Alliance@PND

Through an agreement with UK-based Alliance magazine, PND is pleased to be able to offer a series of articles about global philanthropy.

Audacity, Adaptability Key to SDG Partnerships

Audacity, Adaptability Key to SDG Partnerships

February 5, 2016 Rachita Vora

Because the Sustainable Development Goals focus as much on what we must achieve as on how we go about it, the development agenda enables new possibilities for collaboration across sectors and borders, writes the Dasra Girl Alliance's Rachita Vora....

Foundations Keen to Collaborate on SDGs

Foundations Keen to Collaborate on SDGs

January 5, 2016 Barry Knight

In the latest installment in our Alliance@PND series, Barry Knight, director of the Webb Memorial Trust, shares results from a survey of foundations in twenty-four countries aimed at gauging grantmaker interest in the Sustainable Development Goals....

Foundations and the SDGs: Poised to Make a Difference?

Foundations and the SDGs: Poised to Make a Difference?

December 7, 2015 Larry McGill

Robust data systems will be fundamental to ensuring global adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, and philanthropy can help jump-start that process, says Foundation Center vice president for research Larry McGill....

Young Donors’ Attitudes to Giving

Young Donors’ Attitudes to Giving

November 5, 2015 Andrew Milner

Andrew Milner talks to young donors from Brazil, Switzerland, Ghana, Mexico, Lebanon, and Singapore about the differences between their philanthropic priorities and those of their parents....

Next Best Things in U.S. Philanthropy Spark Questions

Next Best Things in U.S. Philanthropy Spark Questions

October 7, 2015 Jason Franklin

In our latest Alliance@PND installment, Jason Franklin, W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, reviews six recent trends in American philanthropy and considers their long-term implications....

Interview With Hilary Pennington

Interview With Hilary Pennington

September 8, 2015 Caroline Hartnell

Pennington, vice president of the Ford Foundation's Education, Creativity, and Free Expression program, talks with Caroline Hartnell about Ford's new focus on inequality and its commitment to provide more general operating support.... 

Civic Solutions: A New Era for Citizen Feedback

Civic Solutions: A New Era for Citizen Feedback

August 20, 2015 Elizabeth Christopherson

Rita Allen Foundation president Elizabeth Christopherson writes in our latest installment of Alliance@PND about the potential of digitally-linked communities to participate creatively and effectively in civic change....

Interview With Sergio Urbani

Interview With Sergio Urbani

July 25, 2015 Caroline Hartnell

Before he took the helm of Italy's Cariplo Foundation, Urbani headed one of its grantee organizations. In an interview with Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell, Urbani describes his vision for how the foundation's work and image should be developed....

Interview With Roshni Nadar Malholtra

Interview With Roshni Nadar Malholtra

May 13, 2015 Caroline Hartnell

We share a discussion between Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell and Malholtra, the millennial-generation daughter of Indian industrialist Shiv Nadar and one of the trustees of his eponymous foundation, about their family's approach to philanthropy….

An Act of Faith: Why Should Philanthropists Fund the Arts?

An Act of Faith: Why Should Philanthropists Fund the Arts?

April 15, 2015 Caroline Hartnell, Andrew Milner

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell and Andrew Milner ask funders who support the arts, leaders of arts organizations, and individual artists to answer this perennial question....

Foundations and the SDGs: The 'Conspicuous Absentees' Speak Out

Foundations and the SDGs: The 'Conspicuous Absentees' Speak Out

March 26, 2015 Caroline Hartnell, Andrew Milner

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell and Andrew Milner share the results of a mini-survey of foundation and NGO leaders' thoughts about the Sustainable Development Goals to be announced later this year….

Interview With Ridgway White

Interview With Ridgway White

February 19, 2015 Caroline Hartnell, Ridgway H. White

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell chats with Ridgway White, who became the fourth president of the Mott Foundation early this year, about what lies ahead for the organization his father has headed for almost forty years….

Community Philanthropy and a New Model of Development

Community Philanthropy and a New Model of Development

January 6, 2015 Barry Knight, Jenny Hodgson

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Jenny Hodgson and Barry Knight ask community foundation leaders in North America and Europe whether organizations like theirs can play a role in global development efforts….

Building Teams for Innovation

Building Teams for Innovation

October 23, 2014 Simon Willis

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Simon Willis, CEO of the Young Foundation, argues that if foundations truly want to play an innovative role in society, they must think beyond their standard management practices….

What Do Impact Investors Most Need to Know?

What Do Impact Investors Most Need to Know?

September 24, 2014 Gayle Peterson

Gayle Peterson, an associate fellow at Oxford University's Said Business School, talks about the school's recently-launched impact investing program and shares lessons learned about impact investing from her interviews with social investors around the globe....