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Tag: Social Change

  • 12th Mar 2026

    Myths of Philanthropy #3: Individualism and Scarcity, with Zaineb Mohammed & Devi Leiper O’Malley

  • 9th Mar 2026

    Myths of Philanthropy #2: Presumed Expertise, with élysse marcellin & Tesmerelna Atsbeha

  • 12th Jun 2025

    Róisín Wood: Philanthropy & Civil Society in Northern Ireland

  • Podcast featured in: Philanthropy Masterminds

    Philanthropy Masterminds

    Rhodri joins host Jay Frost for an edition of the DonorSearch Philanthropy Masterminds podcast.

     

  • 19th Sep 2024

    Philanthropy and Social Justice

  • 20th Jun 2024

    Mandy van Deven & Chiara Cattaneo: Building and resourcing narrative power

  • Article

    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.

  • 9th May 2024

    Fozia Irfan: Transformative Philanthropy

  • Article featured in: Charity Hall of Fame

    Are Funders Changemakers Too?

    Rhodri Davies offers some thoughts in a guest blog for the new Charity Hall of Fame on whether we should view funders as changemakers, in addition to those they fund.

  • 11th Apr 2024

    Amy Schiller: Reimagining the role of philanthropy

  • Podcast featured in: Third Sector

    The End of Charity: Episode 4

    In the fourth episode of Third Sector’s documentary series on the future of charity, Rhodri Davies joins host Lucinda Rouse to discuss the intersection of charities and politics.

  • Video featured in: Bayes Business School

    Transformative Philanthropy

    Watch a recording of the launch event for Fozia Irfan’s “Transformative Philanthropy” report, including thoughts from WPM Director Rhodri Davies on the history of social justice philanthropy in the UK.

  • Article

    The History of Social Justice Philanthropy in the UK

    To mark the publication of Fozia Irfan’s report Transformative Philanthropy: A Manual for Social Change, we take a look at the history of philanthropy aimed at social justice in the UK.

  • 16th Nov 2023

    Elizabeth Barajas-Román: Feminist funding and gender equity

  • 7th Sep 2023

    Lorena Gonzalez & Jes Olvera: philanthropy, justice & child migrants

  • Article

    Radical Philanthropy: Some thoughts on the recent New Yorker profile of Leah Hunt-Hendrix

    Rhodri Davies highlights a few thoughts prompted by the recent New Yorker magazine profile of philanthropist Leah Hunt-Hendrix.

  • 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.