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Southern Voice has launched Global South Perspectives, featuring comprehensive analysis from 16 researchers across nine member institutions. The collection includes both written analysis and video discussions, and offers perspectives on development challenges from Global South scholars and practitioners often excluded from international policy debates.

Tue Jun 10 2025 Read More

Philanthropic competition undermines sector effectiveness and contradicts values of social justice, argue the co-founders of Closer Than You Think. Urging foundations to move beyond scarcity-based thinking toward collaborative abundance approaches, they document their own learning journey from competitive institutional leadership toward feminist collaborative practices.

Tue Jun 10 2025 Read More

Collective social innovation represents a more effective approach to systemic change than traditional single-organization funding, according to Cynthia Rayner, Sophia Otoo & François Bonnici. Analysis of successful collaborative efforts demonstrates how bringing multiple organizations together repeatedly over time can address complex social issues that individual organizations cannot tackle alone.

Tue Jun 10 2025 Read More

Alliance Magazine's analysis of "big bet" philanthropy over the past decade reveals both successes and remaining challenges in large-scale, unrestricted funding approaches. Gabrielle Fitzgerald and Ashif Shaikh offer guidance for foundations, while highlighting areas where big bet approaches have fallen short of their transformative potential.

Tue Jun 10 2025 Read More

Alliance Magazine explores how intermediary organizations maintain accountability to social movements. Kit Muirhead reflects on the critical role these organizations play in bridging funders and grassroots movements while ensuring authentic community leadership and movement priorities remain central to funding decisions.

Tue Jun 03 2025 Read More

Shareable releases "Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance," a comprehensive introductory toolkit for mutual aid organizing covering everything from starting to sustaining a group. This is practical guidance for communities seeking to build solidarity-based support systems outside traditional philanthropic structures.

Tue Jun 03 2025 Read More
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