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What is the donor's true motivation?

A Brazil-based fund is pursuing an approach to funding Indigenous Peoples which is more attuned to their worldview

'In Brazil… we still rely on foreign help, much like a charity case, which is subordinating and disrespectful of the integrity of the beneficiary.' These are the words of Ailton Krenak, an Indigenous leader and coordinator of the Núcleo de Cultura Indígena (Indigenous Culture Center) and council member of the Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, a fund started by activists to fund grassroots environmental defenders, including Indigenous Peoples.

November 9, 2021 No Comments

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Philanthropy, yes, but philanthropy for racial equity…?

Despite a large Black population, Brazil has struggled to mount an effective response to racial inequality

Fundo Baobá launched a collection of black dolls with Estrela to educate children about respect and diversity.

The relationship between philanthropy and the black population is long-standing, the best expression of it being the Black Sisterhoods. Dating back to the colonial era, these institutions allowed blacks to assume and define forms of social engagement, and to pay expenses with some dignity for things such as funerals. They represented resistance and solidarity against the hostility of the colonial mentality. Today, out of the 207.8 million people in Brazil, 55.8 per cent describe themselves as brown, 9.3 per cent as black, and 43.1 per cent as white. Black and brown people form the Afro-Brazilian group or black population. However, despite these figures and the efforts of institutions like the Black Sisterhoods, philanthropy in Brazil has been slow to take up the cause of promoting racial equity.

November 9, 2021 No Comments

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Building a global community philanthropy database: hundreds of spreadsheets and lots of help from our friends

How can we draw attention to organizations working to shift power to local communities? How can we provide up-to-date information on who's doing what, where, in community philanthropy? How can we facilitate learning from and among community philanthropy organizations? Those were some of the questions a group of funders, researchers, and community philanthropy practitioners discussed in New York in early 2018. Today, almost three years later—after meticulous review of hundreds of spreadsheets and lots of help from colleagues from all over the world —Candid has launched the Community Philanthropy Directory, a free global database of community philanthropy organizations.

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A mirror to our field: my five-point plan for the future of philanthropy

At the end of last year, I had the privilege to speak on a panel alongside colleagues in philanthropy around the world at the Gife conference – the leading association for philanthropic foundations in Brazil. I joined Candid President Brad Smith, East Africa Philanthropy Network CEO, Evans Okinyi, as well as AVPN CEO and chairperson Naina Batra who recorded answers to a selection of questions to manage time zone differences.

November 9, 2021 No Comments

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Data, the new currency in Africa

“It is important to uphold and observe ethics in mapping, data collection and packaging. This has proven to be quite a challenge. Approximately, only 30% of researchers and academia come back to the community to verify and share their collected data.” To get to grips with this issue and how to handle it, we talked to Nicera Wanjiru, a young activist driving change in her community and fighting for her community's right to data and information.

November 9, 2021 No Comments

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Giving for Change: Strategies and Concepts

The Giving for Change Program – implemented with the support of Dutch cooperation – is organically integrated with the actions that the Philanthropy Network for Social Justice (Network) has been developing since 2018. Producing materials on community philanthropy and social justice was already a priority line of action of the Network, which has now organically developed into launching the Giving for Change label, a collection of publications that bring forward these reflections. Strengthening the Network and its members is a central strategy of the program, which will now be aligned with the impact program which, in turn, aims to boost and securely position the agenda of community philanthropy and philanthropy for social justice in the Brazilian philanthropic ecosystem, expanding and strengthening civil society organizations committed to social justice, seeking to progressively increase donations (grantmaking actions).

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“Money is power but knowledge is power too” – Meet the Giving for Change alliance: Brazil Philanthropy Network for Social Justice

In this series of interviews, we will be introducing you to the lead partners involved in the Giving for Change program! The five-year, €24 million program will be implemented in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Palestine and Uganda, and is led by a consortium of four organizations: the Africa Philanthropy Network, Kenya Community Development Foundation, GFCF and Wilde Ganzen. The aim of Giving for Change – part of the Dutch government's 'Power of Voices' program – is to foster local giving as an expression of voice, civic participation, solidarity and dissent. The program will build evidence around new thinking, approaches and leadership that supports community philanthropy development.

November 9, 2021 No Comments

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Social movements in times of pandemic: the moment for philanthropy has arrived

The global Corona pandemic might very well be the biggest crisis of our lifetime. The current situation has the potential to not only disrupt the status quo but to change our social, economic and political systems forever. It demands us to suspend great plans, focus on being present and think about what feels right in the current moment. As guest editors of Alliance's June 2020 special feature on the relationship between philanthropy and social movements, we asked ourselves about funding social movements and alternative forms of organizing in a time of social distancing.

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What is the donor's true motivation?

Philanthropy, yes, but philanthropy for racial equity…?

Building a global community philanthropy database: hundreds of spreadsheets and lots of help from our friends

A mirror to our field: my five-point plan for the future of philanthropy

Data, the new currency in Africa

Giving for Change: Strategies and Concepts

“Money is power but knowledge is power too” – Meet the Giving for Change alliance: Brazil Philanthropy Network for Social Justice

Social movements in times of pandemic: the moment for philanthropy has arrived

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