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Community philanthropy, or what it means to be a good neighbour in times of war

Despite not being trained for it, when your house is on fire your neighbours are the closest and fastest help available.

Hanna Stähle

Philea

Opinions - 24 March 2022

Human lives vs. state interests: Why we need a feminist foreign policy to ensure lasting peace and stability

“Sometimes I feel afraid, but my work gives me strength. I want to stay in Ukraine and support civil society in the best possible ways,” says Eugenia Mazurenko, CEO of…

Lourdes Márquez

Social and International Relations, Fundación ONCE

Opinions - 9 March 2022

Betwixt and between: Banking foundations bridging legacy and better futures, societal and market forces

In 2021 the EFC co-organised a couple of peer exchanges together with Nordea-Fonden to create a space for foundations of banking origin to share experiences, challenges,…

Biray Bensu De Meulemeester

Philea

Opinions - 28 January 2022

280 – 217 – 01.07

The title of this article consists of numbers ‒ simple numbers, however, with deeper and sadder meanings. According to the annual report published by a women’s…

Annie Hillar

Co-Director, Gender Funders CoLab

Debora Guidetti

Senior European Programme Manager, Ariadne – European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights

Opinions - 28 January 2022

The Human Rights Grantmaking Principles: a tool to transform philanthropy

As a field, human rights funding aims to move money to those working to protect and advance human rights. Yet, among funders who share that value, funding practices do not…

Giedre Lideikyte-Huber

Senior Lecturer, Geneva Centre for Philanthropy

Opinions - 28 January 2022

Unexpected parallels between philanthropy and taxation

At first sight, taxation and philanthropy have little in common. Whereas taxation is a coercive mechanism, through which states levy revenue and then reallocate it according their policy objectives, philanthropy…

André Wilkens

Director, European Cultural Foundation

Opinions - 28 January 2022

The Future Is Now

Crises times are also times of possibilities, invention and opportunities. Solutions to problems which would often take years can now be taken in days. Such as the Eurobond funded EU Recovery plan. How will European philanthropy use the opportunities of our times to contribute to a better Europe?

Javier Nadal

President, AEF

Opinions - 20 January 2022

Time for Philanthropy

The president of the AEF, Javier Nadal, writes about the 5th edition of "Demos, Forum of Foundations and Civil Society", the reference event in Spain for the foundation sector that this year brought together professionals from all spheres to promote new approaches to respond to the most urgent needs of today's society.

Rana Kotan

TUSEV

Suzana Djordjevic

Hemofarm Foundation I Serbian Philanthropy Forum

Opinions - 15 December 2021

Reflections of 2021 and Hopes for 2022

2021 was quite an unusual year. The remarkable speed of COVID-19 vaccine development was not followed by the same speed of healing. In fact, more people died from the coronavirus…

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Opinions

Community philanthropy, or what it means to be a good neighbour in times of war

Human lives vs. state interests: Why we need a feminist foreign policy to ensure lasting peace and stability

The value of Social Economy

Philanthropy in the EU: Giving Europe a brighter future, together

Thematic Networks: reshaping ambitions, rethinking collaboration

Betwixt and between: Banking foundations bridging legacy and better futures, societal and market forces

280 – 217 – 01.07

The Human Rights Grantmaking Principles: a tool to transform philanthropy

Unexpected parallels between philanthropy and taxation

The Future Is Now

Time for Philanthropy

Reflections of 2021 and Hopes for 2022