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Global Giving
MATTERS
Issue 25
JanuaryMarch 2006
2 Feature: Clinton Global Initiative Putting the private sector to wofor social change
5 Feature: Nike Foundation: Getting girls on the anti-poverty agenda
7 Global Giving Round-Up
Appeal issued to keep door from closing on Open Russia
Unilever and Oxfam assess corporation's impact on poverty in Indonesia
Global Fund's Investing in Women campaign raises $20 million
Philanthropy in China with encouraging social climate
AKDN and Catholic Church in Portugal expand aid to Asia & Africa
Gates jumpstarts $31 billion global TB effort with Davos pledge
Bono seeing Red over new campaign to fight HIV/AIDS
JPMorgan Chase joins US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
Youth job training partnerships launched in Gaza
LaSpada takes the helm at UK's Institute for Philanthropy
In memoriam: Anton Rupert, philanthropist in Southern Africa
11 Resources & Links
Kiva brings peer-to-peer microloans online
E-newsletter promotes global engagement by European foundations
Skoll World Forum March 29-31
Fast Company honors Social Capitalists who are changing the world
Alliance magazine: Philanthropy, 2025
12 Your Ideas Wanted
In This IssueThis issue looks at efforts by former
US President Bill Clinton to get
business leaders and leaders of
other global organizations to work
together for social change. By lever-
aging his broad connections with an
innovative meeting structure that
placed emphasis not just on talk
and networking but also on commit-
ments for action, in just a few days
the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
garnered agreements to fund more
than 200 separate projects valued in
excess of $2 billion by a range of
business, foundations, NGOs and
international agencies. We also look
at one organization that participated
in the CGI's inaugural meeting the
Nike Foundation which is focusing
its energy and resources on
empowering girls as a means for
sustainable development in poor
communities around the world.
Research suggests that programs
directed to girls and women yield a
higher rate of return than virtually
any other investment in the devel-
oping world.
James M. Brasher III, Director
Global Philanthropists Circle
2006 Synergos/World Economic Forum
www.globalgivingmatters.org [email protected]
Synergos
Global Giving Matters presents best
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When former US President Bill Clinton summoned world leaders to the inaugural
meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI www.clintonglobalinitiative.org) in New
York last September, the invitation came with one notable string attached.
Mindful that the event would be viewed by some as just another high-level global net-
working session, Clinton upped the ante by asking each participant to come ready to
make a specific pledge, in writing, for action on one of four agenda items: poverty, reli-
gious conflict, climate change and governance.
Timed to coincide with the opening of the UN General Assembly, the gathering con-
vened a global A-list crowd that one observer said resembled Clintons Palm Pilot
come to life current and former heads of state, business executives, key NGO repre-
sentatives, religious leaders, noted academicians, and celebrity activists.
Through a series of panels and roundtable discussions, participants examined the foursets of challenges framed by Clinton and brainstormed possible solutions. Meanwhile,
Clinton worked behind the scenes to persuade the assembled decision-makers to
commit themselves and their resources to his vision of mobilizing private sector sup-
port for global development.
One of the things that differentiates this conference from many other talking shops is
its absolute, bottom-line focus on results, said Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and
CEO of the global nonprofit venture fund, the Acumen Fund (www.acumenfund.org).
Novogratz, a CGI advisory board member and Synergos Senior Fellow, was a panelist
in a CGI session on pro-poor investment strategy, moderated by Paul Brest, president
of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Indeed, by the end of the three-day event, participants had sponsored and agreed to
fund more than 200 separate projects valued in excess of $2 billion. (See box on next
page for highlights of commitments announced at CGI.)
I had high hopes for the meeting, but the results have been even better than I imag-
ined, Clinton said in transmitting CGIs first progress report in February 2006. He has
agreed to continue sponsoring CGI annually for 10 years. The next meeting will be
held in New York on September 20-22, 2006.
