For the second year in a row,the South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF) presents an enchanting musical evening, VOICE: BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES, featuring violinist Sunita Bhuyan and tabla player Peshala Manoj. The event will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 9th September at Taj Samudra from 6pm to 8.30 pm. Friends in Colombo please book…
Jay Naidoo is Chairperson of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. He was Founding General Secretary of COSATU and former Minister of Reconstruction and Development in the Mandela Cabinet. In this article for the Alliance magazine website he looks at development and the role foundations can play in redefining this. Naidoo discusses what he sees…
Michael Seltzer makes ‘THE CASE FOR USING A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS IN GRANTMAKING’ in the first issue of the professional journal for grant mangers – GMNSight of the Grants Managers Network. The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking.pdf
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Taso Foundation is a National Women’s Fund and Memory Research Centre of Georgia working towards Women’s Empowerment for Human Rights, Equality, Social Justice and Peace in Georgia. The organisation works to promote women’s human rights, gender equality, local democracy building, philanthropy and social development of local women’s communities. Georgian society, based on its historic and…
By Candace Maria Albertal Lessa Brazil has been changing dramatically since the end of the military dictatorship: it is a consolidated democracy and a model economy ranking between 5th and 7th place in global economic indices, often above France and Italy. However, this state of affairs has not eradicated social, racial and economic inequalities that…
The 2012 EFC Conference held in June 2012 in Belfast foregrounded the unique role played by European foundations in addressing challenging issues in deeply divided and conflicted societies. The venue, with its troubled past and courageous steps into a peaceful future, could not have been more befitting to the theme of the conference ‘Peace through…
Effective philanthropy for social justice and peace (PSJP) aims to address injustices in a society that result in social, economic, and/or political inequalities. Rather than focus on the effects of unjust treatment, good social justice grant making attempts to undo the mechanisms of oppression and conflict. Why do we need a network for philanthropy for…
Attached are the powerpoints used by John Christensen and Niall Crowley at the EFC session the Working Group on Philanthroy for Social Justice and Peace organized to talk about movements for Economic Justice. John Christensen – Belfast – JUNE-2012.pdf Niall Crowley – Belfast.pdf