Tine Wickers Opinions - 16 March 2020 “Our Goals” The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concern us all. They deal with how we interact with each other, society and nature. A new initiative has been…
Tine Wickers Opinions - 19 February 2020 Virtually everyone’s a winner – Nordea-fonden sets up electronic board meetings Our recent introduction of electronic board meetings is a huge step forward for us in terms of improving the foundation’s relationship with grantees, as the time needed to process their…
Madeleine Clarke Opinions - 10 February 2020 The European Social Catalyst Fund This blog was first published on the DAFNE website on 30 January. The European Social Catalyst Fund (ESCF) is a…
Jovana Trifunovic Opinions - 30 January 2020 “Philanthropy in the digital age” “Philanthropy in the digital age” is an ERSTE Foundation Talk Europe! video with Lucy Bernholz “First we have to figure out how to make technology work…
Erica Cadbury Opinions - 29 January 2020 100 years of the Barrow Cadbury Trust This blog was originally posted on the Barrow Cadbury Trust website on 23 January. This year is our centenary. For the last hundred years…
Opinions - 9 December 2019 Avoid making a drama out of a crisis The EFC’s Communications Professionals in Philanthropy Network held its Autumn Meeting in Athens, hosted by the Bodossaki Foundation from 21-22 November 2019. The meeting focused on members’ experiences in…
Maria Fola Opinions - 4 December 2019 Reflections on crisis communications – how prepared are we? A few weeks ago, a group of passionate communications professionals met in Athens, Greece, to deep dive into the issue of crisis communications. This was the autumn meeting of the…
Virginia Ruan Opinions - 6 November 2019 Communication is the strategy This blog was first published on Alliance on 31 October Communications strategy: what is it exactly in the context of a grant-making foundation? How can we use…
Ruzanna Ter-Ghazaryan Opinions - 31 October 2019 Reflections from EFC’s Grantmakers East Forum 2019 This blog was first published by Alliance Magazine on 30 October 2019. It was a pleasure to participate in the EFC Grantmakers East Forum (GEF)…
Antoaneta Ivanova Opinions - 30 October 2019 Are we digitalising civic movements? This blog was first published by Alliance Magazine on 29 October 2019. During the EFC Grantmakers East Forum in Tbilisi, the donors in attendance were…
Guido Barilla Opinions - 28 October 2019 Fight climate change with your fork Until recently, most private foundations ignored climate change. Rather, they preferred to combat its negative effects such as migration and health care. This is useful, but it left unanswered many…
Lourdes Marquez de la Calleja Opinions - 15 October 2019 30 years of the EFC Ahead of addressing the 74th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly this year on September 26th in New York, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, took a selfie,…