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Exploring how philanthropy can support community-led change, the article suggests that community-led efforts can be effective if driven by people with knowledge of and respect for community members, their culture, and context. Relationships are the basis of community-led work and play an essential role in priority setting, project design, implementation, learning, and improvement. Flexible funding
Read more →Besides the fact that philanthropic organizations have provided substantial means during a crisis, the pandemic has prompted an increasing public awareness of social inequalities and the dependencies in which philanthropic practice is embedded. Covid-19 reveals continuing tensions in the philanthropic sector on the lack of transparency and accountability worldwide that existed even before the outbreak
Read more →Supported by USAID and the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), Trag Foundation, and Catalyst Balkans from Serbia conducted a series of research on crowdfunding practices during the last year. The organizations developed policy recommendations to address the gaps in giving at home and from the diaspora. Serbia has one domestic donation-based crowdfunding platform, Donacije.rs,
Read more →Charity Aid Foundation (CAF) World Giving Index 2021 provides an overview of global trends in generosity. It explains where people are most likely to engage in social activities to benefit their communities and champion global giving. It provides combined insight into the scope and nature of giving around the world and looks at three aspects
Read more →The fourth edition of the Swiss Foundation Code is one of the most distinguished sets of good governance guidelines in philanthropy in Europe. It serves as an orientation framework for all varieties of foundations, including users such as prospective founders, foundation board members, foundation employees, service providers, supervisory authorities, and philanthropy organizations. The Code also
Read more →Catalyst Balkans delivered infographics, presenting data for helping prevent the consequences from COVID-19, as well as people’s reactions since the outbreak of the pandemic. In terms of the value of donations, from the beginning of the crisis to 31 May 2021, Catalyst processed data on 5,993 philanthropic instances in the Western Balkans and registered the total
Read more →In response to Covid 19, Trag Foundation in 2020, granted 63 organizations with 23,510,992 RSD in Serbia, BiH, and Montenegro, thus fulfilling its operational mission. Grants were delivered to organizations providing care for safe houses and housing programs; workshops; field visits and human packages distributions; institution monitoring and public advocacy; Internet services; information sharing to
Read more →The Impact Standards for Financing Sustainable Development (IS-FSD), created by the OECD and UNDP, searches to fill the gap between high-level principles and the impact measurement and management frameworks and tools independently used by the organizations. The Standards provide donors, DFIs, and private investors a practical guide and self-assessment tool to integrate impact management into
Read more →62 CSOs and global networks have distributed an open letter expressing their concerns on the design, consultations, and establishment of the inadequate OECD Debt Transparency Initiative (DTI). The DTI was first announced by the G20 in 2020 to improve transparency in low-income countries, designed around the Institute of International Finance (IIF) Voluntary Principles on Debt
Read more →CIVICUS designed the Donor Funder, a directory of donors to help CSOs, movements, groups, and individual activists worldwide, particularly those in the global south, to find better resources and sustain their work challenged with problems among which access to information on proper donors and funding opportunities. The directory includes simple but complete profiles organized by
Read more →At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, members of the OECD and Development Assistance Committee (DAC) committed to protecting Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets. While ODA levels went up, the challenge of fulfilling the channeling 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) to the countries most in need and the commitments made on the quality
Read more →The findings of the public opinion survey about Philanthropy in Serbia in 2020, published by the Trag Foundation, present that citizens are willing to donate more for the common good and volunteer. The strongest motivation for Serbian citizens to participate in charitable campaigns is the feeling that they are helping to solve problems with their
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