The Global Landscape of Philanthropy
Based on more than 20 interviews with some of philanthropy’s foremost actors and thinkers, and on three workshops with professionals and practitioners from civil society networks, foundations, infrastructure organizations or research centres, this report builds and expands on the work previously done on the WINGS Global Institutional Philanthropy Report 2010, and presents a qualitative view of the field, based on the following seven aspects: individual giving; institutional giving; community philanthropy; beyond grants (different uses of philanthropic money); collaboration; philanthropy government and civil society; and, infrastructure organizations.
In the midst of growing challenges – some external and some internal, some manageable and some out of our control – the report also gives some indication of how to move forward, showing specifically how technology can become a strength and an asset for non-profits, how civil society organizations ought to protect themselves against shrinking civic space, how infrastructure organizations can and must rethink their scope and responsibilities, and how philanthropy in general needs to tackle the question of inequality and wealth distribution.
Author: Andrew Milner
Published by: Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS)
Published: February 2018