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By Louise Driver, Executive Director, IPASA Last quarter’s newsletter I closed with a question: what would it mean for philanthropy to treat uncertainty as the
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By Fia van Rensburg, IPASA Knowledge Manager IPASA spoke to Tess Nolizwe Peacock, Founder and Executive Director of the Equality Collective about their work in the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, about
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By Jennifer Bisgard, Independent Senior Evaluator, and Jerusha Govender, Director at Palmer Development Group Measuring success amid change and uncertainty Geopolitics has entered a period of profound instability. The governance architecture that shaped the post-Second World
By Hlengiwe Ndlovu – Associate Professor & Deputy Director: Special Initiatives and Partnerships, Centre of African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI), Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand. Philanthropy is operating in a
By Hlengiwe Ndlovu – Associate Professor & Deputy Director: Special Initiatives and Partnerships, Centre of African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI), Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand. Philanthropy is operating in a complex and
By Louise Driver, Executive Director, IPASA If 2025 signalled that the ground beneath us was shifting, the opening months of 2026 have confirmed it. Just