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10 years of the World Giving Index: what have we learned?
Alliance magazine, global infrastructure network WINGS and the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) came together for their first joint webinar to discuss the 10th anniversary of the World Giving Index. This hour-long event discussed the use …
Be the narrative: revolutionising human rights
2019 has been the year that narrative-building went mainstream. As my colleague James Logan foreshadowed in January, human rights groups and their funders have increasingly realized that narrative strategy is an essential part of a …
Fund for Global Human Rights and Just Labs partner to create practical advice for Human Rights Groups
The Fund for Global Human Rights and Just Labs have partnered to create a document that seeks to provide guidance to human rights groups on practical ways they can counter, what they have called, the …
Courageous women are organising everywhere, and they need our support
With so many active and inspiring groups around the world, Mama Cash calls upon a broad community of funders to resource feminist organising. In her 2015 poem ‘What They Did Yesterday Afternoon’, Warsan Shire writes, …
Shifting power to resist the rights backlash with trust based philanthropy
In a world of populist, ‘punching down’ and divisive politics, trust is a commodity in short supply. A bleak reality, and one with significant consequence for individuals, communities, nations – and philanthropy. Regardless of where …
An elegant blueprint: How an ecological paradigm can advance transformative justice
‘People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier, which narrows …
TOMORROW: Free Alliance, WINGS and CAF webinar on the World Giving Index
Registration closes tonight for our free Alliance, WINGS and CAF webinar on the World Giving Index! Join us and share your perspective on a decade’s worth of data which has strengthened the culture of giving. Andrew Milner, Associate …
New report on giving trends of private foundations to higher education
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers and the TIAA released another report on the giving trends of private foundations to higher education. Their previous report, on the topic, was in 2017. The 2019 report is an expansion on their …
New philanthropic guide for strengthening democracy
The Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP), has released the report We the People: A Philanthropic Guide to Strengthening Democracy which helps ‘create a framework for anyone looking to strengthen the democratic system.’ According to …
Three reflections after a year spent with funders
I’ve spent a lot of time this year listening to funders; on the phone; at roundtables and during the three retreats we’ve held this year on Wasan Island as part of the SIX Funders Node. …