While some pledges appeared to be a repackaging of efforts already underway, and
details on others remain hazy, the strong response suggested a growing demand for
new models of global cooperation and problem-solving.I think this is whats so great about this initiative we have to give opportunities for
people who want to do something to do it, people who may have different interests,
knowledge, and capacities, said Kemal Dervis, administrator of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP). We have to have a decentralized network of activi-
ties where people can really engage in development. . . and that will support the overall
official effort for more resources, better trade policies, and more cooperation. said
Dervis, who was a panelist in a CGI session on new approaches to aid, trade and debt
relief.
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Feature: Clinton Global Initiative Putting theprivate sector to work for social change
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At each days plenary session, Clinton announced the latest commitments and called
sponsors up to the stage of the New York Hilton to accept their signed pledges. While
many of these efforts had been carefully orchestrated in advance, some emerged spon-
taneously out of the creative ferment of the event.
One such example was the partnership forged during the conference by Nike
Foundation (www.nikefoundation.org) president Maria Eitel, to create an action agenda
to champion the fate of girls in the developing world. The project was a collaborationbetween Nike Foundation, the UN Foundation,
the Washington, DC-based International Center
for Research on Women (ICRW), and C.K.
Prahalad, University of Michigan professor, cor-
porate strategist and author of The Fortune at
the Bottom of the Pyramid.
The pledge arose as a natural outgrowth of the
Nike Foundations work to empower girls as a
means for sustainable development in poor
communities around the world. (For an updateon the work of the foundation, see related
article in this issue.) For Eitel, the conference
presented an opportunity to expand her foun-
dations work by raising awareness about the
role of girls in the social and economic life of
communities around the world.
I was inspired by CGI, which brought together
a huge group of influential people, said Eitel.
The question for Eitel was: How can we get
adolescent girls on their agenda? During one of
CGIs breakout sessions on poverty, Eitel hap-
pened to be seated at a discussion table that
included Geeta Rao Gupta, president of ICRW,
and Prahalad.
Following presentations by a panel of speakers
including UNDPs Dervis, President Thabo
Mbeki of South Africa and World Bank presi-
dent Paul Wolfowitz, participants were asked to
come up with specific recommendations for
action.
I was sitting there thinking that the speakers
were moving and inspirational, recalls the
ICRWs Gupta, but while ninety percent of the
examples cited involved investments in women,
no one had mentioned the word women.
This was a critical omission, said Gupta, since
we know now that when you invest in poor
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CGI bottom line: a focus on results
President Clintons call for pledges of action from the private sector to address
poverty, religious conflict, climate change and governance in developing countries
has yielded nearly 300 commitments valued at more than $2 billion.
Nonprofits represented the biggest source of funding (39% of the pledges, or
$970 million), followed by corporations (30%) and individuals (12%). The greatest
percentage of funds went to address poverty (39%) and climate change (36%).
Some of the commitments are fully funded, others are actively seeking funding
and are listed on the CGI website, www.clintonglobalinitiative.org.
Following are some highlights of the pledges made during the inaugural meeting
of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Mohammed Ibrahim, chairman of CelTel, which provides mobile communications
in 13 sub-Saharan African countries, pledged to establish a $100 million private
enterprise fund to support socially responsible African development. The
Sudanese native says profits will be reinvested to develop infrastructure in Africa
and create social dividends.
Elizabeth Funk, vice chair of Unitus, and Maria Otero, president of Accin
International, committed to working together to deliver microfinance services to15 million of Indias underprivileged people by 2015. Bangalores first microfi-
nance center was opened in October 2005.
Tom Hunter, knighted in 2005 for services to philanthropy and entrepreneurship
in Scotland, committed to invest $100 million over the next decade to create a
successful model for sustainable development in an as-yet unidentified country in
Africa. Hunter was a major supporter of the Band Aid and Make Poverty History
campaigns.
Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, a global nonprofit
venture fund that serves people living on less than $4 a day, pledged to commit
up to $1 million during the conference to deliver clean water, health and housing
to the poor; that amount was matched dollar-for-dollar by Cisco Systems and theSapling Foundation at the CGI meeting.
Swiss Re, one of the worlds largest reinsurers, has pledged to facilitate emis-
sions reductions in greenhouse gases by developing a Greenhouse Gas Risk
Solutions unit and by offering structured products for emissions trading. The
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCE) has agreed to serve as a trader on the
exchange. CCE is a greenhouse gas emission reduction and trading pilot pro-
gram for emission reduction and offset projects in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
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women, you get a high rate of return. As the discussion went around the table,
Prahalad added that he would go a step further and say that economic development
cant occur without investment in women and girls. Recognizing that a new kind of
commitment was needed to get girls on the global development agenda, Eitel, Gupta
and Prahalad kept the conversation going after the session ended.
Eitel stepped in with a pledge of $1 million from the Nike Foundation to start a cam-
paign on the value of investing in adolescent girls in developing countries. Gupta,Prahalad and the UN Foundation signed on to support the partnership, with the UN
Foundation bringing another $250,000 to the table. Eitel then scrambled to get an agree-
ment prepared and signed to present to President Clinton before the end of the confer-
ence.
On the final day of the meeting, the new campaign made its debut as President Clinton
called Eitel, Gupta and Prahalad to the podium to acknowledge the partnerships
pledge.
We all know that in the developing world, an extra year of education, for example,
can lead to a permanent lifetime increase in earning capacity of 10 to 15 percent a year,
and that girls are the most likely to be left out of this, Clinton. So any kind of grass-
roots development program that results in more girls having a chance to get equal
access to schools and ultimately to the workplace will lead to a more sustainable
population and a more just society in addition to a more profitable and productive
one.
Each member of the partnership brings something valuable: Nikes communications
savvy and brand recognition worldwide; the UN Foundations access to global leaders;
Prahalads management and marketing expertise; and ICRWs data and technical skills.
Eitel said the partners are fleshing out details of the campaign and seeking support
from additional sponsors.
Meanwhile, Clinton faces the challenge of making sure that the commitments made at
the meeting are fulfilled and the promised projects move forward. For this, CGI has
hired a staff of 10 to monitor the projects, and will rely primarily on four former offi-
cials from Clintons administration who helped organize the conference.
To ensure that the partnerships forged last September move forward, CGI staff are
keeping in touch with project sponsors to monitor progress and provide support.
Letters have gone out to the Nike Foundation and other sponsors of CGI commitments
to inquire about the need for assistance, and all pledge sponsors have been asked to
submit a report for next years CGI meeting.
I go to a lot of conferences, and I expected good networking, but little else to come out
of it, said ICRWs Gupta, whose expectations were exceeded by the end of the three-
day CGI meeting. I ended up being very impressed by the format and the way the
event was organized. By design, CGI gave the projects and partnerships that were
launched greater visibility, and a broader network of support.
Every single thing weve done that is a success is because of the quality of our part-
ners, said Gupta. Im a great believer in partnership, and thats what the CGI is all
about .
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The successful effort of the Nike Foundation (www.nikefoundation.org) to get girls on
the agenda at the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative is a natural out-
growth of the new direction announced by the foundation in 2005.
The organizations work focuses on the more than 500 million girls aged 10-19 in the
developing world today, who bear the burden of domestic responsibility, early sexual
activity and pregnancy, marital violence, and cultural norms that prevent access to
resources, education and social and economic opportunity.
Research by the World Bank and other sources suggests that programs directed to girls
and women yield a higher rate of return than virtually any other investment in the
developing world better maternal and child health, increased school enrollments, and
economic growth and productivity that ripples out to entire communities.
Our focus is on programs and advocacy efforts that are directly linked to two of the
UN Millennium Development Goals, poverty alleviation and gender equality, said
Maria Eitel, president of the Nike Foundation. By inspiring and mobilizing support for
girls empowerment and well-being worldwide, we can not only help change the lives
of individual girls, but also help to transform entire communities.
