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News - 26 February 2025

Registration opens for Philea Forum 2025

Registration is now open for the Philea Forum 2025 “Power and Equality: A Balancing Act” in Lisbon from 2-5 June, hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
News - 14 February 2025

Ukraine’s Fight and the Global Stakes: Why Philanthropy Can’t Afford to Look Away

Foundations for Ukraine, in collaboration with Philea and the Council on Foundations, will host “Ukraine’s Fight and the Global Stakes: Why Philanthropy Can’t Afford to Look…
News - 14 February 2025

Assifero’s Future Chair initiative – What have we learned?

The first progress report on the Future Chair initiative highlights significant progress among signatory foundations in prioritising youth involvement in decision-making. However, long-term and comprehensive efforts are required to embed youth participation into organisational structures and foster intergenerational dialogue.
News - 13 February 2025

Civil Society Week 2025 

Civil Society Week 2025 will take place on 17-20 March around the theme of “Strengthening Cohesion and Participation in Polarised Societies” in Brussels. In recent years, overlapping…
News - 12 February 2025

2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What’s Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It

News - 11 February 2025

ERNOP and Philea launch call for experts for ERNOP Research Notes on justice philanthropy

Philea and the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) are launching a call for experts to contribute to a special issue of ERNOP Research Notes on…
News - 3 February 2025

BLIS Narrative Research Webinar – Fabric of Repair

The BLIS Collective will host a BLIS Narrative Research Webinar on the “Fabric of Repair” online on 19 February. This session will…
News - 3 February 2025

EDGE Conference 2025 – From Pledge to Action: Accountability in Philanthropy

The EDGE Conference 2025 “From Pledge to Action: Accountability in Philanthropy” will take place in Bogota, Colombia on 28-30 April. The EDGE 2025 conference will be…
News - 30 January 2025

Participants of ERSTE Foundation NGO Academy interrogated by authorities in Belgrade

Participants attending a capacity building workshop of the NGO Academy in Belgrade were interrogated by the Serbian authorities and then banned from Serbia as a “security…
News - 27 January 2025

Building bridges not walls: Philanthropy and policy join forces

We’ve closed the chapter on 2024, and opened a new one, filled so far with pages of hope, of goals and ambitions we aim to act upon in the 12 months ahead.