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News - 6 February 2020

Press release: EFC launches call for input for latest mapping of European environmental funding

Brussels, 5 February 2019 – The European Foundation Centre’s European Environmental Funders Group is launching a call for input for the fifth edition of its environmental funding mapping, building…

News - 5 February 2020

Former Chair of Grantmakers East Forum, Haki Abazi is appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo

A former Chair of the EFC’s Grantmakers East Forum, Haki Abazi has been appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo and Minister of European Integration. A…

News - 5 February 2020

Call for input for the 5th EFC mapping of ”Environmental Funding by European Foundations”

Working on the environment? The EFC needs your input for the 5th edition of the mapping ”Environmental Funding by European Foundations” due to be published this year. This mapping of…

News - 5 February 2020

Italy celebrates 5th National Day Against Food Waste

On 5 February Italy is holding its 5th National Day Against Food Waste, established by the Italian Ministry of the Environment in partnership with the Spreco Zero (Zero Waste) campaign…

News - 5 February 2020

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and ”la Caixa” launch joint fund for arts and social inclusion in Portugal

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and ”la Caixa” have launched the PARTIS & Art for Change programme, a new joint initiative worth €1.5…

News - 4 February 2020

Wellcome Trust release statement urging for increased sharing of research data and findings related the novel coronavirus outbreak

The Wellcome Trust has released a statement calling on researchers, journals and funders to ensure that research findings and data relevant to the novel coronavirus (nCoV)…

News - 3 February 2020

Confronting disinformation, disintegration and the erosion of democracy with Eurozine

The links between disinformation and democracy are in no way, shape or form a new phenomenon, as highlighted by the EFC’s Gerry Salole when opening up a recent joint workshop,…

News - 2 February 2020

Philanthropy Advocacy raises awareness around the new money laundering and terrorism financing policy

The Philanthropy Advocacy (DAFNE and EFC) team organised in early 2020 a series of training’s and information sessions on how philanthropy can engage around money laundering and terrorism financing policies.

News - 31 January 2020

Sign the statement: Brexit and a cultural way forward, together

Collaborations in Europe have been through turbulent times before; Europe has overcome many severe crises and has bridged deep divisions in the past. And today, now that United Kingdom’s withdrawal…

News - 30 January 2020

Apply for the new European Social Catalyst Fund

The new European Social Catalyst Fund is designed to have significant impact on some of Europe’s most pressing social challenges.

News - 30 January 2020

PEX joins the dots and amplifies impact

PEXforum2020, in Madrid, was a unique European gathering of 130 people from 41 philanthropy networks. To bring such a collection of knowledge and experience together, to put faces to names, to witness almost the entire support ecosystem in one space, and to learn more about our respective contributions to the philanthropy field would have been a successful outcome in itself. The impact, however, was much greater than the sum of the many and diverse individual parts.

News - 30 January 2020

“Philanthropy in the digital age”

“Philanthropy in the digital age” is an ERSTE Foundation Talk Europe! video with Lucy Bernholz “First we have to figure out how to make technology work for our…

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