The re-launch of the foundation, established in 1994, was the culmination of years of
learning begun while Eitel was head of corporate responsibility for parent company
Nike, Inc. With factories in more than 50 countries, Eitel had ample opportunity to
observe conditions affecting girls and women in the workplace and in the community.
After spending 7-1/2 years with the team at Nike, setting the CSR [corporate social
responsibility] agenda through some tumultuous years, I learned a lot of things, thehard way, and I wanted to apply this learning to the foundation, said Eitel.
The foundation was quite passive for a period of time. We didnt infuse it with signifi-
cant budget or leadership. I thought of it as a bit of a diamond in the rough and began
to think about fashioning it into something complementary but not similar to other
programs at Nike, Eitel said.
Eitel consulted widely with other philanthropic experts in an attempt to learn where
Nike could focus the foundation to make a unique effort. During this time, she said she
also became aware of the importance of the role of other stakeholders, of building
strong relationships with people outside of Nike.
What emerged is a revitalized Nike Foundation committed to the goals of poverty alle-viation and gender equality, which it considers inextricably linked. The foundation
takes a holistic approach, and will assist girls in multiple arenas including economic
opportunity; health and security; leadership, voice and rights; education; and social
mobility.
The foundation will act on two levels: through conducting programs on the ground
with community partners in developing countries and by working with global advo-
cacy partners to raise awareness of the value of investing in girls.
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Nike, Inc. has provided the foundation with about $20 million in cash and land dona-
tions for the work ahead. Going forward, the company will direct a portion its annual
giving target of three percent of pre-tax profits to the foundation.
Global partners include the World Bank, the Population Council, the International
Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the Program for Appropriate Technology in
Health and the UN Foundation. ICRW will help monitor and evaluate all of the founda-
tions projects, and will gather data to close the information gap on the value ofinvesting in girls.
The Nike Foundation is working with local and national nonprofit organizations in the
five countries it has selected for its initial focus: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia
and Zambia. In the first round of grantmaking re-focusing on girls, in September 2005
the foundation announced 11 projects totaling more than $5 million.
These include initiatives to prevent early marriage in Ethiopia, keep girls in school in
Zambia, and to create rural learning centers in Bangladesh to provide a safe haven for
girls to socialize and obtain access to information on personal finance, careers, and
reproductive health. Ultimately, Eitel expects the work of the foundation and its part-
ners to yield lessons on the value of investing in girls that would be applicable to a
range of development settings.
What were trying to do is to engage in a dynamic way to change the paradigm-to
transform the way that girls are seen and taken advantage of in poverty, said Eitel.
She noted that the contributions of girls in the developing world are enormous but
largely undervalued.
The silent, unpaid labor of girls carrying water, collecting firewood, caring for sib-
lings or sick family members is the backbone of family and community, Eitel said.
She added that the sacrifices expected of girls, such as forgoing education, exact a high
cost on individuals as well as society.
We envision a world where girls are valued, have choices and are part of society, con-
tributing their enormous capabilities to income generation and progress in their family,
community and nation, said Eitel.
Over my lifetime, Im hoping to see some kind of catalytic change in the way people
value adolescent girls and invest in their well being. Our new foundation will be a
highly passionate and energetic participant in that journey.
