The articles in this issue of The Foundation Review all touch on the importance of collaboration, whether with peers to foster learning or across sectors and organizations within communities — or around the globe — to achieve impact.
By Tory Martin
When funders support their nonprofit partners’ ability to raise flexible, independent dollars, those nonprofits are better positioned to meet crises and opportunities quickly, creatively, and strategically.
Four next gen donors share how 2020 affected them and how they, their peers, and their families tried to step up to help.
Poor exposure to philanthropists and limited resources mean African universities — and Africans — are left behind in the globalized and highly competitive field of higher education.
Philanthropy is globalizing — a dynamic process in which actors exchange ideas and practices and engage in shared learning to find forms of giving that are authentic for different cultural contexts.
Michael Layton draws parallels between the Gilded Age and current challenges in philanthropy, and argues that giving circles offer valuable insights about how to democratize philanthropy.
A 2020 survey of next gen donors revealed new ventures and family engagements, as well as stories of frustration as they scrambled to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in appropriate yet effective ways.
Guest author Jack Lewars sees the potential of young people to drive progress through charitable giving and offers advice on engaging the next generation in philanthropy.
Guest author Isis Krause shares how a 2016 study on giving circles sparked the creation of a new infrastructure organization, Philanthropy Together.
Forces including the global concentration of wealth and the marginalization of BIPOC communities are driving crucial conversations about the haves and have-nots.