Michael Feigelson Opinions - 6 July 2016 The Beginning of Life The Beginning of Life documents the lives of young children and their families across the world to help shine a light on the significance of the early…
Stefania Coni Opinions - 28 June 2016 Guess who’s coming to dinner? A cultural integration project What is the project “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” The project, promoted and supported by Fondazione CRT, was created by the Rete Italiana di Cultura Popolare (Italian Network of Folk…
Tine Wickers Opinions - 21 June 2016 Football Fitness gets more people moving Increasing the number of physically active adults in Denmark Nordea-fonden is a Danish commercial foundation that allocates funds from its returns and capital to support non-profit, public and charitable purposes.
Jenny Hodgson Opinions - 14 June 2016 Community Philanthropy: it’s a thing, and you need to know about it This post originally appeared on the Oxfam “From Poverty to Power” blog on 2 June. It’s almost always the same argument. Or excuse. Governments joining the…
Juliette Decoster Opinions - 6 June 2016 Protecting whistleblowers and whistleblowing, a challenge for democracy The Panama papers affair, just like with the previous Lux leaks or Snowden revelations, once again confirm the importance of the role of whistleblowers in defending public interest. Whistleblowers are…
Ana José Varela-González Opinions - 21 March 2016 On Galicia’s Way of St. James: A Formula for Development via Technology Transfer This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post on 8 March 2016 Galicia is a peripheral region in the north-west of Spain, a coastal area and the destination…
Opinions - 14 March 2016 What does it mean to be a foundation nowadays? Part II Part Two: There is nothing so stable as change In this series of blogs, I’m considering what it means to be a European foundation today: what are the…
Opinions - 17 February 2016 What does it mean to be a foundation nowadays? Part I Part one: On diversity, adaptability and the art of acupuncture European foundations can be encapsulated in one word: diversity. They have diverse characteristics in terms of their origin, focus, size,…
Elizabeth O’Connor Opinions - 17 February 2016 The European Climate Foundation’s monitoring and evaluation journey “Why does the European Climate Foundation (ECF) monitor and evaluate?” This was the question that started the ECF’s M&E journey. The answers include: to help see where we are going,…
Joanna Mikulski Opinions - 17 February 2016 It’s time for philanthropy to demand more evidence-informed communications Do you feel like your organisation’s communications efforts are too often about “sending stuff out into the ether”? If so, you’re not alone. I recently heard this sentiment expressed during…
Andrew Chapman Opinions - 3 February 2016 The investment challenges faced by small and medium-sized foundations Small and medium-sized foundations (with assets, say, below 600 million euros) face a particular set of issues in maximising their investment returns while minimising their investment risks. Three obvious difficulties…
Nicolas Krausz Opinions - 28 January 2016 The Commons as a path for philanthropy to catalyse system change In its quest to promote deep progressive change within society, philanthropy is often blamed for addressing the symptoms rather than the roots of problems. In other words, we seem to…
