In philanthropy’s defining decade, can the sector truly afford to see gains undone by mistakes we’ve already named?  This year, Alliance magazine celebrates 30 years of covering global ...

Europe does not lack social innovation. It lacks institutions strong enough to take good ideas beyond the pilot stage.  For years, the European Union has talked about social innovation, social ...

Europe does not lack social innovation. It lacks institutions strong enough to take good ideas beyond the pilot stage.  For years, the European Union has talked about social innovation, social ...

The arrest of a major US philanthropist who gave over $1 million to Palestinians in Gaza has sparked alarm bells over a possible chilling clampdown by the Trump administration.  James ‘Fergie’ ...

Leaders and staff working for the Gates Foundation met serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein 30 times, according to findings from an external review commissioned by the foundation.  Meetings between ...

There is a quiet contradiction at the heart of much organised philanthropy. Foundations exist to serve the public good. They fund work on health, education, climate, the arts, human dignity and many ...

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down at the end of the year after its corporate parent cut off funding and evicted its workers.  Food giant Unilever, owned of confectionary brand Magnum ...

Almost one in ten people living in the EU is a non-national, or in other words, a migrant. Migration is just the movement of humanity, the co-directors of the European Philanthropic Initiative for ...

Giving goes to social causes – to where people can bring about change, where lives can be improved, where marginalised people ...

N.B. In this article, we adopt a narrow definition of philanthropy, referring to institutional philanthropy (foundations) with a predominant grantmaking nature.  Nowadays, scarcely a word on the ...

The war on Iran that broke out earlier this year has caused a cascade of crises for people both within Iran and around the ...

The Africa Climate x Nature Salon on resourcing the frontlines of the climate movement. I will always remember visiting an Indigenous community in the Congo Basin rainforest that kept up a poster of ...