Good practice - 16 April 2024 Nordea-fonden – Feeling the Heat Climate change is already impacting the people, places and causes that foundations care about. Still, for a variety of reasons, philanthropy practitioners often struggle to translate their awareness and…
Opinion - 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’.
Opinion - 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.
Opinion - 15 January 2024 Funding climate storytelling: Behind the scenes of BBC StoryWorks’ ‘What the Ocean Reveals About Us’ This six-minute film 'What the Ocean Reveals About Us', produced by BBC StoryWorks for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, explores the climate-health nexus to highlight humanity’s dependence on and deep connection to the ocean, and why healing the ocean is so important.
Opinion - 4 December 2023 Working in ways that meet the complexity of this time Earlier this year a group of foundations who make up the Foundation 3.0 initiative met in Amsterdam for their yearly Strategic Round Table. It’s an opportunity for peer learning across European foundations who are focussed on systemic change. In 2023 the theme was ‘Adopting cross-cutting perspectives to increase impact’.
Event - 11 October 2023 International Society for Third Sector Research Conference 2024 The International Society for Third Sector Research Conference 2024 will take place on 16-19 July 2024 in Antwerp, Belgium. Over the last decade, the world has…
Opinion - 3 July 2023 Future Chair – tomorrow starts today There comes a time when individuals and organisations come to realise that they have to change themselves if they want to change the world. Inner transformation can be hard, uncomfortable work but also fulfilling and rewarding. It is not only the "what" that matters here, but the "how" and "why".
News - 2 March 2023 Registration open for Philea Forum 2023 Registration is now open for the Philea Forum 2023 “A New Compass for Europe: Forged in Crisis, Forward in Hope” in Šibenik from 23 – 25 May, hosted by the…
Opinion - 6 February 2023 Call to action: Challenging foundations to keep African women and girls in science Africa produces the largest proportion of female STEM graduates compared to other continents, and yet very few of them enter or remain in a STEM career. An evidence-based solution for foundations to adopt an effective funding culture for retaining these women and girls in STEM-related careers might just be the answer.
Opinion - 12 January 2023 Systems change and the future of philanthropy How can foundations and philanthropic organisations apply a systems change lens to their work, and what is the unique role of philanthropy in bringing about systemic change? Kyrill Hartog and…
Opinion - 12 January 2023 Leveraging the work of infrastructure organisations towards regenerative futures The next few years are a crucial moment in human history for mitigating the polycrisis. This scientifically backed timeframe has to be understood as a turning point for WHERE philanthropy is heading and HOW to coordinate the work of infrastructure organisations towards regenerative futures. 10x100 is an organising mode for agile transformation, which aims to combine short-term crisis responses with long-term systemic change.
News - 4 January 2023 Philea Forum 2023: Extended deadline for session proposals As we understand that the holiday season can be a busy period and want to ensure that everyone has sufficient time to prepare, we extended the deadline for submitting…