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News - 4 February 2019

Call to action from the European Cultural Foundation – ”Democracy Needs Imagination”

The European Cultural Foundation are launching a call to action to fund daring, creative, cultural actions in the run up to the European elections, titled ”Democracy Needs Imagination.” The…
News - 23 January 2019

Now is the perfect time for a Citizens’ Assembly

The Community Foundation for Northern Ireland has a long track record of supporting innovative community initiatives. Since 1979, the Foundation has awarded over £100 million in grants to…
News - 9 January 2019

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund President has penned an open letter on division, diversity and democracy in the US.

The President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Stephen Heintz has penned an open letter on division, diversity and democracy in the USA. The letter, published in the …
News - 30 August 2018

The Development Set and its role in perpetuating poverty

‘Although we move with the better classes, our thoughts are always with the masses.’ (Ross Coggins, 1976) In 1976, an exasperated development worker, Ross Coggins, attending his umpteenth futile meeting to discuss…
News - 9 July 2018

Can foundations contribute to social cohesion in Europe?

The following is a speech made by Dr Rien van Gendt during the Humanity in Action International Conference, which took place in Strasbourg from 5-8 July 2018: I want to…
News - 21 February 2018

A missed opportunity to rebuild Europe on new foundations through a citizen foundational process

“Our societies, while deploring the crisis in representative democracy, are still finding it difficult to devise true citizen debating processes and even more difficult to admit that the revival of…
News - 6 February 2018

Inspiring young people and creating hope for the future in Northern Kenya

“If I hadn’t joined a youth group, I myself may have joined al-Shabaab,” explained Noor Dahir, the charismatic Director of a Lamu Island-based youth group Kiunga Youth Bunge Initiative. Lamu Island, known for…
News - 16 January 2018

Enlarging the Space for European Philanthropy (2018)

News - 5 December 2017

It’s time for human rights organisations to harness the power of local giving – and for funders to support them to do so

Individual giving has power. Consider the huge outpouring of donations to organisations such as the American Civil Liberties Union that followed Donald Trump’s executive ban on seven Muslim-majority countries in…
News - 15 November 2017

When summer did not follow the spring

Over a few months in 2012, a question came up among Christian Aid’s staff in Africa reflecting on the impact of the ‘Arab Springs’: Will a summer or a winter follow…