Over two days at the Community Foundations of Aotearoa New Zealand conference, I heard a phrase repeated again and again: our ...

What a lifecycle framework, a card game and a room of community foundation leaders in Aotearoa New Zealand sparked about courage. My recent learning journey in the community foundation movement has ...

The New Economies Gathering is an annual global event hosted by the funder collaborative Partners for a New Economy, taking ...

There are few questions more likely to induce squirming in a room full of grant-makers than the one posed by Alliance ...

How philanthropy can fund Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets beyond a drop-down menu of alignments ‘Which SDGs does ...

There is a different kind of energy in a room when an organisation takes a moment to look in the mirror. Such was the ...

How philanthropy can fund Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets beyond a drop-down menu of alignments ‘Which SDGs does your project align with?’ has become a familiar question in funding proposal ...

Following a morning of reflective keynotes setting the scene for Alliance’s 30th-anniversary celebrations, the room’s attention turned to a sector that has unparalleled global attention yet often sits ...

Funding systems can shape everything from who can afford to apply to what kinds of work survives and under what conditions.

Every second year our national conference gives us a chance to step back from the daily work of running a peak body for community foundations and ask some bigger questions: what does Aotearoa New ...

A funding crisis has emerged for human rights groups working against corporate abuses.  A new global survey published by Swedwatch, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice and the Business and ...

Latin American civil society is facing a pattern of increasingly ‘excessively controlling, punitive or stigmatising’ ...