The interview with Paul Gunstensen, Director of WASH Program at the Stone Family Foundation, highlights the Foundation' path towards a strategy of intervention through venture philanthropy

Philanthropy is a risky business and most initiatives, when rigorously tested, do not prove effective. Our interview with Andy Ratcliffe, CEO of Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation (Impetus-PEF), shows the way to funders to define their impact models in the search of greater effectiveness

On occasion of the 20th anniversary of the National Center for Family Philanthropy, we discussed with Vice President Jason Born the tools family foundations are adopting in the search for greater effectiveness, often pushed by the rise of a new generation of philanthropists

Three questions to Debora Guidetti, independent expert and moderator at the 2017 Lang Philanthropy Day

In our interview with Céline Bonnaire, Executive Director of the Kering Corporate Foundation, we discuss the rationale underneath a philanthropic model able to align social change and business and highlight the Foundation’s perspectives and goals in Italy and abroad

Alliance editor Charles Keidan interviews Maurice Makoloo, regional director of the Ford Foundation in eastern Africa, to discuss the relationship between civil society and the private sector, the need for investment in philanthropy infrastructure, and the Ford Foundation's commitment to combating inequality

Our interview with Martin Short, CEO of The Power of Nutrition, analyzes a results-based model to invest in sustainable and scalable initiatives able to contrast undernutrition in children

With an annual grantmaking of more than $109 million and the inauguration of the world’s largest humanitarian award in 1996, the Hilton Foundation’s philanthropic approach lives up to its founder’s motto: “Think Big. Act Big. Dream Big.”

With Rupert Graf Strachwitz, we go through the model of the Maecenata Stiftung - among the main European players in the field of philanthropic mediation - and the rich German scenario that encompasses more than 50,000 foundations

A talk with Leap Ambassador Mari Kuraishi, President of GlobalGiving, on how technology-driven philanthropy can help increasing the effectiveness of social sector organizations