February 2016

Grantmaking For Social Justice And Peace: Approaches Drawn From Shared Practice by Avila Kilmurray and Barry Knight is a study drawn from a wide range of independent funders into the nature of philanthropy for promoting social justice and peace.  The aim of the study is “to share the experiences and practices of many different funders and, in doing so, to encourage self-reflection.”

MamaCash and Grantcraft have published a new guide for grantmakers to strengthen the role of European foundations in supporting women and girls.

The guide is “...filled with examples of what foundation professionals in thirty-one European foundations (and their advisors) are doing to integrate a gender perspective in their work and/or to focus some of their investments on women and girls”, writes Nicky McIntyre, Executive Director of Mama Cash. (Read highlights from the guide in Nicky’s blog post here.)

The guide explores how foundations can further deepen their commitment to empowering women and girls and provides practical strategies for integration of a gender lens in their work. The guide will be an important tool for foundations that are addressing or want to address the structures that result in exclusion and marginalisation and want to support inclusion with women and girls in the equation.

Here are links to videos of some of the sessions from the Cairo Convening on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace in February 2009. They are available on Vimeo (please click on the links in red). To view any of these videos, please use the password psjp:

Kirsty and the Evaluators (the play about the challenges of evaluation produced at the convening in Cairo).

Grantmaking Strategies Presentation featuring Avila Kilmurray (Community Foundation for Northern Ireland), Ana Criquillion (Central American Women's Fund) and Stephen Pittam (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust)