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GDP growth is not the answer…
At the recent Global Inclusive Growth summit hosted by the Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth, we heard how gender inequality is bad for growth and leaves ‘trillions on the table instead of catapulting gross domestic …
We can’t hashtag our way to change
In developing Healing Solidarity in 2018, I was trying to reignite conversations about re-imagining ‘development’ which had been happening for decades. At the time, I was amazed by the 1500 e-responses and took it as …
AVPN: UAE commits $125 million for global health, poverty alleviation, and species conservation
A raft of funding commitments from government and philanthropic bodies has accompanied the start of a major gathering of philanthropy and impact investors in Abu Dhabi. The announcements at AVPN Global – a network that …
USAID scrutinised by staff and developmental health workers over Gaza
The US Agency for International Development is under pressure from some of its staff who say the governmental organisation, who help fund and collaborate private philanthropies, has been unable to grasp the severity of the …
Belfast celebrates a peace process by posing questions to Philanthropy
Reflecting on discussions held in Belfast, framed by the question ‘Countering Violent Conflict and Polarisation: How Can Donors Help?’ Melanie Greenberg (Humanity United) praised the event – ‘I think it was for creative imagination, moral …
The emerging story of philanthropy and peace
Recent growth in violent conflict across the world means that philanthropy has little choice but to address it. While the world’s media are focused on Ukraine and the Middle East, other regions including Sudan, Ethiopia, …
‘Shift the Power’: Narrow internal gaze or shaping an equal future?
Seven hundred extraordinary people from philanthropies, developmental agencies, NGOs, and community groups, gathered in Bogota, Colombia last December to deliberate on the unequal power distribution in the global developmental sector,[1] and to find paths to …
Drought-stricken Zimbabweans look to philanthropy for food aid
Large swathes of croplands lie abandoned in Zimbabwe’s Mutare district as El Niño induced drought ravages the country. Last year, the Meteorological Services Department confirmed that the El Niño episode was expected to be most …
Best practice for managing a non-profit across time zones
Rural Uganda. Atlanta, Georgia. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gallup, New Mexico. Italy. Norway. Denver, Colorado. These are the places in which The InteRoots Initiative – a small, agile nonprofit made up of an executive director and a …
Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024: Thrive through Equity
Celebrating its 15th edition, Dasra Philanthropy Week 2024 invited a convergence of diverse stakeholders and voices within the development ecosystem anchored around the theme of ‘Thrive through Equity’, to help shape a collective perspective for …
