I received a poem from a friend in my inbox – an uplifting reminder about our hopes for the future at a time when many of us are despairing. It dreams of a race-less future generation, anchored on the words of Jimi Hendrix: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world…
Al Mulhem (“Inspirer” in English), authored by Hania Aswad is a training guide for civil society, published by the Naseej Foundation in September 2015. Drwaring from the Arab Region, Al Mulhem provides a theoretical and philosophical as well as practical framework to practitioners, activists and CSOs eager to applying Social Justice and Right based principles in their…
February 2016 Grantmaking For Social Justice And Peace: Approaches Drawn From Shared Practice by Avila Kilmurray and Barry Knight is a study drawn from a wide range of independent funders into the nature of philanthropy for promoting social justice and peace. The aim of the study is “to share the experiences and practices of many different…
THE IDEX ACADEMY6-10 March 2016, Sonoma, California If you want to help usher in transformative social change, today’s global challenges require your most ingenious thinking, your most effective resources, and your strongest partnerships. Join us for The IDEX Academy, a week-long training course for people who deploy resources towards social change. We equip you with…
Should philanthropists and foundations fund artists directly to create the art they want to make? Should they fund theatres and galleries to make art more available to more people? Should they fund only work that explicitly promotes social change? Or should they fund the arts ‘in their own right’ – whatever that means? These are…
The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace came together in 2007. It has since been committed to improving and growing the impact of philanthropy on social justice and peace building work. It has done so through dialogue amongst the members; through meetings and even entire conferences devoted to peace and social justice…
Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM)/Central American Women’s Fund (CAWF), Managua, Nicaragua and San Francisco, USA Written by Andrew Milner FCAM and the swallows ‘I remember the case of Veronica. While she was working [as a sex worker], a client shot her in the stomach and ran off. We, her colleagues and fellow sex workers, took…
The Fondo de Mujeres del Sur (FMS) is a foundation that mobilizes financial and technical resources in order to promote women’s rights in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. As an indigenous activist fund they play a key role in building bridges between those that have money and those that have the power to implement changes. In…
Multi Agency Grants Initiative (MAGI) in South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa Written by Andrew Milner Zaide Harneker is a programme manager at MAGI. She recalls her first meeting with one of MAGI’s grantees, the Lethabong Legal Advice Centre in South Africa’s North West Province. Their office was a tiny two-roomed house with an outside toilet.…
Ford Foundation Peace and Social Justice Program, Global Civil Society Portfolio (GCS), New York City, USA Written by Andrew Milner ‘We the invisible’ You work for an NGO that is trying to improve the access to health and education of the poor and vulnerable. By and large, you are doing well. But one day, the…