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Appeal issued to keep door from closing on Open RussiaWith Open Russias founder, chairman and major donor languishing in a Siberian
penal colony, its program director Irina Yasina visited Washington in January to shore
up support for the nonprofit organization. Open Russia (www.openrussia.info) wasfounded in 2001 by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who became a billionaire as the head of
Yukos oil company. In a case widely criticized by human rights groups as politically
motivated, last October Khodorkovsky was sentenced to eight years in prison for tax
evasion and fraud. The foundation has spent about $60 million on projects ranging
from human rights and democracy-building to education and culture. Khodorkovsky
was able to mobilize $12 million for Open Russia for 2006, but prospects for 2007 are
unclear, in light of a new law cracking down on nonprofit groups in that country. The
Open Society Institute (www.soros.org), which served as a model for the foundation,
has offered assistance with awards of $750,000 to three programs supported by Open
Russia. In an interview with the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Yasina discussed the chal-
lenges facing Open Russia and other nonprofit groups operating in Russia. (Chronicleof Philanthropy, February 9, 2006)
Unilever and Oxfam assess multinational corporations impact on poverty inIndonesiaDoes international business investment help or hinder the fight against poverty? That
was the question addressed in a collaborative study by Unilever and Oxfam that exam-
ined the socio-economic impact of the corporations operations in Indonesia over a two-
year period. Oxfam said its findings forced the organization to revise some of its
assumptions about big business, and made it more alert to differences in the way that
multinational companies operate. During the countrys financial crisis of 1997-8, for
example, Unilever chose to adapt and strengthen its business practices in Indonesiarather than withdrawing, unlike many other multinationals. According to Oxfam, the
study of Unilever yielded a variety of lessons for NGOs interested in the impact of big
business on poverty. The jointly funded report is available at www.oxfam.org.uk and
www.unilever.com.
Global Funds Investing in Women campaign raises $20 millionThe Global Fund for Women (www.globalfundforwomen.org), the largest foundation in
the world that focuses exclusively on advancing womens rights internationally, is cele-
brating the successful conclusion of its $20 million Investing in Women Campaign. The
campaign supports the $10 million Legacy Fund, an endowment of unprecedented sizeto address womens issues, and the $10 million Now or Never Fund, which permits
rapid response to urgent threats to womens rights around the world. The Global
Fund models how getting money to successful organizations working in communities
in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East wherever
womens rights are threatened maximizes the impact of a US-based philanthropy,
said Sakena Yacoobi, a Global Fund board member from Afghanistan. The campaign
drew donations from all over the world, ranging from $5 dollars to $3.8 million. Since
1987, the Global Fund has awarded over $44 million to nearly 3,000 groups in 162
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Links to websites with
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countries working on issues such as such as the trafficking of women, risks facing
women in war zones, and threats to women from natural disasters. (Global Fund for
Women News Release, November 10, 2005)
Philanthropy in China with encouraging social climateAs China becomes richer but more divided, government officials are calling on the
countrys growing affluent class to give something back to the tens of millions ofChinese citizens still living on less than a dollar a day. With 2005 one of the worst years
in recent memory for natural disasters, in January 2006, Chinas vice minister of civil
affairs Li Liguo appealed for help from the private sector. He pledged that in return the
government would step up the introduction of incentives such as new tax breaks to
create a more encouraging social climate for private giving. In a recent report calling
for greater corporate generosity, the state-controlled China Daily noted that just 1% of
the countrys 10 million companies had given to charity in 2005. While private chari-
table organizations are gaining more acceptance in China, only 100 national-level
groups have been recognized in the past decade. Some private donors are stepping in
with their own good works, such as Huang Rulun, the founder of the Jinyuan property
and investment group, who was Chinas top giver in 2005, donating $34.8 million torelieve poverty and build schools. Rupert Hoogewerf, the British compiler of an annual
ranking of Chinas top philanthropists, the Hurun Report (www.hurun.net), noted that
philanthropy was still an immature industry in China, but predicted that the number
of wealthy donors like Mr. Huang would continue to grow. With many of Chinas new
