The MacArthur Foundation is to commit $100 million in grants towards protecting democracy in the US.  Funds will go towards ‘non partisan’ organisations working across national, state level and local ...

Working with communities across West Africa and the Horn of Africa reveals how philanthropy can unintentionally reproduce the very inequalities it seeks to address My name is Mary-Yvonne. I grew up in ...

Registration has opened for WINGSForum 2026, which will take place 28–30 September in Montreal, Canada. Held every three ...

Individual giving from British people has nosedived, to the extent that it has fallen out of a ‘deeply embedded cultural norm’.  An annual report published by the Charities Aid ...

Alliance magazine has announced the appointment of Rhodri Davies as director of philanthropy knowledge. Rhodri will lead on ...

Nigeria is set to launch a $25 million public-private backed fund for basic education.  The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), a global initiative bringing philanthropic funds alongside governments, ...

Local funds across the Global South already possess the infrastructure, trust, and expertise to finance climate and nature ...

Philanthropy funded the extinction of community midwifery through its obsession with evidence-based outcomes and scalable solutions. That same funding practice logic is still being applied today. We ...

Our editorial advisory council comprises up to 40 experts enabling Alliance to draw on the subject expertise and place-based knowledge of leading philanthropy practitioners worldwide. Through expert ...

The Skoll Foundation is investing 80 percent of its endowment in social impact with many returns ‘exceeding performance of comparable asset classes’, its CEO has said in a Linkedin post ahead of the ...

Cuts, gaps, and inequities in global cancer research funding are calling out for philanthropy itself to be cured Medical philanthropy likes to debate money.  How much is needed, how it’s distributed, ...