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Opinion - 14 November 2024

Beyond trust: How philanthropy should move towards more flexible funding to maximise impact

Foundations support development in many ways. What they fund and support is important. But how they provide this support is critical to achieving impact. In recent years, philanthropy has increasingly…

Opinion - 16 September 2024

Why philanthropy must champion clean energy to unlock climate adaptation

The global fight against climate change has rightfully focused much of its energy transition efforts on decarbonisation, especially in high-consumption markets like the US, the European Union and the UK.

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…

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