Introducing the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy: article in the EFC’s Effect magazine
03 Feb 2014
In a recent article in Effect, the magazine of the European Foundation Centre, Jenny Hodgson, executive director of the Global Fund for Community Foundations, introduces the Global Alliance for Community Philanthropy and its goal of making the case for community philanthropy as a key strategy for increasing local ownership and accountability in local development processes.
Good piece, and a very timely initiative. There's an important brokerage role in here to make the resources of large-scale funders accessible to small community philanthropy organizations (for whom small sums are often more useful than big ones, but who aren't normally big enough to apply). I also welcome the emphasis on linking Big Philanthropy with small development practitioners. It's almost a community foundation model in its own right!