• Data on Philanthropy – by us, for us. Making use of evidence for good.

    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…

  • Workshop on Engaged Philanthropy

    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.

  • Exploring relational philanthropy – Mercers Company

    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…

  • 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 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…

  • Towards a Philanthropy for the 21st Century? From Philanthrocapitalism to Relational Philanthropy and Beyond

    Japan NPO Center Shin-Otemachi Building, Tokyo, Japan

    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…