Extreme heat disproportionately impacts mental health, particularly for vulnerable groups. Philanthropy can catalyse change by funding community-outreach, advocacy, resilient mental health systems and the research behind it.

Public-benefit foundations are important societal actors. How they are governed is therefore of legitimate public interest: Who makes major decisions for the foundation? Who ensures that these decisions comply…

Over the past two years, discussions across Europe involving foundations, civil society organisations and EU institutions have increasingly converged around a shared conclusion: the next European Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) is more than a negotiation over funding. It is a broader reorganisation of how Europe intends to pursue its priorities, engage stakeholders and organise its action over the next decade.

Over a decade of supporting women from the global majority, GirlDreamer’s co-founders have found that joy and radical optimism, something often overlooked in philanthropy, can be one of the most effective ways to keep organising sustainably in a hostile political climate.