Opinions

Katarzyna Słubik

President of the Board of the Polish Civil Society Association for Legal Intervention

Opinions - 5 December 2021

The migration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border: It is not over yet. Views from the Polish civil society.

Is Poland the villain? When in mid-August the news broke that 40 Afghans were trapped at the border between the Polish and Belarussian Border Police, few knew what…

Elizabeth Franchini

Opinions - 29 November 2021

Driving impact for persons with disabilities – A smile can change the world

In the film industry, Italian dubbing is universally recognised as the best in the world. In recent years, new technologies have reduced the size of the equipment, making it possible…

Nino Khurtsidze

Opinions - 22 November 2021

Driving impact for persons with disabilities – Institutionalising change

The Georgian Down Syndrome Association (GDSA) was founded four years ago to help young mothers of children with Down Syndrome who found themselves virtually alone and without any peer or…

Opinions - 15 November 2021

Driving impact for persons with disabilities – Impact transfer

Zero Project The Essl Foundation, a charitable foundation from Austria, launched the Zero Project in 2011. Since then, the project has identified more than 700 good practices of inclusion of…

Opinions - 8 November 2021

Driving impact for persons with disabilities – Disability Inclusion Facilitators

Disability inclusion matters in all areas of life. It is guaranteed by human rights treaties – the most important being the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…

Opinions - 4 November 2021

Unseen People, Invisible Viruses and Blind States: Protecting Stateless Peoples as we Learn to Live with COVID-19

Cast your mind back to December 2019, before you had to queue for shops; before leaving your house to visit family and friends became illegal; and before words like lockdown,…

Opinions - 9 September 2021

Future of the Grantmakers East Forum

If you were to evaluate the success of initiatives to support philanthropy, the Grantmakers East Forum (GEF) would score very highly. Results of a review being undertaken by the Steering…

Massimo Salvadori

Opinions - 2 September 2021

IMPULSE

In July 2021 the Chiesi Foundation funded and supported, IMPULSE – Improving Quality and Use of Newborn Indicators. IMPULSE is a two-phase research project led by the consortium of Burlo…

Opinions - 24 June 2021

Appetite to further analyse the rationale and efficiency of tax incentives for philanthropy

This blog was first posted on Alliance on 19 June When commenting on the ERNOP Science and Society Seminar presentation of Giedre…

Lourdes Marquez

Opinions - 17 May 2021

A new opportunity to mainstream disability in the foundation sector

At the beginning of March, the European Commission (EC) adopted the new Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030[1], which provides the roadmap for both the…

Opinions - 26 April 2021

You can’t play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra

Preparing for the launch of the latest edition of our Environmental Funding by European Foundations publication, I mentioned the topic to my eldest son who said that this was…

Opinions - 22 April 2021

Donations, investments, and the uncharted territory in between

This blog was first published on the website of the European Cultural Foundation Donations are widely regarded as the core product of charitable foundations.

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