Do you want to #ShiftThePower with your talent? We are currently seeking cartoonists to create a series of cartoons/comics under the theme of “shifting power”! It was back in 2016 that we first introduced the hash-tag #ShiftThePower. Our plan was very practical: we wanted to promote a conference that we were organizing in Johannesburg in December of that year. Since then, #ShiftThePower has become the rallying cry for multiple conversations around people, power and resources, and is now a broad movement of individuals and organizations tired of the status quo who are working towards a more equitable system of international development. Too often, external...

  Johannesburg, 17 February 2021 – The Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) is delighted to announce our participation in an exciting new partnership with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs that will invest in community philanthropy development in eight countries. The five-year, €24 million programme will be implemented in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Palestine and Uganda, and is led by a consortium of four organizations:  the Africa Philanthropy Network, Kenya Community Development Foundation, GFCF and Wilde Ganzen. The aim of Giving for Change – part of the Dutch government’s ‘Power of Voices’ programme – is to foster local giving...