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  • News

    Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter Sept 2025 (#34)

     WPM Newsletter September 2025
  • 2nd Oct 2025

    Oli French & Sally Vivyan: Why and how do foundations spend down?

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  • 18th Sep 2025

    Philanthropy in an Era of Populist Politics

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  • News

    Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter Summer 2025 (#33)

     WPM Newsletter Summer 2025
  • Newsletter featured in: Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter

    Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter June 2025 (#32)

  • 26th Jun 2025

    ERNOP: Connecting Philanthropy Academia & Practice #10

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  • Article featured in: Alliance Magazine

    Foreign Waters

    Rhodri Davies is quoted in the article exploring the role of global philanthropy in the context of massive aid cuts.

  • 12th Jun 2025

    Róisín Wood: Philanthropy & Civil Society in Northern Ireland

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    Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter May 2025 (#31)

  • 1st May 2025

    Sarah Jeffrey, Victoria Tayler & Lonnie Hackett: Risk, Success & Failure in Philanthropy & International Development

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  • Newsletter featured in: Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter

    Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter April 2025 #30

  • 18th Apr 2025

    Natasha Friend and Maria Ahmed: Participatory Grantmaking

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  • Newsletter featured in: Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter

    Why Philanthropy Matters newsletter March 2025 (#29)

  • Article

    Is Elon Musk right that “empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization?”

    28th March 2025

    We explore Elon Musk’s recent claim that “empathy is the fundamental weakness of Western civilisation” – what does it mean, where does it come from, and is there is any truth in it?

  • 6th Mar 2025

    Farai Chideya: Philanthropy, Democracy & Multiracial Pluralism

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    Why Philanthropy Matters Newsletter February 2025 (#28)

    • Learn from our past to better understand our future.

    Philanthropy has a long and varied history. We’ve created bite-size chapters that you can jump in and out of to better understand philanthropy.

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