Foundations

 

Network of European Foundations - From intercultural dialogue to interculturalism

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

By the end of 2008, the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, hundreds of initiatives will have taken place throughout Europe. In order to ensure that the lessons that emerge are taken forward, the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (today Culture Action Europe) have set up the Platform for Intercultural Europe.

This brings together more than 200 civil society organizations and their members engaged in intercultural action throughout Europe – at local, national and regional levels, and in sectors including arts and culture, education and lifelong learning, youth and social affairs, human rights and minorities. Click here to read ...

European Foundation Centre - EFC focuses on fight against poverty

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

In 2009, the European Foundation Centre will be devoting much of its attention to an age-old issue for philanthropy: how foundations can collectively and effectively contribute to the fight against poverty. EFC has decided to make poverty the focus of its next Annual General Assembly and Conference in Rome (14-16 May 2009), where the theme will be explored in the widest sense possible. 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 ...

Diana Leat

Dreamers of small dreams

Diana Leat
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Many foundations have grand missions stating wildly optimistic aspirations rather than recipes for direction and action. In some cases the mission is so all-encompassing that nothing short of global revolution, combined with divine intervention, is required if it is to be achieved. Click here to read ...

Who’s up for changing the world?

Andrew Milner
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

How far are foundations willing to go to try to solve what they see as the most urgent problems facing the human race? The received wisdom about the foundation world goes something like this: because of their freedom from electoral or shareholder pressure, foundations enjoy a greater degree of latitude than the other sectors. 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 ...

Mo Ibrahim

Mo Ibrahim Foundation - Promoting good leadership in Africa

1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

‘Leadership is the single most important factor in determining the future of African countries,’ said Mo Ibrahim in a recent interview for Kenya’s Nation newspaper. ‘By governing well in the interests of all their citizens, good leaders create the conditions where all the other challenges, such as health and access to water, can be tackled much more effectively.’ Established in 2006, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation aims to ‘shine a light on governance in Africa and support great African leadership’. 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 ...

Peter Coltman

Why not shut up shop and go home?

Peter Coltman
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

When Joseph Rowntree set up his charitable trust in 1904, he believed that ‘if the enormous volume of philanthropy of the present day were wisely directed, it would ... in the course of a few years, change the face of England’. Click here to read ...

Caroline Hartnell

Exploring our futures

Caroline Hartnell
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

You may notice that the special feature in this issue of Alliance is shorter than usual. Well, you may not notice – and you may wonder why I’m drawing your attention to a housekeeping issue like this. The reason is that we wanted it to be longer but simply couldn’t find the material to include. Click here to read ...

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