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Conference Report Alliance magazine 28 March 2024

Philea Research Forum 2024

The Research Forum was a unique space for knowledge exchange, critical networking and deep-diving into research and innovation funding practices by foundations. Hosted by Fondazione Cariplo, with the support of the Cariplo Factory, the Research Forum aimed …

News Shafi Musaddique 28 March 2024

Gates Foundation accused of funding Brazil dengue fever in misinformation surge

A German biotech company linked to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has had to refute claims made by social media conspiracists that it is behind a dengue fever outbreak in Brazil.  Oxitec has received …

Conference reports Ilaria d’Auria 28 March 2024

Innovation is like a truffle

“Innovation is like a truffle”. This is one of the many insights that I have been chewing on since I returned from Philea’s Research Forum conference in Milan, hosted by Fondazione Cariplo. Truffles are known to …

Conference reports Alexandre Esteban 28 March 2024

Foundations as hubs of knowledge and innovation

The recent Philea Research Forum took place on the 7th and 8th of March in the incomparable setting of the CARIPLO Factory in Milan. The Forum was an exceptional opportunity to meet again with some …

Page Alliance magazine 27 March 2024

Alliance Inclusion Fund

We want to open and broaden the philanthropy conversation. That means taking active steps to include, welcome and amplify previously excluded voices. Our externally led EDI audit in 2023 identified two key barriers to achieving …

News Alliance magazine 27 March 2024

Alliance launches Inclusion Fund for non-English language writers

We want to open and broaden the philanthropy conversation.   That means taking active steps to include, welcome and amplify previously excluded voices and making them more central to the philanthropy conversation.  Following our external …

Opinion Dumi Gatsha 27 March 2024

Transgender Day of Visibility: Nourishing community to challenge backlash

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson tells us, ‘strong communities are born out of individuals being their best selves.’ Yet we’re forced to operate in a system which exerts control by compartmentalising, and a nonprofit industrial complex geared …

News Alliance magazine 27 March 2024

Social impact infrastructure organisations vastly underestimated, Propel Philanthropy report finds

A study, commissioned by Propel Philanthropy and supported by WINGS, has been launched today. The release of the report follows on from an exclusive ten-part series of interviews conducted by Alliance on funding philanthropy’s ecosystem. …

Conference reports Shafi Musaddique 26 March 2024

Cariplo Foundation president on bridging divide between local and global inequalities

Giovanni Azzone cuts a sharp figure. The spectacled and suited president of the Cariplo Foundation, one of Italy’s biggest foundations, is softly spoken – but has big ambitions. With an endowment of 9 million euros, …

Conference reports Shafi Musaddique 26 March 2024

Philea Research Forum: How can foundations shape future innovation

Italian philanthropic tradition stretches back to ancient Rome. Modern Italian philanthropy, however, recently flourished in the 1990s when savings bank foundations emerged. Today they collectively hold half of all Italian philanthropic assets, or 21 per …