By Lauren Bradford and Natalie Ross We can now say that community foundations across the United States are officially international grantmakers. We’ve witnessed the emerging trend of US community foundations making global grants for several years. But now, for the first time ever, we have data showing that this shift is bigger than many…
CAF Russia recently published a report on the Social Return Of Investment (SROI) of their programme with Mondelez International Foundation. This report articulates the social impact of the BeHealthy Charitable Programme funded by Mondelez International Foundation using (SROI) methodology. It also provides conclusions and recommendations aimed at increasing social impact created by the Programme. This SROI analysis not only proved…
Naila Farouky from the Arab Foundations Forum has just published a fantastic article in the Development in Practice Journal – an abstract below. The Arab Foundations Forum (AFF) has spent the past two years studying the landscape in which the forum functions. AFF, as a membership-based network of philanthropic foundations based in and/or working in the Arab…
Effective philanthropy: Another Take (edited and with an introduction by Caroline Hartnell and Andrew Milner) is a collection of 11 stories describing a philanthropic intervention against some form of injustice (socioeconomic and/or political) at a local, national or global scale. These stories are told through the lens of a grantmaker illuminating the sorts of considerations, dilemmas…
Following up on WINGS Infrastructure in Focus series, we are launching a new study on the Landscape of Support to Corporate Philanthropy, looking into and opening a discussion on the learnings and experiences of WINGS members, and sharing these with a wider audience. The report looks into a field that is in different degrees of…
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