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News - 30 September 2019

EFC AGA and Conference 2020 trailer wins Cannes Corporate award

  Allegrofilm and ERSTE Stiftung have won an award for the trailer to the EFC AGA and Conference 2020 ”Foundations…
News - 19 September 2019

Next exhibition to visit Philanthropy House announced – SIGNs of CHANGE by SIGN Network

  The next exhibition to be displayed in Philanthropy House will be SIGNs of CHANGE by the SIGN Network, created in celebration of their…
News - 18 September 2019

SIGNs of CHANGE – 10th Anniversary of SIGN Network exhibition opening

  The latest exhibition to be displayed in Philanthropy House, SIGNs of CHANGE, provided by the SIGN Network will have an opening event…
News - 17 September 2019

An unorthodox meeting becomes a 30-year partnership

One early morning in August 1990, Mott Foundation Chairman Bill White was on a tour bus in Krakow, Poland, while attending the Johns Hopkins Second Annual International Fellows in Philanthropy…
News - 16 September 2019

Why are we doing this? How foundations are thinking differently about their missions

Historically foundation activity has largely meant grant giving, and as grant givers much of our attention has focussed on “how” questions: How do we communicate our requirements? How do we…
News - 15 September 2019

Philanthropy Prizes (2019)

News - 13 September 2019

Scaling Impact for Social Investors

The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) is organising a course on Scaling Impact for Social Investors, in cooperation with the Catolica Lisbon Business School, in…
News - 28 August 2019

How not to lose trust and miss a window of opportunity

As the general set up of Europe underwent fundamental changes in 1989, it seemed that European foundations were getting their act together to help trigger them. One might remember this…
News - 31 July 2019

The European foundation sector has come a long way

The early days I am somewhat in awe of the pioneering vision and optimism shown by the foundations that came together to found the EFC in 1989 and also of…
News - 29 July 2019

Wake up, philanthropy!

Anyone who has ever been to Augsburg knows that it has a city within the city. I mean the Fuggerei, the oldest existing social settlement in the world. Here, surrounded…