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Fireside chat with Regan Ralph
Full disclosure: there was no chat by a fire. Yet, as Autumn is slowly creeping up on London, with dowdy grey skies above and I-should-have-brought-a-bigger-coat level winds pushing through the streets, it was a relief …
Rawa Fund’s first community-led projects underway across Palestine
Rawa, the creative Palestinian communities fund, who recently released their first ever grant list, focusing on 23 community grassroots projects, are now underway. All are operating under Rawa’s belief in the ‘collective power, participation and …
From pies to a giving circle: Changing the life of a Karelian village in Russia
The Mill Community Foundation, from a Karelian village Pryazha (Northern Russia), with a population of 3500 people started its work in 2014, baking pies. Today it is one of the most visible community foundations in …
UKCF19: Empowering Communities Together
Alliance magazine is proud to have been a media partner at this year’s UK Community Foundations Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. We’d like to thank the following contributors: Fozia Irfan Bedforshire and Luton CF, Joe Crome Surrey CF, …
Bricks and mortar
About this time last week, I was heading up to Glasgow for the UK Community Foundation Conference 2019, and as has already been commented, it seemed all at once a whole new cohort of staff …
So much to learn from ‘big and smaller brothers’ around the world
I’m still trying to catch my breath a bit after last weeks conference in Glasgow. A relative new bee to the whole community foundation (CF) world it was my first international encounter with CF’s from …
Are community foundations relevant?
Working in philanthropy requires continuous review, reassessment and reevaluation. The UK Community Foundation conference being held in Glasgow, provides an opportunity for community foundations to do exactly that and to challenge our assumptions. As the …
The Eurostar goes both ways
At the 2019 UKCF Conference, I was asked to give a five minute ‘lightning talk’ on the closing day sharing my views and perception of what the Conference theme ‘Empowering Communities Together’ means to me, …
Experts in place, but it doesn’t stop there
What is a Community Foundation’s USP? This question, and many offered answers, came up several times over the course of the UKCF conference. The strongest contender, it would seem, is our claim to be ‘experts …
Think global, act local
‘Think global, act local’ could be an adopted mantra of the International Community Foundation movement as we connect place-based giving across the world to make a positive social impact. On this theme, CEO Martha Wilkinson …
