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
If you were to evaluate the success of initiatives to support philanthropy, the Grantmakers East Forum (GEF) would score very highly. Results of a review being undertaken by the Steering Committee show that GEF has played a central role in building the philanthropic sector in Central and Eastern Europe and… Read More
In July 2021 the Chiesi Foundation funded and supported, IMPULSE – Improving Quality and Use of Newborn Indicators. IMPULSE is a two-phase research project led by the consortium of Burlo Garofalo WHO Collaborating Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and CUAMM Doctors with Africa and developed in collaboration… Read More
This blog was first posted on Alliance on 19 June When commenting on the ERNOP Science and Society Seminar presentation of Giedre Lidelkyte Huber (Geneva Centre for Philanthropy) of key findings from the recent in-depth OECD report, I very… Read More
At the beginning of March, the European Commission (EC) adopted the new Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030[1], which provides the roadmap for both the EU and Member States to progress on all areas of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with… Read More