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…
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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…
EFC European Foundation Financial and Investment Officers Group Autumn Meeting 2019
The European Foundation Financial and Investment Officers Group (EFFIO) Autumn Meeting 2019 will take place in Philanthropy House, Brussels on the 9-11 October. The meeting takes place at…
Let’s play a new European tune
New promise Thirty years ago, European philanthropy stood on the brink of new promise. The formation of the EFC on 9 November 1989 – the same day that the Berlin…
Researchers and practitioners explore ways to ease cross-border philanthropy in Europe
At a pre-conference event ahead of the 9th International Research Conference of the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) a group of researchers and practitioners came…
Philanthropy for the Twenty-first Century
When in the early 1980s I became part of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH), then in 1986 its General Director, I had nearly 20…
EFC Chair Massimo Lapucci and other members to speak at the UN event ”Philanthropy & the SDGs”
The EFC’s Chair, Massimo Lapucci, will be speaking at the UN event ”Philanthropy & the SDGs” special event taking place in New York on the 16 July, alongside representatives…
Joan Weinstein to be new director of the Getty Foundation
Joan Weinstein has been announced as the new director of the Getty Foundation, moving on from her previous position as deputy director, and acting director. Weinstein…
