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Strengthening Community Philanthropy

Spread across multiple settings, fields and disciplines, the notion of community philanthropy is appealing and multi-faceted; it presents an ever-changing arrangement of principles, practices, patterns and perceptions that cover a…

Exploring UK foundations’ grantmaking approaches – Catalyst for Impact

Dr Janis Petzinger will lead a session at the ‘Catalyst for Impact’ charity network event exploring UK foundations' historic and contemporary grantmaking approaches. She will show how foundations have tackled poverty through different forms of knowledge: a top-down approach, whereby foundations pull from rationalist, financialised approaches, and a bottom-up approach, where foundations embed themselves locally…