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  • 1st Feb 2024

    Mary Rose Gunn: Supporting Small Charities to Thrive

  • 14th Dec 2023

    2024 Predictions for Philanthropy & Civil Society – Part 1

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    What is the point of philanthropic foundations? Part 3: current issues

    14th November 2023

    This is the third and final part of an essay mini-series exploring the nature and role of philanthropic foundations. Here we consider some of the key themes that have emerged throughout the long history of critique and criticisms of foundations, and how these might inform our understanding of current debates.

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    What is the point of philanthropic foundations? Part 2: historical perspective

    14th November 2023

    This is the second of a three-part essay mini-series exploring the nature and role of philanthropic foundations. In this part we trace the historical roots of the foundation idea.

  • 20th Jul 2023

    Martha Awojobi: Anti-Racism, Philanthropy & Fundraising

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    What is Philanthropy For? (Speech to Yorkshire Funders 2023 Conference)

    23rd June 2023

    This is the text of a keynote speech Rhodri Davies gave at the 2023 Yorkshire Funders Conference in Leeds, outlining some of the key questions about the nature and role of philanthropy and why there is a particular need to engage with them right now.

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    GUEST ARTICLE: Solidarity NOT Charity – What it means to be a funder in solidarity with immigrant communities

    22nd May 2023

    In this article Lorena Gonzalez and Jes Olvera from the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights highlight some of the key challenges they have faced in their work trying to give voice to children from minoritsed communities (whose voices have often been little-heard) and explore why this dictates taking a justice-centered approach to philanthropy; which asks funders to think in terms of solidarity, rather than charity.

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    Why Philanthropy Matters April 2023 Newsletter (#8)

    You can read the eighth edition of our monthly newsletter below (from April 2023).

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  • 2nd Mar 2023

    Tris Lumley (NPC) – Open Philanthropy

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    If You Were a Philanthropist, What Would You Do?

    18th November 2022

    If you had the resources to be a philanthropist, how would you go about it? We explore some of the key choices and issues.

  • 17th Nov 2022

    Sara Slaughter & Derek Mitchell: Proximity and Radical Humility in Grantmaking

  • 20th Oct 2022

    Martha Lackritz-Peltier – Technology, International Development & Cross-Border Giving

  • 6th Oct 2022

    The Cost of Living Crisis (with Angela Kail, NPC)

  • 9th Sep 2022

    Derek Bardowell – Philanthropy, Justice & Giving Back

  • 8th Jul 2022

    Charles Keidan – Philanthropy Journalism & Key Issues in Civil Society

  • 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.