super-rich self-made men who experienced poverty in their youth, they can
empathize with the have-nots, Hoogewerf said. (Guardian (UK), January 10, 2006)
AKDN and Catholic Church in Portugal expand aid to Asia & AfricaThe Roman Catholic Patriarchate of Lisbon andAga Khan Foundation Portugal have
agreed to expand their support for an urban community program to address problemsof social exclusion and poverty alleviation in the Portuguese-speaking countries of
Africa and Asia. The program aims to help improve the quality of life of marginalized
groups by building the capacity of communities to assess their own needs and to
manage their own social and economic development. The agreement follows eight
years of dialogue and cooperation between institutions of the Catholic Church and the
Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN www.akdn.org) in Portugal and
Mozambique. The protocol signed last December covers the extension of existing work
in Mozambique, Afghanistan, Pakistan and East Timor, and paves the way for future
cooperation in other places. AKDN, founded by theAga Khan, the spiritual leader of
the Ismaili Muslims, is a group of private, non-denominational development agencies
working to improve living conditions and opportunities, especially in sub-SaharanAfrica, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East. (AKDN News Release, December
20, 2005)
Gates jumpstarts $31 billion global TB effort with Davos pledgeMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates said his foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org) would triple its funding to combat tuberculosis
over the next decade, to $900 million. The announcement came as government minis-
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ters and health experts at the World Economic Forums annual meeting at Davos said
an extra $31 billion would be needed on top of the $25 billion already planned. This is
a very tough disease. It its going to take all of us the private sector, the pharmaceu-
tical companies, philanthropies and governments in countries that have the disease, to
participate as well, Gates said at Davos. The extra funding would permit implementa-
tion of a plan by the Stop TB Partnership to treat 50 million people worldwide over the
next decade and prevent 14 million deaths from tuberculosis. The partnership is aninternational network of public and private groups working to end tuberculosis as a
public health problem by 2050. (Reuters, January 27, 2006)
Bono seeing Red over new campaign to fight HIV/AIDSAlso at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, rock star Bono unveiled a new
campaign to fight HIV and AIDS in Africa. Among the companies lining up to join
with Bono in the effort areAmerican Express, Converse, Gap, and Giorgio Armani. The
companies will sell a variety of products under a new brand called Red and dedicate
a portion of revenues to combat HIV and AIDS. Amex is creating a Red credit card to
be marketed first in the UK, in March 2006. Other Red products expected out in the
spring of 2006 include Converse sports shoes made with African mud-cloth; a new lineof Gap T-shirts; and wraparound Emporio Armani sunglasses bearing the Red logo.
AmexCo has agreed to donate 1% of Red card transactions, plus 1.25% of any spending
above 5,000 a year to the Red campaign. Money from Red sales will go to the Global
Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (www.theglobalfund.org) , a public-private
partnership that has committed $4.5 billion to combat those diseases since its creation
in 2002. The focus of Red donations will be for HIV/AIDS interventions for women and
children. (Financial Times, January 25, 2006)
JPMorgan Chase joins US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
JPMorgan Chase has joined the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership (BPP www.borderpartnership.org) with a social investment of $210,000 to improve the quality
of life in the border region. This marks the first contribution to the partnership from
the business sector. The BPP is a collaboration of international, national and regional
foundations and 22 community foundations dedicated to improving the quality of life
of low-income residents in the border region. The Synergos Institute serves as coordi-
nator for the. JPMorgan Chase joins ten other funders including the Ford Foundation,
the Houston Endowment and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in strengthening
community foundations on both sides of the border. The global financial services firm
will work with BPP partners to improve financial literacy and build family assets in
border communities. One of our major goals is to help build assets and wealth cre-
ation in low and moderate income communities, said Kimberly Davis, President of theJPMorgan Chase Foundation. We are especially excited about this effort because it
supports a broad-based consortium partnering with Latin/Hispanic immigrant commu-
nities along the entire US-Mexico border region, an area where JPMorgan Chase has a
significant and growing presence.
