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Data on philanthropy in the Arab region needed

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

In September, the John D Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University of Cairo and the Arab Foundations Forum (AFF) met to discuss issues related to quantitative data collection on philanthropy in the Arab region, including definitions and classifications and identifying the gaps in available data. Click here to read ...

Palestinians pilot community-based resource distribution

Nora Murad
1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory are the world’s largest per capita recipients of international aid, yet they have very limited influence over how that aid is used. Civil society’s dependence on international aid contributes to a host of problems, including donor-driven agendas, wasted human and financial resources, and fraudulent practices. Also, donor-dependent CSOs become accountable to their donors rather than to their local communities. Communities themselves often see very little of the aid money once the aid agency takes its administrative costs and the international NGO intermediary takes its cut. This leaves Palestinians without mechanisms for real participation, much less leadership, in their own social change and development. Click here to read ...

NEF - Mercator Fund expanding role

1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

The NEF Mercator Fund, which initiates and supports projects related to Europe’s role in global social, security and development issues, is being expanded both in thematic and geographical terms. From 2008 onwards, its three main portfolios will be Global Insurgency, Public Security and Public Health. Within these three programmes, the NEF Mercator Fund is actively seeking new partnerships and co-funding opportunities with foundations and other organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. Click here to read ...

What other association leaders said...

1 April 2008
Alliance magazine

Alliance asked a group of association leaders from different parts of the world to respond to Steve Gunderson’s interview and the idea of holding an all-embracing Philanthropy Summit. This is what they said.

Gerry Salole  European Foundation Centre Click here to read ...

Could the Council on Foundations do more...

Atallah Kuttab & Marcos Kisil
1 April 2008
Alliance magazine

Two Alliance editorial board members, Atallah Kuttab and Marcos Kisil, had issues they wanted to raise with Steve Gunderson, following his interview for Alliance.

Atallah Kuttab

9/11 has brought US Government regulations to curb giving to third world countries and much intimidation on the giving scene in the Arab region, all in the name of the 'war on terrorism'. What is the Council on Foundations doing to change those regulations, to give some confidence to outsiders that foundations in the US are not indifferent to the situation?

Steve Gunderson Click here to read ...

Spotlight on Turkey - New developments in community philanthropy

Filiz Bikmen
1 December 2007
Alliance magazine

Community philanthropy has started spreading in the Turkish community, on both sides of the Atlantic. 2007 was an exciting year, with the establishment of two new organizations: a community foundation in Turkey, and a philanthropic fund for donors based in the US who want to give to Turkey.

Turkey?s first community foundation

On 3 August, a group of government, business and foundation leaders came together in Bolu (a town of approximately 85,000 inhabitants, about 250 km from Istanbul) to celebrate an important milestone in the third sector: the establishment of Turkey?s first community foundation. Click here to read ...

Interview - Uday Khemka

1 September 2007
Alliance magazine

Uday Khemka comes from an Indian family that has been in business for about 100 years. The Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation's mission has historically been nothing to do with climate change but has rather focused on poverty and development issues, microfinance and so on. How did it come to be involved in climate change, Caroline Hartnell asked Uday Khemka. It happened about three years ago, he explains. 'We started to realize that everything we were doing was fundamentally affected by this issue and could be literally washed over by it.'

Why climate change? Click here to read ...

Update: Pakistan NGOs reject Code of Conduct

1 June 2007
Alliance magazine

James Shaw-Hamilton’s article in the March issue of Alliance reported that the Government of Pakistan was working closely with NGOs, with the assistance of the UK Charity Commission, to develop a Code of Conduct for regulators and NGOs. Since then, the situation seems to have deteriorated, with some NGOs in vocal opposition. Click here to read ...

Norine MacDonald

Interview - Norine MacDonald

1 April 2007
www.alliancemagazine.org

When funders talk about risk, they are usually referring to the risk that the money they put into a project may not have the effect they anticipated or may be wasted. But risk can refer to the possibilities of making powerful enemies and suffering actual bodily harm, as Caroline Hartnell found out when she talked to Norine MacDonald about the work of Senlis Afghanistan, which is proposing alternatives to the current US and UK policy of destroying the Afghan opium poppy crop. Click here to read ...

Center to provide resources for Arab philanthropy

1 March 2007
Alliance magazine

Founded in March last year and based at the American University in Cairo (AUC), the John D Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement has launched several initiatives to support a small but rapidly changing philanthropy scene in the Arab world. Click here to read ...

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