Resources
Funding Systems Change: Challenges and Opportunities
This report highlights the learning from funders and is intended to help nurture the emerging community of foundations working in systems change by codifying and sharing examples and practices from the pioneers and early adopters of this approach.
Change Not Charity: the Story of the Funding Exchange
The story of the Funding Exchange, a pioneering national network in USA of social justice foundations. The story offers lessons that have practical relevance for today’s social justice funders and activists, philanthropy scholars, and foundation professionals.
Funding In Conflict-Affected Environments
Funding In Conflict-Affected Environments addresses the question – how can independent philanthropy fund activities and initiatives in conflict-affected areas in order to promote and support peacebuilding? The study has been authored by Avila Kilmurray and published by the Social Change Initiative, Belfast and the Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace.
Ten years of Peacebuilding Work in Conflict Regions: Reflections and a Policy Contribution from the FFP Network
On the Network’s 10th anniversary (2016), the two publications present the combined experiences and reflections of the members of the Foundations for Peace Network. They offer the lessons from the network members experience and their thinking on the way forward for philanthropy and its role in the current difficult times.
Effective Philanthropy: Another Take
May 2016 Effective philanthropy: another take (edited by Caroline Hartnell and Andrew Milner) is a collection of 11 stories describing a philanthropic intervention against some form of injustice (socioeconomic and/or political) at a local, national or global scale. These stories are told through the lens of a grantmaker illuminating the sorts of considerations, dilemmas, and uncertainties…
Blog
Thinking and Working Politically: A Way Forward on SDG 16
By Debra Ladner SDG 16 recognizes that peace, justice, and accountable institutions are critical to sustainable, transformative, and inclusive development. It sets out ambitious targets on a range of issues from reducing violence and corruption, to combatting trafficking and organized crime, to ensuring legal identity for all. In doing so, SDG 16 provides a long-awaited…
Foundations and Risk: Webb Memorial Trust
By Barry Knight In 2012, I conducted research for the European Foundation Centre into foundations and their attitude to risk. The main finding was that foundations are confused about risk. They commonly hold two opposing ideas in their minds. On the one hand 94% of our respondents agreed with the statement that ‘foundations have a…
Interview with GiveIndia founder Venkat Krishnan
By Caroline Hartnell Daan Utsav started in 2009 as Joy of Giving Week. Since then it has gone from strength to strength, with millions getting involved, largely in volunteering and informal giving. Could this develop into more formal, organized giving, Caroline Hartnell asked Venkat Krishnan, founder and former CEO of GiveIndia and one of the…
Northern Ireland – peace, resilience and community activism
By Avila Kilmurray A recent study of community activism in Northern Ireland highlights resilience as a key outcome of the contribution of community action during times of both violence and tentative peacebuilding. In situations of protracted conflict, where abnormality becomes the norm, community-based organisation can create the necessary space for activists to articulate concerns and…
News
The story of grassroots activism in Northern Ireland told by Avila Kilmurray
Much has been written about the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but one story remains untold: that of the grassroots activism that maintained local communities in the face of violence. Community Action in a Contested Society: The Story of Northern Ireland, by Avila Kilmurray published in 2017 available now from Peter Lang Publishers, speaks through the voices of the activists themselves, drawn from both sides of a divided society.
WINGS Froum breakfast session- The role of philanthropy in society: whats there? whats next?
In the June 2015 issue of Alliance Caroline Hartnell observed that during her 16-year tenure as editor of Alliance, philanthropy had become more advanced in its methods of planning, implementation and evaluation, but there had been correspondingly little progress in clarifying its role and purpose. An ongoing open-ended study seeking to fill this gap and…
The Global Summit on Community Philanthropy is days away!
On December 1-2, 2016, over 350 delegates will converge in Johannesburg to celebrate, network, strategize and draw lessons from the flourishing field of Community Philanthropy that has emerged as an essential tool for strengthening communities’ voice and power. Hosted by the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF), the summit promises to provide a platform for…
South Africa’s Bhekinkosi Moyo wins fourth Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize
On November 15, 2016, Alliance Magazine announced the winner of the fourth Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize: Bhekinkosi Moyo. Bheki is the executive director of the Southern Africa Trust and chair of the Africa Philanthropy Network. He has also been instrumental in setting up a Chair in African Philanthropy at the Witwatersrand Business School (WBS) in South Africa.…