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Communications Officer, The Social Change Nest

Opinions - 29 June 2026

Funders say they want social change…one funding path is still in the shadows

On the importance of fiscal hosting, why it matters for funders to clarify whether they accept fiscal hosts, and how clearer guidance could help more groups access funding.

Board Director, Forster Communications

Opinions - 25 June 2026

Navigating your reputation through an uncertain world

Grant funders face increased challenges to the reputations. This article explores some of the key challenges and what organisations can do to reduce the reputational risks they face.

Knowledge and Research Expert, European Community Foundation Initiative (ECFI)

Opinions - 23 June 2026

The real infrastructure of resilience is relational

What makes communities capable of navigating disruption? The 2024 floods in Poland, Spain and Romania showed how community foundations, rooted in place, draw on deep relational infrastructure to hold communities together during crises.

Director, Debating Europe

Opinions - 19 June 2026

Is Europe ageing fairly?

What happens to trust when younger generations feel the system is no longer working for them?

Creative Civic Strategist and Director, The People Act: Legislative Theatre

Professor, Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Opinions - 17 June 2026

Inclusive by design: Unheard emotions in democratic processes

Common democratic practices - from traditional elections to innovations like citizens' assemblies - are vital, yet they often suffer from a rational bias: privileging speech, reason and the idea of an objective truth.

Daniele Messina

Head of Programs, Fondazione Monte Paschi Siena

Head of Knowledge and Learning, Philea

Opinions - 15 June 2026

The impossibility of neutrality

Feminist, decolonial and social justice perspectives are clear: in unequal systems there is no neutral ground. Inaction sustains the status quo, and silence becomes part of power.

Giorgio Righetti

Director General, Acri

Opinions - 12 June 2026

Not just service providers: Why the third sector is a pillar of democracy

If we reduce the third sector to a service provider, we risk weakening one of the few spaces where citizens still actively experience democracy - not as a system, but as a practice.

Viktoriia Zablotska

Program Manager of "Philanthropy House", National Network of Local Philanthropy Development

Opinions - 9 June 2026

How Ukrainian society gives under full-scale invasion

Relying solely on international resources is not enough - building domestic capacity and broadening civic participation in philanthropy matter just as much.

Funds Adviser, Foundation Scotland

Opinions - 8 June 2026

Scotland’s Just Transition won’t happen without philanthropy – here’s why

Scotland’s just transition requires community led regeneration, equitable participation and bold philanthropy. Green funding could be the key to unlocking Scotland’s green future.

György Hámori

György Hámori

Program & Partnerships Manager, Roots and Wings Foundation

Opinions - 5 June 2026

Hungary’s turning point: Civic mobilisation beyond civil society

NGOs, grassroots and philanthropic organisations are increasingly labelled, contested and treated as political actors, not necessarily because their missions have changed, but because the environments around them have.

Director General, Fonds Paris 2050

Opinions - 1 June 2026

The city we want to live in by 2050: Using philanthropy to shape the future

The urban future is often painted in dark colours. Yet we choose to believe that we will still want to live in our cities by 2050 - not by resignation, but by choice. Getting there requires deep transformations in how we build, plan, and inhabit our cities - transformations that neither public authority nor the market can deliver alone.

PhD researcher, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, University of York

Opinions - 27 May 2026

The biodiversity blind spot: Why your endowment is your most powerful response to the nature crisis

New research maps the investment practices of foundations funding nature in the UK.

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