Em Novembro de 2023, o Grupo de Institutos, Fundações e Empresas (GIFE) lançou uma nova edição do Censo GIFE, realizado a cada dois anos com sua base de associados. Junto a outros levantamentos, como o do BISC, o Censo é uma pesquisa de referência no campo, que permite traçar um panorama do investimento social privado (ISP) no Brasil.
For Ana Valéria Araújo, superintendent of the institution, philanthropy must support organizations that defend labor rights and compliance with constitutional guarantees
By Rafael Cistati
Quase metade dos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras brasileiros vivem, hoje, na informalidade. São pessoas que não contribuem para a previdência social e que, por isso, não têm acesso a direitos como o seguro desemprego ou auxílio doença. Os informais representam mais de 40% da força de trabalho: uma parcela que cresceu nos últimos anos, especialmente depois de 2017, quando foi aprovada a reforma trabalhista. “O argumento era de que a reforma geraria empregos. Não gerou”, diz Ana Valéria Araújo, superintendente do Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos. “Hoje, 40% dos trabalhadores brasileiros vendem sua força de trabalho sem ter acesso a direitos”.
At the GIFE 2023 Congress, Allyne Andrade, deputy superintendent of the Brazil Fund, participated in a debate on regulatory challenges facing civil society
By Rafael Ciscati
The covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the way the Brazil Human Rights Fund works. Traditionally, the foundation supports projects developed by grassroots organizations. Proposals, coming from all over the country, are selected via notice. The health emergency forced a change in the work logic. “We started thinking about how to act to keep civil society alive and active in that context”, says Allyne Andrade e Silva, deputy superintendent of the institution. “The solution we found was to offer flexible support”. In this modality, the resource received by the group does not need to be fully used to finance a project: it can also have the objective of institutional strengthening, intended to pay salaries or other expenses of the organization.
Allyne shared this experience during the panel “Regulatory challenges and civil society participation”, held on April 14th during the 12th Congress of the Group of Institutions, Foundations and Companies – Gife. In this year's edition, the event discussed the role of private social investment in combating inequalities that affect Brazilian society.
By Monica C. Ribeiro
De 12 a 14 de abril, a Rede Comuá participou do 12º Congresso GIFE (Grupos, Institutos, Fundações e Empresas), que teve como tema Desafiando estruturas de desigualdades.
No primeiro dia, a diretora executiva da Comuá, Graciela Hopstein, mediou a mesa Filantropia comunitária: mobilização de atores diversos para a transformação. Integraram a mesa Larissa Amorim, da Casa Fluminense; Harley Henriques, do Fundo Positivo – ambos integrantes da Rede Comuá -; Jair Resende, da Fundação FEAC; e Vinicius Ahmar, do Instituto Arapyaú.
By Monica C. Ribeiro
How can ISP (Private Social Investment) strengthen community philanthropy?
Based on this question, Rede Comuá, in partnership with GIFE (Group of Institutes, Foundations and Companies) has been developing an initiative that aims to promote the community philanthropy agenda in the field of private social investment.
The starting point was the elaboration of a diagnosis, which included the participation of social investors and community and socio-environmental justice funds, which aimed to map approaches and practices of community philanthropy that can serve as a basis for building and strengthening this schedule.
By Monica C. Ribeiro
In June, several actors from society, from the field of philanthropy and Private Social Investment (ISP) met to reflect on how it is possible to strengthen community philanthropy practices in the context of programs and projects related to the social field promoted by foundations, institutes and companies Brazilians.
The initiative, the result of a partnership between the Philanthropy Network for Social Justice (RFJS) and the Group of Institutes Foundations and Companies (GIFE), seeks to reflect on the context of community philanthropy in the country and make a diagnosis of the challenges faced by organizations that work in the field of ISP in relation to this agenda, with a view to contributing to giving visibility and promoting it.
By Erika Sanchez Saez
We will spend years, perhaps centuries, studying and analyzing what we, as humanity, have been experiencing since the beginning of 2020.
There are those who say that the pandemic marks the transition and the true beginning of the 21st century, just as the First World War established and materialized what it meant to be in the 20th century. There are optimistic analyzes that see this period as a possibility for transition to make the changes we so desperately need. There are also pessimists, who point to this as the first of many pandemics to come and the worsening of all our common challenges from it, starting with the deepening of inequalities on a global scale and in a frightening way in the Brazilian context.
By Erika Saez, GIFE advisor, member of the coordinating committee of the Movement for a Culture of Giving, researcher and author of the book Collaborative Philanthropy and Graziela Santiago, knowledge coordinator at GIFE
In recent decades, the ecosystem of philanthropy and private social investment in Brazil has evolved, expanded and developed. We advance in the creation and adoption of practices and capabilities. The field has expanded and diversified, incorporating more and new actors with varied profiles.
By Charles Keidan
At the end of last year, I had the privilege of speaking on a panel with philanthropic colleagues from around the world organized in the context of the GIFE Congress – an association of philanthropic foundations in Brazil[1].
The panel explored the future of philanthropy. Towards the end, our moderator Naila Farouky from the Arab Foundations Forum asked us to share our personal views on philanthropy – what we would like to see happen in our field.
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.
