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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 ...

Astrid Bonfield

It’s all about effectiveness …

Astrid Bonfield
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

This issue of Alliance raises the question why foundations are so often failing to respond to emerging global crises. Many foundations would argue that their greatest value lies in their long-term view and that their role is to address ongoing social inequalities over time. So the question is not about foundations dropping everything they do in light of global crises such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic or climate change but about making sure that their work reflects new and emerging global realities. And this is a question of effectiveness. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tony Pender

Mission in meltdown?

Tony Pender
1 December 2008
Alliance magazine

Progressive social change foundations exist to improve the lives of disadvantaged people. Many have shown great imagination, professionalism and tenacity in so doing. But now that disadvantaged people worldwide are facing threats of unprecedented scale and severity because of climate change and increasing competition for overstretched natural resources, are these same foundations losing the plot? Click here to read ...

David Hulme

Aid in the 21st century: who’s in the driver’s seat?

David Hulme
1 September 2008
Alliance magazine

Official development assistance (ODA) has altered dramatically over the last ten years – more money, better directed and administered, with greater stress on reducing poverty and greater ownership of the recipients over the whole of the aid process – so the official communiques would have us believe. But has it really? Despite appearances to the contrary, donors have been hesitant to relinquish control over aid spending, slow to abandon realpolitik in favour of compassion towards distant strangers, and cautious about digging deeper into their pockets. Click here to read ...

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