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The 2018 AVPN Conference, Singapore, 4-7 June 2018
The social and environmental problems we’re facing will require far more resources than we have so far put into them. As a rough indicator, estimates of money to meet the Sustainable Development Goals are eye-watering. …
Philanthropy infrastructure under the microscope
Why won’t foundations pay more, or in some cases, pay anything, for the infrastructure which exists to help and serve them? And what can be done to change that? That was the core challenge debated …
Recent convenings debate non-profit journalism
Over the last six months, I’ve participated in two panels on non-profit journalism and philanthropy. I see non-profit journalism as a response to two related crises. The first is the proliferation of news outlets on the …
Social investment in Asia: philanthropy’s new venture
‘How many people here don’t have their smartphone within easy reach?’ asked Ong Peng Tsin, Chair of Solve Education in the opening plenary of this year’s Asia Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) conference in Bangkok, 7-9 …
Coverage from the 2017 annual EFC conference in Warsaw, Poland
Alliance is proud to have been part of the media coverage for this year’s European Foundation Centre (EFC) conference in Warsaw, Poland. This year’s EFC annual conference, hosted between 31 May – 2nd June, was …
‘Critical’ WINGS nails its colours to the mast in Mexico
There was a whiff of impending crisis in the air at the 2017 WINGSForum in Mexico City in February: the growth of populism, increasing restrictions on the freedoms of civil society, social problems that seem …
EDGE needs to be sharper still
‘If you know everyone at your table, you may be at the wrong table’, declared the facilitator at the start of the 2017 EDGE Funders Alliance conference in Barcelona, a remark which was emblematic of …
Coverage from the EDGE Funders Alliance and Council on Foundations’ annual conferences
Alliance is proud to have been part of the media coverage for this year’s EDGE Funders Alliance conference in Barcelona, Spain and the Council on Foundation’s annual conference in Dallas, Texas. EDGE Funders Alliance’s 2017 …
EVPA conference 2013: Leadership, partnership and philanthropy
The 2013 European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) conference in Geneva provided a forum for thought-provoking dialogue around the conference’s theme of ‘Responsible Leadership’. One of the topics that emerged across many of the discussions was …
EVPA conference 2013: are we moving towards pension funds for social investments?
The change is coming, but it comes slowly – this is my summary of this year’s EVPA annual conference, the European conference on social investments. ‘You are small and insignificant’ – that is how the …
