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Published in: 50.50Movements, money and social change: how to advance women’s rightsAt the UN CSW underway in New York, a statement signed by almost 1000 women’s rights organizations calls out the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaForeign aid: development or 'de-development'?
Foreign aid has only incapacitated Palestinians and made them ever more dependent on the west. The aid industry must...
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Published in: TransformationNot just about the money: corporatization is weakening activism and empowering big businessActivist and advocacy organizations increasingly look and act like multinational corporations. Is it worth the...
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Published in: ourNHSNHS funding changes will worsen inequality
The government is planning funding shifts that will reduce access to NHS services where they are needed most.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSovereign Wealth Funds: can they be community funds?The idea that governments should invest some of their wealth for public benefit has moved from utopian dream to...
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Published in: 50.50Women's human rights: Watering the leaves, starving the roots
Women and girls are in the public eye, recognized as key agents in development as never before. So why doesn't the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEdge Fund: a new grassroots fund for social justice
Will those with money ever hand it over to change the systems that enriched them? No, say the Edge Fund, a new...
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Published in: oDRRussian NGOs: the funding realities
Continuing oDRussia's debate on the future for Russian NGO funding, now a view from the coal face. Pavel Chikov is...
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Published in: oDRWhy domestic philanthropy isn’t enough for Russian NGOs
Writing on oDRussia yesterday, Almut Rochowanski argued that Kremlin’s repression of NGOs could work in their favour...
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Published in: oDRWhat do Russians think of their ‘foreign agents’?
In Putin’s Russia, NGOs funded from abroad are now officially considered ‘foreign agents’. However a recent poll...
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Published in: HomeForeign aid to local NGOs: good intentions, bad policy
International solidarity is a wonderful idea, and the notion of transferring resources from North to South for good...
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Published in: oDRRussian government declares ‘cold war’ on civil societyThe draconian laws introduced by President Putin during his first 100 days continue to inflame hearts and minds....
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Published in: HomeRevolutionizing the Canadian social justice sector
Environmental groups seem to have attracted particular government ire. In other cases, officials have labelled civic...
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Published in: 50.50A funding struggle for an HIV prevention in women’s handsScientific decisions over AIDS are in danger of being left at the mercy of economics as scientists and activists...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA radical idea for party funding reform: one-person-one-cardThe disclosure by the Electoral Commission in the UK of donations to the political parties has revived age old...
