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  • Event featured in: Giving Tuesday

    Rewriting the Rules of Philanthropy- How We Give Now

    At s recent event hosted by Giving Tuesday, Rhodri Davies moderated a fascinating conversation with Asha Curran (CEO of Giving Tuesday), Lucy Bernholz (Senior Research Scholar at Stanford PACS) and Edgar Villanueva (author of Decolonizing Wealth).

  • Article featured in: Inside Philanthropy

    How smart tech can make philanthropy smarter

    In this article Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, authors of The Smart Nonprofit credit Rhodri Davies for coining the term “philgorithm” to describe the potential application of AI to automating decisions about giving.

  • Article featured in: Civil Society Magazine

    Cryptophilanthropists – friend or foe to charities?

    In this article, Rhodri Davies is quoted on the challenges that cryptophilanthropy can pose for charities.

  • Article featured in: Times Higher Education

    Russia links scrutiny adds to donations pressure on UK campuses

    In this article, Rhodri Davies is quoted talking about the impact of  sanctions on Russian oligarchs on philanthropic donations to universities.

  • Article featured in: New York Times

    Elon Musk’s philanthropy

    Rhodri Davies is quoted in a New York Times article on “Elon Musk’s Latest Innovation: Troll Philanthropy”.

  • Article featured in: Washington Post

    Bitcoin donations trouble some charities

    Rhodri Davies is quoted in this Washington Post article talking about why some charities are wary of accepting cryptocurrency donations.

  • Article featured in: Third Sector

    Why aren’t more charities supporting community building initiatives?

    Rhodri Davies writes for Third Sector magazine about why charities should embrace the role they can play in helping to build stronger neighbourhoods and communities post covid.

  • Article featured in: Alliance Magazine

    What could Elon Musk’s Twitter bid mean for philanthropy?

    Rhodri writes for Alliance magazine about the potential implications for philanthropy and civil society of the news that Elon Musk is to buy Twitter:

  • 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.