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Girls and young feminist activists at the forefront against Russia’s war in Ukraine

Global Resilience Fund 24 February 2023

This article is part of a longer publication on the brutal impacts of Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine. It has been written by the Global Resilience Fund, a collaborative fund for girls and young feminists …

This Black history month, give where it counts

Elizabeth Barajas-Román 22 February 2023

Dollars go further when you support women’s funds that invest in Black communities. The recent open letter to philanthropy by the Black Feminist Fund, co-signed by several other major foundations, highlighted the urgency for greater …

Re-Imagining Pan-African and Feminist Philanthropies Indaba 2023 kicks off in Naivasha, Kenya

Tendisai Chigwedere, Ndana Bofu-Tawamba and Ebrima Sall 31 January 2023

The world is on fire. There is no more denying what we are seeing and what we are experiencing. Whether we are reeling from the impact of the climate crisis in Brazil, or the compounded …

Major CSR initiative encourages female empowerment through business

Alliance magazine 25 January 2023

India’s Godrej & Boyce – flagship company of the Godrej Group – has established almost 200 women-led businesses as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility interventions on community development. Collectively these businesses have earned $53,000 …

$161m for local initiatives in Africa, Asia, Latin America from Co-Impact

Alliance magazine 21 December 2022

Philanthropic collaborative Co-Impact has announced $161 million in grants for 34 initiatives across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to help make systems more just and inclusive while advancing gender equality and women’s leadership. The grants …

The power of donor organising

Jody Myrum and Purity Kagwiria 17 December 2022

Girls and young feminists bring incredible organising power, creativity, and courage to their activism, working tirelessly to create change in every corner of the world. They are often doing this at great risk to their …

2022: A Year in Philanthropy

1 Amy McGoldrick 13 December 2022

At the end of a long and tumultuous year, Alliance hosted an event at the Aga Khan Centre in London. Looking at the key trends and topics of 2022, we began with a livestreamed panel …

Reflections on a journey of sharing power

Ndana Bofu-Tawamba, Virisila Buadramo, Terry de Vries, Shalini Eddens, Kate Kroeger, Sofía Marcía, Lorena Medina and Vinita Sahasranaman 13 December 2022

Over the last several weeks, we have been reflecting on how we practice feminist principles of philanthropy in each of the Urgent Action Sister Funds, from how we work to build a culture of sharing …

Intersectional work in West Africa needs intersectional funding to match

Rosalie Nezien and Rebecca Reeve 29 November 2022

Most funders have a niche – any website of public and private philanthropies alike will highlight the region, issue, or criteria that its philanthropy works on. But the issues facing many of us today are …

What feminist collective leadership has to offer philanthropy in these times

Sofía Marcía, Lorena Medina and Terry de Vries 29 November 2022

These are not easy times to lead in our sector. From migration to climate to democracy, we face interconnected global crises that are deepening historic inequities and calling for new solutions. As the three Co-Executive …