• Philea publishes “2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What’s Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It”

    A new report by the Democracy Network exploring democratic backsliding, its causes and potential solutions
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  • Applications open for the Philanthropic Leadership Platform: China-Europe 2025

    The upcoming edition will bring together 20 philanthropy professionals, 10 from China and 10 from Europe, for a one-week gathering in Brussels on 14-21 September.
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  • Philea Forum 2025 – Power and Equality: A Balancing Act

    The Philea Forum 2025 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 2-5 June, exploring “Power and Equality: A Balancing Act”, hosted by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
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Philea nurtures a diverse and inclusive ecosystem of foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good. We help our members to get inspired, act together and achieve greater impact by sharing data and knowledge, exchanging best practices, connecting around common themes, engaging in policy work, and more.

Cross-cutting Themes

Climate

We are now well into the 10-year countdown to slow the warming of our planet. In this decisive decade, actions taken by markets, governments and citizens will determine liveability on our planet for the next century.

Democracy

Democracies across the world have faced unprecedented challenges in recent years ‒ from narrowing civic space, to curtailment of freedom and equality, to the spread of misinformation.

Equality

Philea members have pointed to striving for equality as an urgent issue that must be addressed by philanthropy now and in the coming years. Rising economic inequality has exacerbated virtually all of the problems philanthropy works on.
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Sarah Denselow
Principal: Effective Philanthropy, New Philanthropy Capital
Claire Gordon
Principal: Funder Evaluation and Learning, New Philanthropy Capital
Opinions – 19 February 2025

Can we build a trust-based and equitable approach to monitoring, evaluating and learning?

Many funders are seeking to work in more trust-based and equitable ways, and we saw many of these trends accelerate during Covid-19. But what does a trust-based and equitable approach really look like in practice, particularly for funder measurement, evaluation and learning?
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