By Joana Mortari, Member of the Leading Committee of the Movement for a Culture of Giving and Board Member of Associação Acorde In a recent essay, writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit expressed, in a vivid and clear way, that although invisible and immaterial, we reside within many overlapping structures. “They are assembled from ideas, […]
By Pablo Collada, Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Latin America & the Caribbean for WINGS. Just a few weeks ago, in Philanthropy in Focus, we published a piece about an amendment passed by the Indian parliament that modified the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, which regulates foreign funding flows to Indian nonprofits. In that piece, Brian […]
By Laurence Lepetit, Chief Executive Officer, France générosités. Our annual campaign “Vos dons agissent” has just ended and as France générosités we thought we’d share our successes and lessons learnt with WINGS members. Each year in France, 40% of donations are received in the last quarter of the year and half of them only in December. Our […]
By Eugenia Mazurenko, CEO of Zagoriy Foundation According to a recent study produced by the Zagoriy Foundation, 60% of Ukrainians engaged in charitable practices in 2019. Furthermore, 87% of them have participated in charitable activities at least once in their lives. What encourages Ukrainians to give? The most popular reason why Ukrainians help others is compassion for […]
By Asha Curran, CEO, GivingTuesday and WINGSForum 2020 Planning Committee member. As we approach the WINGSForum in a time of uncertainty and upheaval, how can we use this moment, and one another, to rethink, reframe, and refresh the work we do in the world? Our sector often looks at generosity through a narrowly defined and […]
By Dr Sarayu Natarajan, Founder of the Aapti Institute. The word access contains a bit of a paradox within – you cannot have access unless you have access! Especially in the context of technology deployed between the state and the citizens, access is impossible without having access to technology in the first place aka the […]
The European Foundation Centre (EFC) was born on 9 November 1989, the same day the Berlin Wall fell. This landmark date therefore not only marks a paradigm shift in Europe’s history, but also in the way foundations work together to achieve common goals in an array of areas from setting policy, establishing influential networks and serving the public good both in Europe and beyond.
