The story is borrowed from Sagar Prasain’s facebook and is located in Kathmandu. After settling into a taxi, Sagar inquired if people on wheel chair rode his taxi. The driver then enthusiastically shared his recent story: three college students approached him yesterday, with an elderly man on wheel chair. Inquiring how much it would cost…
This is a follow up of a post on www.p-sj.org by FRIDA stating reasons why their grants are unique. Reading FRIDA’s post, we at the Dalit Foundation were inspired to think about why our grants, which lie at the centre of our work for the Dalit Movement in India, are unique. Here are six reasons…
The board of the African Grantmakers Network (AGN) announced on August 25, 2014 the postponement of the 3rd AGN Assembly that was due to take place from 17th – 19th November 2014 in Accra, Ghana. This will now take place in the second half of 2015. The announcement by the board explains that the postponement has become…
On March 22, 2014, at the age of 69, we lost our friend and colleague, and an unrelenting crusader for social justice and human rights, Sithie Tiruchelvam. We wanted to share with you a moving tribute to Sithie from the website of the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust (which Sithie founded in memory of her husband, Neelan Tiruchelvam). The…
By Avila Kilmurray This post was first published on Latest from Alliance, the blog of Alliance Magazine on August 13, 2014. It is the second in the Alliance series of responses by contributors to the March issue of Alliance to John Kania, Mark Kramer and Patty Russell’s ‘Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World’. You can read responses from Kathleen Cravera…
Grantcraft asked Selim Iltus of the Bernard van Leer Foundation and Barry Knight of CENTRIS (and the Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace) about their grantmaking lightbulbs. Hear what they had to say about foundation behavior and cognitive dissonance by clicking here.
By Celia McKeon, Assistant Trust Secretary, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust We all know that it’s not money that builds peace, but people. The complicated process of moving from violent conflict to what might conceivably become sustainable peace only happens if people take risks to enable that transition. It is the actions of people at all…
By Hania Aswad This quote by Suzanne Siskel, also a member of the PSJ&P working group, sums it all for me; “… I don’t think you can talk about social change or social justice – if that includes affecting changes in behavior, belief and attitude – without considering the cultural dimensions of the ways in…
By Mary Ann DeVlieg This post was first published on the World Policy Blog on July 9, 2014 A theatre director is beaten and stabbed to death in front of his apartment. Another is shot to death in front of his wife and child. A filmmaker is kidnapped, his fingers cut off, and he’s left…
I’m a critic of “poverty porn,” the selling of poverty to increase donations. It dehumanizes “beneficiaries” (a word that itself is dehumanizing), but even worse, it’s a slippery slope. Engaging donors on the basis of crisis means you always need a new crisis to keep them engaged; successful philanthropy becomes dependent on having a steady…