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Melinda Fine of TCC Group reflects on IHRFG and Foundation Center’s latest key findings report, Advancing Human Rights: Update on Global Foundation Grantmaking, and its implications for the field of human rights philanthropy.
From July 11-14, over 200 funders from 26 countries gathered in New York for HRFN’s convening, “Seizing Opportunities: Sustaining the Human Rights Movement,” to strategize how human rights funders can shake up conventional ways and means of supporting the movement, and bolster its health and well-being.
At IHRFG’s New York 2015 conference, we put the rights-based approach on trial and encouraged members to critically explore the utility and efficacy of funding with a rights lens. Grantmakers exchanged with and learned from their peers, affirming and challenging their own assumptions.
John M Kabia at the Fund for Global Human Rights shares lessons for human rights funders following the experiences of local civil society and human rights organizations during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Merrill Sovner of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, discusses the divide between philanthropy practice and scholarship in light of IHRFG and Foundation Center’s latest Advancing Human Rights research.
Originally published on the blog Philantopic by Philanthropy News Digest (PND) on July 21, 2016, Maria Amália Souza of the São Paulo-based CASA Socio-Environmental Fund writes about why Global South and East funders are increasingly funding environmental and resource rights and dedicated a larger proportion of their support to capacity-building, coalition building, and collaboration, compared to human rights funders overall.
Originally published on the blog Philantopic by Philanthropy News Digest (PND) on August 2, 2016, Hilal Baykara of the Sabanci Foundation discusses the importance of funding grassroots movements and the value of developing a diversified grantmaking portfolio.
