The question is no longer whether to invest in youth mental health, but how to invest more effectively. Youth mental health is foundational to resilient societies. When addressed early and strategically, it improves life trajectories, strengthens families and communities and reduces long-term social and economic costs.

The world faces a €3.5 trillion annual gap in financing to achieve the SDGs. Clearly, philanthropy alone cannot come close to bridging this gap, but what it can do is use its capital more effectively. Impact investing – on both the endowment and programme sides – is key to realising this ambition.

As philanthropy seeks more effective ways to support local actors in complex crises, Ukraine offers valuable lessons. Emerging experience suggests that combining organisational strengthening with care, reflection and flexible accompaniment can help local organisations sustain agency, resilience and impact when conventional support models reach their limits.

On the importance of fiscal hosting, why it matters for funders to clarify whether they accept fiscal hosts, and how clearer guidance could help more groups access funding.