10 rules for being an effective donor

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New platform shines a spotlight on Arab philanthropy

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Winners announced in $8m education prize

Hong Kong-based Yidan Prize awards Stanford professor and nonprofit CEO for innovative work in boosting learning outcomes.

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The Impact Room

Unpacking the myth of the ‘good refugee’

In the politics of migration, refugees are either demonised as intruders or celebrated for their success. But how does this distinction of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ refugees shape policies and perceptions? And what is the effect on those who are defined by it?

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UAE firm backs fight against preventable disease with $10m pledge

Matched donation from Al Ansari Exchange and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to drive progress against polio and neglected tropical diseases.

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Winners announced for $1m UAE health prize

Doctors from Ghana, Yemen, Pakistan, and the Philippines receive funding for innovative community approaches to eliminating infectious diseases.

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$1m prize awarded to US teacher giving immigrant pupils a chance to succeed

Educator Keishia Thorpe used her own experiences of racism to improve support systems for immigrant students and their families.

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UAE nonprofits face tighter fundraising laws

New rules will step up scrutiny of how charities in the emirates raise, use, and manage donations.

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New $1m fund for frontline groups fighting modern slavery

Freedom Fund to give grants to survivors of exploitation in plan to drive localised solutions to a global problem.

Spotlight Issue 16

From garment workers to graduates

Inside the university giving Asia’s bright but poverty-stricken young women a fresh start.

Update

Saudi foundation fund aims to build north-south science ties

New Community Jameel fund is part of a wider bid to tackle the global equity gap in science, says foundation director.

Podcasts

The Impact Room

The Impact Room is a new space to connect people and ideas that make a real difference to our world. Step inside to hear stories of success – and failure – from a host of global guests, all working to solve some of the world’s most intractable development challenges.

Interviews

Meet the artist moving millions to help children in need

British painter Sacha Jafri on the sale of his $62m artwork for charity, and his plan to help bring healthcare, education, and internet access to impoverished children worldwide.

Interviews Issue 16

Remaking education

Industrial tycoons Faizal and Shabana Kottikollon are on a mission to upgrade Indian’s public education system, one school at a time.

Interviews Issue 16

The science of progress

Hayat Sindi believes science and technology could unleash a new wave of progress in the world’s poorest Muslim nations. She tells Philanthropy Age how the Islamic Development Bank plans to lead the charge.

Interviews Issue 16

Poverty pioneers

J-PAL is a global league of economists with a shared ambition: to help transform the lives of the world’s poor through better and more effective policy interventions.

Interviews Issue 16

Better business

From upcycling clothes to save pockets and landfill, to building a national heath service online, meet the social entrepreneurs doing business better.

Interviews

Class divide

Covid-19 has left millions of refugee children out of school. The world’s response, say the CEOs of Save the Children UK and the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education, threatens this generation, and those to come.

Interviews

Creating a legacy

Alserkal Avenue, Dubai’s contemporary art hub, is putting down roots through its foundation and charity work.

Update

Funding pressures mount amid Afghanistan crisis

Humanitarian agencies warn perfect storm of factors has left 18 million Afghans in desperate need of aid.

Spotlight

Big picture / Rockefeller, Ikea pledge $1bn in green energy push

Each foundation will give $500m to a fund that will finance renewable energy projects in emerging nations.

The Impact Room

Philanthropy and the last mile of disease elimination

Ellen Agler is CEO of the END Fund, a philanthropy-backed initiative working to bring an end to the five most common neglected tropical diseases. She joins the Impact Room to talk progress, pooled giving, and the decolonisation of global health.

Update

Refugee organisations get $24.3m funding boost

The Larsen Lam ICONIQ Impact Award supports calls to localise aid funding and increase direct support to frontline organisations.

Insights

Climate countdown

Climate change is the greatest emergency facing humanity. As the window for action closes, philanthropy must step up.

Update

UN refugee agency plans global expansion of zakat fund

UNHCR to further target Islamic donors through the launch of a legacy giving scheme, and will explore an endowment fund.

In-depth Issue 15

Family fortunes

Find out how changing mindsets, new laws and social pressures are shaping the way GCC family businesses choose to give.

Insights Issue 16

Creating a wired world

Universal internet access should be a central pillar of efforts to build back better after Covid-19, writes Adrian Lovett, CEO of the World Wide Web Foundation.

Insights

How philanthropy can fight pandemics and health crises

Catalytic social investments could play a crucial role in combatting global health issues, argues philanthropist James Chen.

Insights

10 rules for being an effective donor

Update

New platform shines a spotlight on Arab philanthropy

Update

Winners announced in $8m education prize

Unpacking the myth of the ‘good refugee’

UAE firm backs fight against preventable disease with $10m pledge

Winners announced for $1m UAE health prize

$1m prize awarded to US teacher giving immigrant pupils a chance to succeed

UAE nonprofits face tighter fundraising laws

New $1m fund for frontline groups fighting modern slavery

From garment workers to graduates

Saudi foundation fund aims to build north-south science ties

The Impact Room

Interviews

Meet the artist moving millions to help children in need

Remaking education

The science of progress

Poverty pioneers

Better business

Class divide

Creating a legacy

Funding pressures mount amid Afghanistan crisis

Big picture / Rockefeller, Ikea pledge $1bn in green energy push

Philanthropy and the last mile of disease elimination

Refugee organisations get $24.3m funding boost

Climate countdown

UN refugee agency plans global expansion of zakat fund

Family fortunes

Creating a wired world

How philanthropy can fight pandemics and health crises

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