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News - 19 January 2022

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian grants €1.1 million to social organisations affected by Covid-19 pandemic

The Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian has approved €1.1 million worth of grants to support social organisations affected by the pandemic in order to support their resilience and…
News - 22 November 2021

Driving impact for persons with disabilities – Institutionalising change

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…
News - 10 November 2021

Call for session proposals for 2022 European Philanthropy Conference

The call for proposals is now closed. The night is darkest just before the dawn. Against the backdrop of the greatest crisis faced since World…
News - 4 November 2021

Unseen People, Invisible Viruses and Blind States: Protecting Stateless Peoples as we Learn to Live with COVID-19

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,…
News - 25 October 2021

Press release: Time is running out: Europe’s philanthropy sector needs imagination, boldness and inclusion to unleash its full potential

Vienna, 22 October 2021 – The annual conference of the European Foundation Centre (EFC) came to a successful close this week. For three days, discussions among around 400 representatives of…
News - 7 September 2021

How are EFC members responding to the situation in Afghanistan?

The people of Afghanistan are facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis brought about by political turmoil and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Here we will provide an overview of how…
News - 3 September 2021

Dafne: Health & climate peer group session

Dafne, in collaboration with Active Philanthropy and Stiftung Mercator, will host the first meeting of a new peer group focusing on…
News - 2 September 2021

EFC publishes “Insights on how the work of EFC members changed in 2020”

At the beginning of 2021, following a challenging year of transformation seen across the globe, the EFC surveyed the Steering Committee members of its Thematic Networks to get an…
News - 2 September 2021

IMPULSE

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…
News - 1 September 2021

Insights on how the work of EFC members changed in 2020: March 2021 (2021)