Tobias Jung will chair a conversation on data collection and research evidence for influencing social policy, strategic decision making, and implementation of programmes in the foundation world. The webinar is organised by Philea, the Philanthropy Europe Association, in collaboration with the European Research Network On Philanthropy (ERNOP) and takes place on 13th September. For further information…

Janis Petzinger will lead a session on engaged philanthropy. The session, forming part of this year's Rank Foundation conference, will explore how foundations have approached relationships with beneficiaries through history and how organisations are now reframing relationships, introducing and using a high/low trust versus high/low embeddedness matrix.

Dr Janis Petzinger will present her research on relational philanthropy to the philanthropy team at London’s Mercers Company. Discussing the lexicon of ‘added-value philanthropy’ that resembles a pull between philanthrocapitalism and relational philanthropy, Dr Petzinger will explore the promises and pitfalls of philanthrocapitalism and financialised philanthropy, and how the UK foundation world is shifting best…

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…

Dr Janis Petzinger will present insights on relational philanthropy as part of the Christian Funders Forum Learning event

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 diversity of interrelated ideas and ideals. However, knowledge and understanding of community philanthropy remain emergent; more diversity in views and voices and a better critically…

Seminar for the Japan NPO Research Association (JANPORA) by Tobias Jung For over a century, philanthropy has been on the search for more effective and efficient approaches to giving. Historically, this journey has ranged from Andrew Carnegie’s idea of ‘scientific philanthropy’, to recent notions of ‘venture philanthropy’, ‘entrepreneurial philanthropy’, and ‘philathrocapitalism’. These approaches, characterised by…