As part of a larger trend toward intermediary-based environmental funding, conservation regrantors based in the Global North and focused on the Global South are growing rapidly. Here are the major players.
Read MoreFounded amid the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s foundation channels philanthropic cash to rapid responses, several medium-term priorities, and bigger bets. We connected with CEO Anil Soni to learn more.
Read MoreWith no shortage of wealthy donors, the Asia Pacific region has a lot of philanthropic potential. To learn more, we connected with Lim Seok Hui, who leads a collaborative philanthropy initiative looking to deliver on that.
Read MoreInspired by Nelson Mandela’s conviction that “sport has the power to change the world,” Laureus has a global funding footprint. Olympic athletes like gold medalists Edwin Moses and Nadia Comaneci help lead its work.
Read MoreMasana wa Afrika, now fully independent from its parent organizations, is based in Africa and is led and run by Africans. It’s backing critical care services for children, those with special needs in particular.
Read MoreThe Skoll World Forum, which took place this spring, played host to discussions centered on how systems work, and how to change stubborn power structures. Here’s what three global philanthropy leaders who participated had to say.
Read MoreThe Imago Dei Fund’s new Gender Equity Seed Fund has relied on a co-creation committee of participatory grantmakers to shape its work. Susan Barnett tells us how it all came together and what the process was like.
Read MoreBacked by the Ford Foundation and a number of other philanthropies, the Green Screen Catalyst Fund is resourcing global efforts at the intersection of two fields that funders do not often support in tandem.
Read MoreAs AI technology takes off, guest authors Caroline Suozzi and Henrietta Bankole-Olusina of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors make the case for why grantmakers need to help shepherd its use throughout the world economy.
Read MoreThrough the three-year, $90 million Pockets of Hope campaign, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and several other funders want to change the narrative that backing systemic change in the island nation is a lost cause.
Read MoreEvery year at the Skoll World Forum, the foundation recognizes a handful of social innovators, who each receive $2 million in unrestricted funding. We take a closer look at the awards and one of this year’s winners.
Read MoreThe funds that make up Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur span the world, and all work to move money to local people. As a new era of climate funding dawns, the aim is to shift the field’s Global North-driven status quo.
Read MoreGrassroots International backs global movements for justice, with two of its longest-running programs in Palestine and Haiti. Organization leaders discuss the situations on the ground in both places and how funders can respond.
Read MoreHumanity United isn’t a climate funder, but it is coming to recognize just how interconnected climate issues are with its global human rights work. It’s one among many grantmakers reckoning with realities that impact every field.
Read MoreGuest author Jayanthi A. Pushkaran shares how EMpower–The Emerging Markets Foundation has developed a participatory funding model in India that empowers girls as experts on their own lives.
Read MoreMost U.S. foundations fund close to home, and when they do support global causes, tend to fund large Western NGOs. But for years now, the Segal Family Foundation has been backing locally driven work in Africa.
Read MoreOSF announced this week that a human rights lawyer and advocate, and longtime staffer at the massive grantmaker, will take over as president. Here’s what you need to know about Binaifer Nowrojee.
Read MoreIdeas like “social entrepreneurship” and “changemaking” show up everywhere today, and that has a lot to do with Drayton and the global organization he founded. Here’s a look at Ashoka’s work and backing, and what’s next.
Read MoreThrough a giving initiative at the company he cofounded, Intrivo Diagnostics, the serial entrepreneur has channeled aid to Ukraine and during the Israel-Gaza conflict. He says a family foundation is also on its way.
Read MoreWhile the U.S. remains the primary focus, MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving has been moving huge sums toward global philanthropy, including hundreds of millions last year. Here are the top issues and geographies.
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