Illustration by Jarek Waszul In the spring of 1889, Andrew Carnegie published an essay on money. If possession confers knowledge, then there was no greater expert on the subject: Carnegie …
Together or alone. Those are fundamentally the two ways philanthropy is carried out all around the world. Each one has different objectives, interacts in distinct ways with grantees and other …
As the world grapples with the devastation in the wake of the Covid-19, some of the hardest hit are the poor and marginalized. It has been well documented that this …
Two weeks before President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa was about to go into full lockdown, the SCAT staff discussed protocols for working in the face of a pandemic. …
Philanthropy has a responsibility to respond to the inequalities revealed by Covid-19 – and graphically underlined by the killing of George Floyd. Many philanthropies have listened to their grantees and …
World Bank data indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause the first increase in global poverty since 1998. Organisations such as Oxfam International argue therefore that it is …
By Daniel Hemel and Joseph Bankman The Ford Foundation announced last week that it would raise the share of its endowment that it spends annually from a little more than 5 percent …
The Gray philanthropy ecosystem in South Africa has made available R180m of funding to assist with the economic, educational and medical shortages created by the coronavirus crisis. The contribution will …