Beyond the Checklist: Rethinking CSO due diligence in complexity
Dawit Dessie When I was in grad school, there was a strong push to limit overhead expenses to just 10% ...
How collective care and holding each other’s hands could change the global aid sector
Musimbi Epillose Musimbi Epillose The concept of #ShiftThePower is rapidly taking over the old development approaches. Grassroots organizations for a ...
What a Balinese massage taught me about measuring what matters
Nina Fitzsimons In July 2024, the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) extended their global reach to include Australia in ...
Leading, learning and letting go: PSJP’s journey
Chandrika Sahai At Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace (PSJP) our goal has been to centre the normative values of ...
Philanthropy that transforms
We fund marginalized groups because we believe that is the way to strengthen access to rights. We see democracy as ...
From the road to Bogotá to continuing the dance of the revolution in sustaining ourselves and nurturing our movements
Burn-out is not an isolated issue but one that affects many across social movement. Collective care involves a commitment to ...
Measuring community wellbeing; beyond numbers and donor agendas
If we want the people to be resilient, how can we build a vision of evaluating that based on well-being? ...
A call for proposals, but only if you are from the “right part” of the world
Studying the ways in which aid remains restricted has been the progressive discovery of how little we still understand the ...
Tied Aid: A development challenge that refuses to go away.
At this time, when governments of developing nations are increasingly skeptical of foreign funding, barriers imposed by the donor countries ...
To my feminist siblings, there is a funding crisis in feminist activism.
When the sector talks about donor fatigue or donors saying they don’t see where the money is going. Well, only ...
