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Book Review: The Bill Gates Problem
For many working with philanthropy, there is always a twinge of discomfort. Philanthropy itself arises out of an unequal system where a few individuals are able to accrue far more wealth than they actually need, …
Funding challenges in the movement to end statelessness
Statelessness is a global issue for between four and ten million people worldwide. Global conflicts and other issues deny stateless people citizenship in any country. That’s despite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes …
Empowering the Next Generation: Green Education is Key
‘If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.’ This ancient Chinese proverb remains relevant to humankind’s future, even as we struggle against an existential environmental …
HIV drugmaker provides a case study in philanthropic whitewashing
In October Funders Concerned About AIDS, a philanthropic body that describes itself as one to take ‘bold actions and push philanthropy to respond to HIV and AIDS’, recognised Gilead as being the number one philanthropic …
What if we apply the Inner Development Goals framework to philanthropy?
The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) are a framework to enhance transformational skills for sustainable development. While we have both vision and knowledge around how to achieve sustainability, we are struggling to reach significant progress in …
The importance of ‘language justice’ in social justice movements
‘As an Indigenous and ethnic minority woman, I dream, I laugh, I experience my true self in my own language. I need to be able to express myself in my own language in multilingual spaces,’ …
Building LGBTQI+ solidarity in the age of pinkwashing
Towards the end of last year I attended the UK LGBTQI Global Giving Summit, hosted by the Baring Foundation and Giveout. As a young, queer person, I was excited to see a conference devoted to …
Response to Sommer: How to miss the point of board members
In his article on staff relations with boards, Simon Sommer makes three central claims, and they come one right after the other: The primary role of a board is to ensure that every action taken …
The #ShiftThePower Global Summit
The #ShiftThePower Global Summit brought together changemakers and trailblazers from around the world and from across different parts of the international development, philanthropy and civil society systems. A key objective was to create ‘good collisions’ …
The Economist’s philanthrocapitalism is still the predominant narrative
Earlier this month, the publication which spawned and celebrated the birth of philanthrocapitalism in the heady days of 2006 has just renounced it eighteen years later. What took them so long? The crossing of the …