone turned to me and said that the discussions at the conference reminded him of the United States during the 1960s: optimism, energy, openness to doing things …

What happens now the money has run out – the challenge for trusts and foundations in the new economy

John Copps 4 January 2012

It has almost become a cliche to say that we are living in ‘interesting’ times – even though when I hear this said about the charity world it usually means something else. But where it is a …