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News - 15 September 2019

Philanthropy Prizes (2019)

News - 12 September 2019

European Cultural Foundation launch second round of Democracy Needs Imagination grants call

The European Cultural Foundation is launching a second round of grants calls for the Democracy Needs Imagination programme, following the…
News - 23 August 2019

Freedom – the Baltic way

“All injustice and oppression eventually come to an end. The spirit of freedom is stronger than any slavery. Sooner or later, any lies will be illuminated by the truth. Let’s…
News - 29 July 2019

Wake up, philanthropy!

Anyone who has ever been to Augsburg knows that it has a city within the city. I mean the Fuggerei, the oldest existing social settlement in the world. Here, surrounded…
News - 24 July 2019

The writing is on the wall

I read all the stories that were submitted to the EFC for our 30th anniversary blogs with delight.  I am thrilled at the richness and sheer diversity of storytelling and…
News - 22 July 2019

Verena Ringler leads call for an #EUCitizenCommissioner

The European strategy expert, and proposed candidate for Austrian EU Commissioner by opposition party NEOS, Verena Ringler, has led a call for an EU Citizen Commissioner, to support citizen relations…
News - 24 June 2019

Philanthropy is a guest at other people’s tables … but is it time to play musical chairs?

Are we doing enough? And are we doing enough of the right thing? Writing this blog, I began to reflect on the passage of time – how much changes, how…
News - 14 June 2019

Mo Ibrahim Foundation issue a statement on the massacre in Khartoum

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has issued a statement on the massacre in Khartoum expressing its deep concern on the situation in Sudan. The foundation was established…
News - 7 June 2019

Webinar – ”Citizen Lobbying & Advocacy”

Citizens for Europe are organising a webinar on ”Citizen Lobbying & Advocacy”, in cooperation with The Good Lobby,…
News - 22 May 2019

Opening Plenary Paris 2019 – Liberté

‘’Are you a free man?’’ asked Laurence de Nervaux, the moderator of the Opening Plenary, to Plantu, the French cartoonist who had arrived at the conference with a bodyguard, a…