WGF grantee The Shine Campaign has announced international women’s rights and development leader, Everjoice Win, as their new Executive Director. “Shine’s focus on last-mile communities and emphasis on women and…
…have. Crandall writes: “Despite our organizing, my generation has witnessed continued inaction on climate nationally and locally, with politicians and corporate interests continuing to support fracked gas, freeway expansions and…
…national levels. “’There’s a striking disconnect between what major insurance companies are publicly saying about climate change risks and what their industry associations are telling policymakers,’ InfluenceMap Sustainable Finance Analyst…
…religious organizations for decades. In the 1980s South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement built an international divestment campaign that was instrumental in transforming that society. Building on the lessons from that powerful…
Wallace Global Fund Executive Director Ellen Dorsey penned an op-ed in The Chronicle of Philanthropy about how philanthropy must react to the climate crisis. In it, she challenges foundations to…
NEW YORK and BRUSSELS: On June 27th, international advocacy organization Global Citizen and the European Commission (EC) hosted Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Summit and The Concert,…
Philanthropy News Digest spoke with Wallace Global Fund’s Ellen Dorsey about the fund’s decision-making process, the moral obligations of foundations in a time of crisis, and the longer-term consequences of…
…WGF Executive Director Ellen Dorsey accepted the inaugural Nelson Mandela-Graça Machel Innovation Award for Brave Philanthropy on behalf of Divest-Invest Philanthropy, a coalition of 155 foundations, family offices, and charities…
Mark Alias writes in Democracy Docket, that the case coming under consideration by the Supreme Court “could shake the foundations of federalism and judicial review and undermine the tools available…