Media plurality gives a voice to minorities, free-thinkers and marginalised groups, but the time has come to explore the need for a plurality of capital that invests in this key democratic infrastructure. Patrice Schneider shares the story of Plūrālis, a Media Development Investment Fund that has partnered with a number of European foundations, news media companies and impact investors to provide independent media companies access to the right capital. Read More
Sabancı Foundation carries out international work in order to follow global approaches in the field of civil society and philanthropy and to create dialogue opportunities between Turkey and other countries. In this regard, every year since 2013, the foundation has actively participated in the Zero Project… Read More
Katarzyna Słubik, President of the Board of the Polish Civil Society Association for Legal Intervention, explains the ongoing humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border and highlights how the Polish civil society is responding to the needs of migrants and refugees. Read More
In the film industry, Italian dubbing is universally recognised as the best in the world. In recent years, new technologies have reduced the size of the equipment, making it possible to have mobile workstations that can be adapted to the most varied needs. In 2011 the project’s initial idea was… Read More
The Georgian Down Syndrome Association (GDSA) was founded four years ago to help young mothers of children with Down Syndrome who found themselves virtually alone and without any peer or professional support that would have helped them to deal with the initial challenges and to learn about the ways in… Read More
Zero Project The Essl Foundation, a charitable foundation from Austria, launched the Zero Project in 2011. Since then, the project has identified more than 700 good practices of inclusion of persons with disabilities based on innovation, impact, and scalability. These practices have been analysed, communicated, and connected to policymakers and… Read More
The time for what ifs is decidedly over – every foundation needs to care about the climate crisis, because everything you hold dear and do is impacted by and impacts the future of humanity and our planet. Now is the time to move climate funding out of its environmental silo. Read More
Disability inclusion matters in all areas of life. It is guaranteed by human rights treaties – the most important being the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – and is a deciding factor in meeting global and national development goals. Yet the road to inclusion can seem… Read More
Cast your mind back to December 2019, before you had to queue for shops; before leaving your house to visit family and friends became illegal; and before words like lockdown, self-isolation, quarantine and even pandemic were part of common parlance. That was a great world, that’s the world we are… Read More
I was 16 when I saw the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and became acutely aware of the severity and urgency of the climate crisis. When choosing where I wanted to study for university, I chose Middlebury College, a small liberal arts college in Vermont because of its reputation… Read More