Youth job training partnerships launched in GazaBuilding on the rapid growth of its partnerships in Egypt and Jordan, the Education for
Employment Foundation (EFE www.efefoundation.org) has recently launched new
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Activities, web-
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cutting-edge
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Resources & Links
Kiva brings peer-to-peer microloans onlineA few clicks of the mouse can connect individuals wishing to help finance microenter-
prises in poor communities to microentrepreneurs in the developing world who can
use that financing. Kiva (www.kiva.org), a recently launched web-based nonprofit isenabling individuals to loan small sums of money through the PayPal service to needy
individuals without the need for an intermediary such as a bank or microfinance insti-
tution. Potential lenders can view profiles of microentrepreneurs and their plans
online, review a summary of their financing to date, and make a loan of as little as $25
online. In its first months of operation, the website facilitated enough microloans
through its Uganda partnerVillage Enterprise Fund to fund over 30 businesses in that
country. Kiva recently announced partnerships with the Shurush Initiative in the West
Bank and Gaza, REDC Bulgaria, CRESP Senegal and Prisma Microfinance. The first
round of local microbusinesses posted to Kiva by the new partners are available for
review at Kivas website. (AlterNet, December 15, 2005; Kiva Update, February 9, 2006)
E-newsletter promotes global engagement by European foundationsEurope in the World (EITW), an online portal for European foundations interested in
global development, has launched a web-based news service. EITWs monthly News
Digest highlights information on and for foundations that are working internationally
or that want to get involved in international work. It provides updates on grants and
initiatives, opportunities to collaborate, good practice in funding global development
relevant reports and resources, and key events on the international donors calendar. To
subscribe, visit www.europeintheworld.info. (PhilanthropyUK Newsletter, December
2005)
Skoll World Forum March 29-31With the social sector approaching a tipping point, the 2006 Skoll World Forum on
Social Entrepreneurship (skollworldforum.sbs.ox.ac.uk), is aiming a spotlight on the
variety of financial mechanisms for social change. Through a series of speakers, semi-
nars, workshops and case studies, the Forum will explore topics such as mezzanine
finance, debt and equity-like offerings, leveraging of non-financial assets such as cul-
tural or social capital, and the potential for creating a social stock market and longer-
term investment funds that factor in social and environmental risks. The Forum will
focus on ways that social entrepreneurs, philanthropists and social investors, govern-
ments and multilateral agencies, the finance sector and business can add value to one
another. Speakers include former US Vice PresidentAl Gore and David Blood, ex-CEOof Goldman Sachs Asset Management; Mo Ibrahim, Chair of CelTel International, a fast-
growing mobile telecommunications company in sub-Saharan Africa; representatives
of tribal groups from southern India; Jan Piercy, advisor to ShoreBank Corporation
and ShoreCap International, and many more.
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Fast Company honors Social Capitalists who are changing the worldThe January/February issue of Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com) presents winners
of the magazines 2006 Social Capitalist awards, 25 entrepreneurs who are using
business smarts to tackle social woes, and changing the world. A special online edi-
tion accompanying the January issue includes full profiles of the winners and finalists,
an explanation of the methodology used in the contest, and ways to donate. Several
among the top 25 are working globally, includingAccin International, GrameenFoundation USA, Heifer International, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
and Unitus. Unitus (www.unitus.com), founded and chaired by Mike Murray, a member
of the Global Philanthropists Circle, identifies the highest potential microfinance insti-
tutions in developing countries and helps speed their growth with investments and
consulting.
Alliance magazine: Philanthropy, 2025How might the world of philanthropy look in the year 2025? Find out in the December
2005 issue ofAlliance magazine (www.alliancemagazine.org), which explores the chal-
lenges and opportunities presented by new people, tools and pressures in the field.
Guest editors are Katherine Fulton and Gabriel Kasper of the Monitor Institute. The
issue examines the future of philanthropy in the US, India, the Philippines, Mexico,
Brazil, Central Europe, Russia and East Africa. It also features interviews with the new
heads of the Council of Foundations and the European Foundation Centre, Steve
Gunderson and Gerry Salole. Barbara Merz and Lincoln Chen weigh in on the growing
importance of remittances to Mexico from Mexicans living and working in the US. Also
the February edition of the onlineAlliance Extra features an interview with Bob Dunn,
the new president of Synergos.