Sarah Jeffrey, Victoria Tayler & Lonnie Hackett: Risk, Success & Failure in Philanthropy & International Development
Analysis: Why are grantmakers pausing their programmes?
Rhodri Davies is quoted in an article exploring what is behind an apparent trend of UK grantmakers pausing or halting their operations.
Why Isn’t All Philanthropy Trust-Based Philanthropy?
We explore why “trust-based philanthropy” has gained ground as an idea, what it is framed as an alternative to, and why there is still a gap between rhetoric and practice.
What’s The Point of Philanthropic Foundations? Part 3: Current Issues
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.
What’s The Point of Philanthropic Foundations? Part 2: Historical Perspective
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.
What is Philanthropy For? (Speech to Yorkshire Funders 2023 Conference)
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.
