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Opinions - 11 June 2019

Challenges in managing MAVA’s final chapter

MAVA is reaching the half way point on its final strategy covering 2016-2022. As we enter our final chapter, there are some inherent challenges any foundation in such a situation…

Anna Talasniemi

Opinions - 6 June 2019

Towards listening and learning

My first concrete contact with the EFC occurred six years ago when I attended their Annual Conference and General Assembly in Copenhagen in 2013. At that point, I had been…

Carola Carazzone

Opinions - 5 June 2019

Beyond membership, impact change

In 1989, when the Berlin wall fell – and the EFC was created – I was 16. I belong to the first generation of Italian young people who became massively…

Göran Blomqvist

Opinions - 4 June 2019

Capacity building – it’s in the EFC’s DNA

Happy 30th Birthday EFC! Thirty years have passed since the start. Any signs of a 30-year crisis?? You know, doubts about the past, questions about the future, reflections on your…

Opinions - 3 June 2019

Philanthropy – past, present and future

A version of this blog was published in the UK in April 2019 It may be a bit of a cliché to suggest that the world moves a…

Opinions - 29 May 2019

Championing collaboration in an era of isolation

In February 2019, hundreds of diplomats, heads of state, cabinet ministers, parliamentarians, and high-ranking military officers gathered in Germany to discuss the fractured state of geopolitics and the daunting question…

Opinions - 28 May 2019

30 years, three remarks, and one fantastic gift

At the EFC’s Annual General Assembly and Conference 2019, in Paris, Körber-Stiftung announced that they will gift their share of Philanthropy House to the EFC,…

Christopher Harris

Opinions - 28 May 2019

A time to go up a level (or change the game itself)?

I was asked to offer some reflections about what the 30th anniversary of the EFC represents. On the one hand, while I have worked in philanthropy for over 25 years,…

Marjorie Craig Benton

Opinions - 27 May 2019

A call for a transatlantic retreat on the State of Philanthropy

I recently travelled to Brussels to see my long-time friends Gerry Salole and Rien van Gendt at the EFC. As usual, we spoke about the status of philanthropy in Europe…

Alexandra Guentzer

Opinions - 24 May 2019

We are the audience

This sentence may seem provocative or absurd. However, communications experts are sometimes perceived as being «they»: They have written something; they have published something; they have posted something. They versus…

Opinions - 23 May 2019

Reflection is important, projection is critical

A sector of apples and oranges… and the odd banana The philanthropic sector has been growing at a rapid pace right across Europe for at least two decades. Not…

Luc Tayart de Borms

Opinions - 22 May 2019

Moving toward EFC 3.0

This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the EFC. There is indeed much to celebrate: The EFC is the cornerstone founding institution of philanthropy and social investment infrastructure in…

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