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Press Release - 24 March 2025

PEX announces new collective governance model to better harness collaboration within the philanthropy infrastructure community

Brussels, 24 March 2025 PEX, a network of philanthropy infrastructure organisations, transitions to a new collective governance model stewarded by Assifero (Italy), ECFI (Europe), iac Berlin (Germany), INSPIRE (Romania) and…

News - 20 March 2025

Impact Europe launch “European Catalytic Grantmaking Survey 2025”

Impact Europe has launched the “European Catalytic Grantmaking Survey 2025” seeking to explore the concept of catalytic grantmaking. Catalytic grantmaking is an approach that supports impact…

News - 27 February 2025

Philea deeply concerned by police investigations of CSOs in Serbia

Philea has been informed by our Serbian members that on the morning of 25 February the country’s Criminal Police Administration entered the premises of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), including the NGO Civic Initiative and TRAG Foundation, to carry out investigations.

News - 26 February 2025

Registration opens for Philea Forum 2025

Registration is now open for the Philea Forum 2025 “Power and Equality: A Balancing Act” in Lisbon from 2-5 June, hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

News - 19 February 2025

European Commission 2025 work programme promises a European Civil Society Strategy

In a positive development for European civil society, the European Commission has announced that it will publish a European Civil Society Strategy in the third quarter…

News - 17 February 2025

Applications open for the Philanthropic Leadership Platform: China-Europe 2025

Applications are now open for the Philanthropic Leadership Platform: China-Europe, organised in partnership with the China Foundation Forum and with support from…

News - 12 February 2025

Philea publishes “2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What’s Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It” exploring democratic backsliding, its causes and potential solutions

Philea has published “2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What’s Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It”, an in-depth explainer, commissioned by the Democracy Network,…

News - 11 February 2025

ERNOP and Philea launch call for experts for ERNOP Research Notes on justice philanthropy

Philea and the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) are launching a call for experts to contribute to a special issue of ERNOP Research Notes on…

News - 3 February 2025

Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union: What’s in it for philanthropy

At the beginning of 2025, Poland took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the upcoming six months. With a shifting political landscape and renewed focus…

News - 31 January 2025

Upcoming European Parliament reports question EU funding for NGOs that engage in advocacy

The EU institutions, most notably the European Parliament, but also the European Commission and the European Court of Auditors, are discussing the different contexts surrounding EU funding for civil society…

News - 30 January 2025

EU Member States urged to remove barriers to cross-border philanthropy before November 2025 deadline

EU Member States are under increasing pressure to remove barriers to cross-border philanthropy as the deadline to implement the Council recommendation on developing social economy framework conditions approaches in November…

News - 30 January 2025

Participants of ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy interrogated by authorities in Belgrade

Participants attending a capacity building workshop of the NGO Academy in Belgrade were interrogated by the Serbian authorities and then banned from Serbia as a “security…

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