Alina Porumb Alina has been engaged in the civil society and philanthropy development initiatives in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe in the last 23 years, as a development consultant, program director, researcher and volunteer. She is currently the Executive President of the Association for the Practice of Transformation, leading of the Initiative for Strategic […]

By Edgar Villanueva, author of the book “Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance” Whenever we are faced with a problem, there is a tendency to embark on paths for new solutions. We over-appreciate new research but underappreciated the lessons of history, passed down via oral traditions, storytelling and written documentation. […]

By Mariana Sandoval Ulloa, Executive Director at Comunalia With the current situation in the country and the world, Comunalia, the alliance of community foundations in Mexico, decided for the first time to include a strategic transversal line of advocacy aimed at creating better conditions for a favorable development environment for organized civil society, with […]

By President Cheng Gang and May Mei, International Affairs Director, of the China Foundation Center On October 15th, 2019, the China Philanthropy Big Data Research Institute (CPBDRI) was launched in Beijing. CPBDRI is an initiative of the China Foundation Center. Top scholars from Tsinghua University, Peking University and the China Global Philanthropy Institute, as well […]

By Marija Mitrović, Philanthropy and Partnerships Director at the Trag Foundation SouthEast European Indigenous Grantmakers Network (SIGN) is a regional network gathering the Trag Foundation (Serbia), MOZAIK Foundation (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Fund for Active Citizenship – fAKT (Montenegro), Forum for Civic Initiatives – FIQ (Kosovo), HORUS (North Macedonia) and Catalyst Balkans (Serbia). On October […]

By Andrea Hanai, Project Manager IDIS – CAF Brazil By the end of October, São Paulo was the stage for the 2nd WINGS Regional Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean, a two-day meeting aiming to promote peer learning, build regional capacity, and define a joint agenda to fostering a more enabling philanthropy environment in […]