This piece originally appeared on the LinkedIn page of György Hámori.   Over the past five years, I have worked at the Roots and Wings Foundation, where we have had the rare opportunity to develop our own funding programmes to support local civil society in Hungary — using flexible, partnership-based models. In Hungary’s small support ecosystem, there are organizations who redistribute public international funds, such as from the EU, EEA or US government sources. We are all part of the same fragile ecosystem, each playing a different role, but sharing a common responsibility: to ensure that the ways we support civil society...

  This blog originally appeared on the LinkedIn page of Madonna Vicky Ainembabazi.    David McCullough reminds us that “history is a guide to navigation in perilous times.” As I made my way to the Serena Kigali Hotel for the 9th East Africa Philanthropy Conference, I found myself reflecting not just on the journey that had led us to Kigali’s crisp urban air, but on the longer journey of civil society. How did we get here? Civil society was once indistinguishable from community. It lived in cooperatives like Banyankore Kweterana, or the Ghana Marketing Association, in women’s groups like the Women’s National Coalition, in student...