Workshop reflections from Barry Knight, Centris UK, and consultant to the Foundations for Peace Network. “It’s great that this session managed to get peace out of the closet”, said a senior funder to me at the end of a workshop organized by Foundations for Peace at the European Foundation Centre conference in Belfast on 7th…
The recent European Foundation Centre (EFC) annual gathering held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in June 2012 provided a well-attended platform for the discussion of aspects of peace and social justice. Representatives of Charitable Trusts and Foundations from across Europe and beyond considered a wide range of issues including, among other sessions: Effective Investment in Post…
At a table discussion during a convening of social justice philanthropy practitioners in February 2009 in Cairo, Barbara Ibrahim of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement in Cairo pointed out “… where overt protest is repressed, arts and culture are a subversive way to give people voice… unfortunately from a philanthropic…