March 2001

Philanthropy promotion centres around the world

Volume 6 , Number 1

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Book review

No logo, no solution by Naomi Klein

1 March 2001
Alan Christie

Globalization appears to be the buzzword of our times. The literature on the subject must be generating enough books to threaten large tracts of the world’s forests. A prominent contribution to that body of writing is Naomi Klein’s No Logo. In her lengthy and passionate polemic on the power of global corporations, Klein recognizes that the visibility of the brand exacerbates public discontent with companies’ failures, but fails to see that in this visibility lies …

 
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David Bonbright

Editorial

Editorial – Associations of grantmakers: why should we care about them?

On 16-17 October 2000, some 300 leading citizens of Pakistan came together in Islamabad in a major national conference. The head of state set the stage. Government ministers, many other senior public officials, and leaders from business, media and civil society organizations conferred vigorously for two days. At the climax of their deliberations, they launched a new national organization. What was the topic that had captured the Pakistani national imagination in late 2000? It was not Kashmir, nuclear proliferation or political democratization. It was indigenous philanthropy – and, specifically, indigenous philanthropy as a resource for sustainable development. Nor is Pakistan …

Editorial – March 2001

It is all too easy for a magazine like Alliance to focus on the support given to Southern countries by Northern donors. I recently attended a meeting addressed by Poul Nielson, European Commissioner for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid. He mentioned, as an illustration of South-South solidarity, that the EU has contributed 1 billion euros of unspent money formerly allocated to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) initiative – with the agreement of the better-off ACP countries. EU countries have not allocated extra funds. ‘I find that embarrassing,’ said Nielson.  With the world’s …

Special feature

Special feature

Barry Gaberman

Associations of grantmakers: why should we care about them?

1 March 2001
Special feature

David Winder

Local vision plus international influence – the case of the Mexican Cente…

1 March 2001
Special feature

Alliance magazine

Colombian Center for Corporate Responsibility

1 March 2001

Opinions, articles and interviews

Analysis

Alliance magazine

Why Ford is supporting the new centre in Nairobi

1 March 2001
Interview

Alliance magazine

Interview – Hassan Rattansi

1 March 2001
Analysis

Andrew Kingman

Tapping into Africa’s ‘spirit of generosity’

1 March 2001
Analysis

Caroline Hartnell and Joanna Thorne

Promoting philanthropy around the world

1 March 2001
Analysis

Olga Alexeeva

Funder or friend – the dilemma for local intermediary grantmakers

1 March 2001
Analysis

Robert Ashby

Charitable giving without religion

1 March 2001
Analysis

Kevin F F Quigley

Global Alliance aims to improve factory workers’ lives

1 March 2001

Book reviews

Foundation Building Sourcebook by David Winder and A Scott DuPree
Mokheti Moshoeshoe

Development NGOs Facing the 21st Century: Perspectives from South Asia by Juha Vartola et al
Iftekhar Zaman

The Mystery of Capital: Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else by Hernando de Soto
Michael Brophy

Books in brief
Alliance magazine

Localization: A global manifesto by Colin Hines
Michael Edwards

The Virtuous Spiral: A guide to sustainability for NGOs in international development by Alan Fowler
Kabiru Kinyanjui and Karuti Kanyinga