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Grantmakers without borders - Gw/oB helps to foster global grantmaking across the US

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Working closely with Grantmakers Without Borders, a group of donors has launched an effort to bring New England global funders together on a regular basis for networking and peer-to-peer learning. The aim is to build stronger connections among New England-based international donors and to improve grantmaking practice.

Well-attended launch events this autumn covered topics such as Anatomy of a Global Donor, Creating a Global Giving Mission Statement, and Working with International Intermediaries. Plans are under way to continue this work with a series of monthly gatherings and other learning and networking events. Click here to read ...

Council on Foundations - International giving by US foundations soars to over billion

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

International Grantmaking IV, a new Foundation Center study of international grantmaking trends commissioned by the Council on Foundations, reports that US foundations gave an estimated $5.4 billion for international purposes in 2007. The figure includes both direct grants to overseas recipients and funding for US-based organizations conducting international programmes. Click here to read ...

Community Foundations of Canada Conference

Barry Smith
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Event Our Communities, Our World: Community Foundations of Canada Conference
Date 7-9 November
Venue Montreal, Canada

Canada’s remarkable movement of community foundations (now numbering 165) brought the world to Montreal for a truly global gathering in November. Community Foundations of Canada’s biennial conference, ‘Our Communities, Our World’, drew more than 650 delegates, including participants from across Canada and from 29 other countries, to engage in an inspiring dialogue about the past, present and future of community philanthropy. Click here to read ...

Social Capital Markets Conference

Lucy Bernholz
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Event Social Capital Markets Conference
Date 13-15 October
Venue San Francisco, USA Click here to read ...

The Rosenberg Foundation - Supporting a class action against Wal-Mart

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Established in 1935, the California-based Rosenberg Foundation is committed to nurturing promising efforts to create a more just and economically inclusive society. It has long supported impact litigation as one of the critical tools – along with policy advocacy, organizing, and public education – to advance structural reform of public policies and private practices. The latest, and potentially most far-reaching, example is supporting Equal Rights Advocates’ (ERA) and Impact Fund’s lawsuit challenging Wal-Mart’s pay and promotion policies for its female workers in the US. Click here to read ...

Ann Krumboltz

Sense of urgency prompts Brainerd sunset

Ann Krumboltz
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Driven by a sense of urgency about ecological issues facing our planet, and by founder and president Paul Brainerd’s desire to see the results of his foundation’s efforts in his lifetime, the Brainerd Foundation is developing a strategy to spend out its assets over the next 10 to 12 years. Click here to read ...

Tim Ogden

Revisiting the idea of perpetuity

Tim Ogden
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

As most know, the US has the friendliest public policy towards private charity among developed nations. Gifts to charities and foundations are tax-deductible with only minor limits. In most cases, foundations’ earnings are tax-exempt as well. Once established, foundations are bound to distribute 5 per cent of the current value of their assets each year. But is this enough? Do we really want eternal foundations? Click here to read ...

Vital Signs gives mixed report card for Canada

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Child poverty in Canada is stuck at the same level as in 1989 and immigrant family incomes are falling behind, according to Canada’s Vital Signs 2008, the annual report card on quality of life produced by Community Foundations of Canada (CFC). Click here to read ...

Preferring the carrot to the stick

Steve Gunderson
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

When history looks back on the philanthropic world in the first decade of the 21st century, I suspect it will define us in basic ways. It will record that during this time philanthropy grew in size, service and scrutiny. Of these three, I think the most dramatic change will have been the growth in scrutiny.

While Rick Cohen’s call to accountability is appropriate, it is hardly new; in fact, it has always been with us. And it is even more critical as we seek to gain the confidence of a new generation of potential philanthropists. Click here to read ...

Tilting the balance of power towards the middle

Pablo Eisenberg
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

I must take issue with David Emerson’s response to Rick Cohen’s article on philanthropic watchdogs.

The experience of the American foundation sector speaks forcefully to the need for both government regulation and enforcement and the oversight of watchdog non-profit organizations. The Internal Revenue Service is responsible for monitoring the compliance of more than 90,000 foundations with the legislation and regulations that govern them. To date, the IRS has had neither the funds nor the will to do a decent job. Its approach to monitoring has been permissive and lacklustre, and its willingness to enforce the rules has been weak at best. Click here to read ...

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