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News - 29 July 2020

Threats, attacks and lack of funding for many civil society organisations in the EU

EU Fundamental Rights Agency issued a worrying report Verbal threats, physical attacks, and lack of funding are some of the main challenges for civil society organisations working on…
News - 15 July 2020

PEX proves it has the ‘X’ factor

James Magowan, Co-Director at ECFI, and Boris Strecanský, Senior Expert and Board Member of the Centre for Philanthropy in Slovakia and consultant for ECFI, reflect on the PEX community scenario thinking sessions that worked through uncertainties facing the philanthropy field post-Covid, and resulted in the PEX Philanthropy Resilience Storybook.
News - 9 July 2020

Collaboration between European policymakers and philanthropy – yes, but how?

On 1 July, the European Policy Centre (EPC), together with DAFNE and EFC organised an online policy debate on how European policymakers and philanthropy can strengthen collaboration to support this transition. Topics ranged from philanthropy’s responses during the emergency phase to how to overcome the challenges philanthropy is facing and a call for the recognition of philanthropy.
News - 9 July 2020

Collaboration between European policymakers and philanthropy – yes, but how?

This was originally posted on 9 July on the Philanthropy Advocacy website. Challenges facing Europe today are tremendous and require an orchestrated response from…
News - 9 July 2020

Collaboration between European policymakers and philanthropy – yes, but how?

Challenges facing Europe today are tremendous and require an orchestrated response from both the private and public sectors. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated how interconnected our continent has become, and…
News - 9 July 2020

EFC EEFG Webinar Series Ep.1 | Environment, health and social inequalities | 3 July 2020

Exploring “Environment, health and social inequalities: relations and impacts”, with the EFC’s European Environmental Funders Group (EEFG), this webinar on 3 July is the first episode in a series…
News - 8 July 2020

Resourcing revival and resilience building

With Europe slowly opening again, our attention turns to how philanthropy can build a resilient civil society, more equitable and better equipped for future points of crisis. As we transition to this revival phase, DAFNE is collecting resources relevant to philanthropy infrastructure organisations in the European Resource Hub 2.0 “COVID-19 Revival & Philanthropy”.
News - 6 July 2020

CSOs in Bulgaria under legal attack by the draft foreign funding law

In January 2020 a group of 62 Bulgarian civil society organisations addressed the European Commissioners with a letter in which they described the smear campaign taking place in Bulgaria against CSOs,…
News - 2 July 2020

How can early action prevent the spread of COVID-19 in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities?

Can early action prevent the spread of COVID-19 in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities? Given the scale of the challenge, what is the most effective way to respond?…
News - 1 July 2020

Outlook – Philanthropy and Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the EU 1st July – 31 December 2020

The German EU Presidency kicks off on Wednesday, 1stJuly 2020. It ends on 31 December 2020 and is the first Presidency of the EU-Presidency-Trio: Germany – Portugal – Slovenia.