By Linda Guinee and Barry Knight Courtesy of www.alliancemagazine.org The first question is: what is power? The simplest and one of the most effective formulations comes from feminist psychologist Jean Baker Miller, who defines power as ‘the capacity to produce a change’. Probing deeper, however, reveals a complexity that is hard to fathom. There are…
By Halima Mahomed and Bhekinkosi Moyo Courtesy of www.alliancemagazine.org ‘The dilemma of the poor is not about resources. It is about power. If the poor have power, they will leverage the resources needed.’ Adam Habib, Vice Chancellor, University of Witwatersrand Adam Habib’s remark, made at the 2012 African Grantmakers Network Assembly on The Role of…
The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace is very excited to be co-hosting a session along with the East Africa Association of Grantmakers (EAAG)and the Africa Grantmakers Network (AGN) at the 2013 East Africa Philanthropy Conference in Mombasa, Kenya. We look forward to seeing you there! Session date: July 25th, 2013 Time:…
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“Ikhala Trust is definitely about a ‘power with’ approach. We cannot deny that we are powerful because we have a resource called money. However, where a community driven social justice agenda comes in is when we recognize the resources the community has and are able to say that we have power together to change a…
White Courtesy Telephone has reposted the following article, which will appear in a special issue of the National Civic Review titled Philanthropy & Resident Engagement: The Promise for Democracy, available October 2013. It will feature case studies, reports, and essays on the resident engagement experiences of public and private foundations. This article was co-authored by…
We often talk about the roles of foundations: what we can and cannot do, what our boards and donors and other constituencies will react to us doing; what our internal systems and structures and budgets allow us to do… all very real parameters within which we work. We also often talk about the added advantage…
By Barry Knight, Chandrika Sahai and Halima Mahomed Courtesy of www.alliancemagazine.org Increased concentration of wealth and increasing inequality are the conditions likely to give rise to philanthropy. This was true with Carnegie and Rockefeller in the US and it seems to be true in the BRICS countries now. In other words, these are the very…
Does luck play a role in the work of a foundation that achieves great results? According to a survey filled out by 80 European foundations, it does. But are they attracted to the idea of a foundation that relies on luck? No they are not, or at least they won’t admit to it. The session…
Thoughts from the Just Giving Conference 2013 Held at the beautiful campus of the Galludet University in Washington D.C., the second annual conference of the Edge Funders Alliance was entitled ‘What is to be done? And how do we do it?’ The simplicity of the conference title was refreshing-allowing for discussions to get straight to…