There is a need and opportunity for strategic philanthropy to drive large scale social change. Solving intractable problems requires philanthropy, government and business sectors working effectively together. But philanthropy’s impact is held back by a …

The IKEA Foundation, philanthropic arm to the Swedish homeware giant, has launched a new philanthropic initiative alongside the ClimateWorks Foundation, in a bid to support communities in the Global South impacted by energy transitions from …

In December 2015, Alliance published a special feature on philanthropy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Titled Why philanthropy should care about the SDGs, the issue’s guest editors, Heather Grady, Bheki Moyo and Sevdalina Rukanova, hailed …

Joseph Rowntree Foundation returned for a second year of the funding, philanthropy and investment conference called Next Frontiers – Unlocking resources in this time of crisis and possibility.  With 60 speakers and 1000 +attendees (in person and virtual) the …

A common refrain at Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Next Frontiers conference in London last month is that ‘philanthropy needs a new operating system’. If that’s the case, then what are the implications for the infrastructure which …

What’s happening at the Open Society Foundations? That’s a question likely to be on the minds of people in the philanthropy universe and well beyond. A joint announcement by the Chair and President of OSF …

Ten years after the accession of Croatia to the EU, the philanthropic community will come together to assess how it can contribute to creating the Europe we need, for the world we want – and …

Today, Croatia, a country which lies at the crossroads of central and southeast Europe, and once part of the former Yugoslavia, is in the EU, in the Eurozone and in Schengen – allowing freedom of …

The traditional foundation model – which assumes different forms and styles around the world – still lies at the heart of institutional philanthropy. But in recent years, the old model of charitable foundations has been …

‘The idea of domination is finished, what we really need is collaboration,’ says André Hoffmann, president of the MAVA Foundation, the Swiss biodiversity conservation philanthropy which is in the process of winding up operations. He …