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Is the philanthropic world ready for new ways of funding?
The #ShiftThePower movement – launched in Johannesburg in 2016 – has changed the course of the conversation about both philanthropy and sustainable development. But in a field that is still evolving, how far is the …
Business of Impact 2024
Business of Impact gathers corporate impact stakeholders in search of the most effective ways to advance their social impact by strategically leveraging corporate resources. It brings together 200+ corporate impact actors at the intersection of …
JRF’s Next Frontiers Conference
Next Frontiers: Stewarding Wealth for People & Planet, is the third year of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s funding, philanthropy and investment conference – paying attention to the whole wealth and finance ecology. This year, much …
If enough millionaires and billionaires get scared off, then the right wins, says executive director of Solidaire Network
Rajasvini Bhansali is the Executive Director of Solidaire Network and Solidare Action, a community of donor organisers mobilising critical resources to the frontlines of social justice. After participating in a panel discussion titled ‘Humanising and …
Book review: Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South
Reimagining Philanthropy in the Global South is a bit like the arrival of a letter you knew must be on its way, but took a long time to get there. The editors have put together …
Philea Forum 2024: Trust and Philanthropy
In an era marked by the ongoing erosion of public trust in established institutions and growing demands for democracy, equality, climate action and social justice, the conference offered a space for philanthropy practitioners to share …
Private means for public ends?
We’ve given contributors to this special feature of Alliance a particularly difficult task. We’ve asked them to bring together the notion of the common good with the principle and practice of philanthropy and to discern …
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire
Reviewed by Deborah Doane, partner at Rights CoLab Tim Schwab’s forensic expose, The Bill Gates Problem, Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire makes for very uncomfortable (and gripping) reading. Schwab reveals Gates’ influence …
Welcome to the June 2024 issue of Alliance
Like motherhood and apple pie, who would not be in favour of pursuing the common good? But what exactly is the common good? And do those of us working in philanthropy have a special responsibility …
Social justice and philanthropy – still an uneasy relationship
Is there really such a thing as social justice philanthropy? That’s one of the big philosophical questions facing our field. It’s one which those of us working in philanthropy will have reflected on, at least …
