In 2018, Chance for Childhood, an international children’s charity, embarked on a journey to test alternative routes to financing bigger impact and better outcomes for some of the most vulnerable...
A growing number of philanthropists are exploring innovative ways to maximise the value of their donations by making social impact investments from a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) account. A subset...
In 2013, there were between 80 and 100 venture philanthropy participants in Europe that provided approximately €278 million to increase social impact throughout the world.1 However, the European Venture Philanthropy...
There are three big ways in which private resources can be harnessed for meeting societal needs: through charitable giving and philanthropy, through corporate social responsibility programmes and through the latest...
Potential impact investors are being inundated with articles telling them how to define impact in their investment portfolios and philanthropic programmes. This is confusing at best and off-putting at worst...
To understand what social investment is, it’s important to go back to its start. In the beginning there was Ronnie (Sir Ronald Cohen), who having masterminded the 2008 Dormant Bank...
Given the potential effect on financial advisers’ businesses, there is great interest in the trends of philanthropy and social and impact investment and how different generations approach them. Differences certainly...
This is an interview with Michael Alberg-Seberich and Filiz Bikmen on Beyond Philanthropy’s new report on European philanthropy infrastructure. The research, ‘More than the Sum of its Parts: Insights on...
“In eliminating poverty in all its forms it is necessary to understand how disadvantage tracks onto status-based characteristics, not just in relation to gender but other markers of identity. If...
