Month: December 2012

By Nadia van der Linde, Red Umbrella Fund Coordinator In April of this year, a new innovative global grant-making mechanism for and by sex workers was launched: the Red Umbrella Fund . During the first call for proposals, the fund received more than 1100 applications from 110 countries and the Fund is now getting ready…

In the wake of the African Grantmakers Network Assembly, Halima Mohamed, from Trust Africa, takes stock of the state of African philanthropy. The recent African Grantmakers Network Assembly held in Johannesburg, South Africa, provided a defining opportunity, a space where African philanthropic institutions of many varieties and orientations and African activists, thinkers and leaders, came…