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General Manager, VIA Don Bosco Belgium & The Netherlands

Opinions - 2 April 2024

Striving for quality education amidst rising challenges

With improved enrolment rates, schools face their next challenge: increasing quality to let students achieve their full potential. To achieve this, we need to move to a ‘whole school approach’.

Head of Research and Knowledge Development, Philea

Stefanos Oikonomou

Head of Programmes – Peer-Exchanges, Philea

Opinions - 20 March 2024

Understanding the power play in MEL

The way we understand, measure, and evaluate impact is deeply intertwined with power, and acknowledging this fact is the first step toward redressing power asymmetries.

Co-project lead, Education and Next Generation program, Bertelsmann Stiftung

Opinions - 11 March 2024

The novel way of the entrepreneur: How young people change entrepreneurship and what they need to flourish

Entrepreneurial landscapes evolve with each generation. We are thus witnessing a significant shift today shaped by the emerging Generation Z (or Gen Z) workforce. With their ascent into the en-trepreneurial sphere, understanding and integrating their unique values and approaches toward the sustainable and digital transition is critically important.

Chief Executive, Barrow Cadbury Trust

Opinions - 28 February 2024

Funding for systems change: The story of Barrow Cadbury Trust’s Transition to Adulthood Campaign

Increasingly, foundations are showing an interest in systems change work as a means of achieving greater impact when tackling intractable issues.

Michal Blaszczyk

Digital Communications Manager, Clean Air Fund

Opinions - 21 February 2024

Visualising climate justice: Representing the communities hit hardest by air pollution

Marginalised groups are often disproportionately affected by the climate crisis and air pollution. Philanthropies can support equitable representation of climate and social justice issues through photography that authentically portrays the people hit hardest by dirty air.

Stefaan Verhulst

Co-Founder, The GovLab and The Data Tank, and Research Professor, New York University

Opinions - 19 February 2024

Data as a catalyst for philanthropy

Philanthropic organisations must consider how to become more innovative, responsive, and effective in the digital era. Here are five steps toward data-driven philanthropy.

Alberto Anfossi

Secretary General, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

Delphine Moralis

Chief Executive Officer, Philea

Opinions - 15 February 2024

Data science, AI and data philanthropy in foundations – on the path to maturity

Embracing data-driven philanthropy is not optional: it is of strategic importance to enhance the sector’s impact.

Natalia Kiryttopoulou

Lead for Global Assessment and Advisory Services, Center for Effective Philanthropy

Opinions - 13 February 2024

Reimagining philanthropy: Learning from the MacKenzie Scott experiment

MacKenzie Scott’s distinctive approach to giving is an ongoing experiment, one that stands out as an outlier in the world of philanthropy. Despite its unique nature, Scott’s method offers invaluable…

Marion Schaefer

Managing Director, Fondation CHANEL, France & Europe, and Chair of the Alliance

Jennifer Clarke

Director of Programmes and Grants, Bodossaki Foundation

Opinions - 8 February 2024

Achieving gender equality through collective and targeted funding

While women in Europe still enjoy significant freedoms, there is much work to be done to protect those gains and ensure we achieve full gender equality. The lack of economic inclusion of women and gender non-conforming people is a persistent issue.

Coordinating Director, ECFI

Opinions - 5 February 2024

Scenario thinking in action

Taking time, even if it is hypothetical and playful, to engage in scenario thinking can help us become unstuck. It can lift us out of the here and now and, and by exploring a range of scenarios, can open minds and stimulate creative and innovative thinking.

Anna-Marie Harling

Managing Director, Philanthropic Collaboration, Co-Impact

Opinions - 31 January 2024

Complex challenges require a collaborative response

As humanity evolves and develops, the world is becoming more interconnected. There is an interlinked set of trends that governs our shared reality. From population growth and urbanisation to climate change and environmental degradation, these complexities predict and influence one another, sometimes even blending into each other. They are not only intersecting across issues but also geographies – pulling everyone closer together.

Team Leader, Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Opinions - 25 January 2024

Complex dynamics don’t need to have complex causes

Peter Turchin, complexity scientist and author of “The End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration” discusses the causes of crises past and present, and the importance of better forecasting them in the future.

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