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Audacious Philanthropy: How Innovation, Risk, and Partnership Led to Transformational Impact in Education

Amy McGoldrick 14 March 2024

Embracing innovation and partnership – and reshaping how we think about risk-enabled new, unconventional solutions to meet the needs of children and families in nearly impossible contexts. Ahlan Simsim’s funders were careful to ensure that …


Leadership of philanthropy, leadership by philanthropy

Amy McGoldrick 7 March 2024

Philanthropy is grappling with the role it must play in responding to what is called the polycrisis – climate and environmental crises, entrenched economic inequalities, and social injustices. The material role that philanthropy can play …


PEXforum 2024: Where are we in philanthropy infrastructure today?

Alliance magazine 21 February 2024

PEXforum 2024, co-hosted with Acri and Assifero, brought together philanthropy infrastructure professionals from all over Europe. From problem-solving to exploring, from knowing to unlearning, from change-making to change-seeking: how can we embrace the new roles …

Asia Philanthropy Congress 2023

Alliance magazine 9 February 2024

The second Asia Philanthropy Congress in Tokyo explored the current state of diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) in Asia, the benefits of advancing DEI, and the role of the philanthropic sector in this process. The …

The #ShiftThePower Global Summit

Alliance magazine 1 February 2024

The #ShiftThePower Global Summit brought together changemakers and trailblazers from around the world and from across different parts of the international development, philanthropy and civil society systems. A key objective was to create ‘good collisions’ …

Co-creating the Nordic future?

1 Alliance magazine 25 January 2024

In light of the intersecting crises that we face, there has never been a greater need to co-create agendas and work in partnership. How can philanthropy engage with policymakers in addressing climate change, growing social …

2023: A Year in Philanthropy

Eleanor Margolis 23 January 2024

The in-person event took place at The Foundry in London on December 13 2023, and included a panel on how AI and new tech are shaping philanthropy. This was followed by a workshop for in-person …

Politics and philanthropy

Eleanor Margolis 8 January 2024

There is a long-running debate about the relationship between philanthropy and politics. Traditional received wisdom is that philanthropists should steer of politics, but there is a growing view that the two are inseparable and that …

Community philanthropy – reimagining the sector

Eleanor Margolis 1 December 2023

Community philanthropy – people-led and people-centred approaches and models – is becoming all the more relevant against a backdrop of changing funding flows, and increasingly restrictive operating environments for civil society in many parts of …

The ecosystem – and why we can’t do without it

Eleanor Margolis 20 November 2023

Social Impact Infrastructure Organisations (SIIOs) which comprise the philanthropic sector, are as necessary to its existence as our own ecosystem is to our survival as human beings. In spite of this and of the signal …