PEX Projects

explores how philanthropy infrastructure organisations could be catalysts of change and generate collective impact both within their constituencies and by acting together.

aims to maintain and develop the enabling environment for philanthropy across Europe.

is an online cooperation platform for civil society, connecting local, national and European organisations.

focuses on issues including how to evolve the current mainstream funding practice (mainly short-term and project-restricted); core-support, trust-based philanthropy, participatory grantmaking and system change funding.

aims to frame the debate on gender and diversity with the aim to contribute to a gender-balanced and more diverse sector in Europe.

aims to explore and then prototype new ideas that no single foundation or network would or could approach on its own.

brings together national, European and thematic philanthropy networks committed to support their foundation members to live up to the climate challenge.

provides a self-assessment framework for foundations around five criteria: commitment, public utility, relevance, performance and accountability. This forms a crucial element in addressing the legitimacy question philanthropy is exposed to regularly.

facilitates deep reflection, learning and exchange around how to install the collaborative DNA needed for creating transformational change. Searching for the X-factor within PEX and beyond.

focuses on the roots of racial injustice in Europe, and considering both programmatic and internal implications for philanthropy.

brings together stakeholders in the sector to challenge the status quo and ask questions of the philanthropy sector