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Mediterranean Children’s Movement: Peace Conference 2026 – Connected by Sea for Peace
The Mediterranean Children’s Movement will host the Peace Conference 2026 under the theme of “Connected by Sea for Peace” on 25-29 November in Valetta.
From Ukraine: A new model for supporting civil society under stress
As philanthropy seeks more effective ways to support local actors in complex crises, Ukraine offers valuable lessons. Emerging experience suggests that combining organisational strengthening with care, reflection and flexible accompaniment can help local organisations sustain agency, resilience and impact when conventional support models reach their limits.
The real infrastructure of resilience is relational
What makes communities capable of navigating disruption? The 2024 floods in Poland, Spain and Romania showed how community foundations, rooted in place, draw on deep relational infrastructure to hold communities together during crises.
Leaders Convening on Long-Term Governance and Democracy in Europe
Philea, the Belgian Federation of Philanthropic Foundations and the School of International Futures (SOIF) will host “Leaders Convening on Long-Term Governance and…
How Ukrainian society gives under full-scale invasion
Relying solely on international resources is not enough - building domestic capacity and broadening civic participation in philanthropy matter just as much.
Hungary’s turning point: Civic mobilisation beyond civil society
NGOs, grassroots and philanthropic organisations are increasingly labelled, contested and treated as political actors, not necessarily because their missions have changed, but because the environments around them have.
The city we want to live in by 2050: Using philanthropy to shape the future
The urban future is often painted in dark colours. Yet we choose to believe that we will still want to live in our cities by 2050 - not by resignation, but by choice. Getting there requires deep transformations in how we build, plan, and inhabit our cities - transformations that neither public authority nor the market can deliver alone.
Dear Generations of the Future
We hope this message finds you well. In 2026 we begin so many messages this way that it’s almost lost its meaning, but in this case, we really…
The money is there. The question is why it is not moving
Philanthropy does not have a capital shortage. It has a deployment problem. With more than $251.5 billion held in donor advised funds while civil society organisations collapse for lack of operating support, the sector faces an uncomfortable question: what is the money waiting for?