There are few questions more likely to induce squirming in a room full of grant-makers than the one posed by Alliance ...

There is a different kind of energy in a room when an organisation takes a moment to look in the mirror. Such was the ...

Following a morning of reflective keynotes setting the scene for Alliance’s 30th-anniversary celebrations, the room’s attention turned to a sector that has unparalleled global attention yet often sits ...

Funding systems can shape everything from who can afford to apply to what kinds of work survives and under what conditions.

The Brazilian Philanthropy Forum left me with a question: what exactly needs to be reinvented?  The Forum’s theme, ‘between essence and reinvention’, invites us to reflect on the balance between ...

To say that civil society has taken a hit in recent years is no longer news. Funding cuts by donors have affected civil society actors (CSAs) worldwide and the impact has been most severe in ...

Institute for the Development of Social Investment, in partnership with the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) and Alliance Magazine, the panel brought together Cassio França, Secretary-General of GIFE; ...

Every second year our national conference gives us a chance to step back from the daily work of running a peak body for community foundations and ask some bigger questions: what does Aotearoa New ...

In recent years, an increasing number of family philanthropies are grappling with the ambiguities of an ever-evolving landscape and, as a result, funders are being challenged to revisit what it means ...

The US-based Wallace Global Fund called for US philanthropy to go beyond the 5 percent minimum payout threshold, after it announced plans to spend its entire endowment towards strengthening movements, ...

Some questions stay with us throughout our journey and take on new meanings as the world changes. In education and social investment, one of them has become increasingly present for me: what do we ...

Approaching her 80th birthday, Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo carries in her personal and literary trajectory some of ...