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Time for funders to step up and resource Indigenous communities
Vibrant Indigenous-led movements offer solutions to many of the world’s most pressing problems, yet these movements remain dramatically underfunded. Indigenous communities represent some 6.2 percent of the world’s population, but they receive less than one …
Human Rights Foundation announces grants from Bitcoin Development Fund
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced its latest round of grants from their Bitcoin Development Fund. Fifteen grants will go towards Bitcoin development and providing developers from repressive regimes financial aid to offset travel …
Impact Minds: Standing Together 2023
Latimpacto’s annual conference ‘Impact Minds: Standing Together’ aimed to facilitate connections with other change-makers and leaders of the impact ecosystem, stay on top of paradigm changes and new thought models, and promote innovative proposals and alliances to …
Interview: Alejandro Álvarez von Gustedt, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and co-founder of Latimpacto
During the second edition of Impact Minds, Standing Together: The Value of Meetings to advance in collaboration with Latimpacto on August 29 and 30 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I had the opportunity to interview Alejandro Alvarez …
Impact Minds, Standing Together: the value of meetings to advance in collaboration
Something extraordinary happened on August 29 and 30 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We gathered over 500 participants from 27 countries and 200+ speakers for Latimpacto’s second annual conference, Impact Minds: Standing Together. Latimpacto is a young network …
Reflections from the Conference: living Latimpacto’s rhythm
A few weeks ago, I participated in Latimpacto´s second conference in Rio, titled, Impact Minds Standing Together. The essence of this network is rooted in strengthening human connection. Latimpacto is a young network that grows from the …
Five reflections from Impact Minds
I recently heard someone call this Fall; “Conference Season”. And while I had to chuckle, it was a pretty accurate description of the next three months for the impact sector! With many convenings coming back …
Why bolstering institutional trust is essential for social impact
A UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs 2021 report found that the percentage of people expressing confidence or trust in their countries peaked at 46 percent in 2006 and by 2019 had fallen to …
Peer dialogue: SDG progress is a city affair
María Fernanda Cortes is the technical coordinator of the Red de Ciudades Cómo Vamos in Colombia, an initiative supported by the Corona Foundation. Here she talks to guest editor Rodrigo Villar about the development of …
Sustainable development: Know your audience
The SDGs can provide a valuable means of aligning and measuring efforts towards sustainable development – even more so when they are customised to local circumstances Comunalia is the Alliance of Community Foundations of Mexico, …
