Education
Education is a right. It is also the most requested service, and key, to helping communities move towards peace and prosperity. Supporting education is a recognition of people’s enormous potential and the right to a better future. Philanthropic foundations and individuals play an increasingly important role in attempts to enhance the performance of school systems and […]
Governance & Leadership
The concepts of leadership and governance encompass strategic direction, plans and policies, effective oversight, regulation, motivation, and partnerships that integrate all social and economic systems building blocks to achieve results.Leadership involves strategically developing and implementing plans and policies with accountability and transparency. Good leadership, which requires the ability to face challenges to achieve results in […]
Causes
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Economic & Social Development
Social empowerment is understood as the process of developing a sense of autonomy and self-confidence, and acting individually and collectively to change social relationships and the institutions and discourses that exclude poor people and keep them in poverty. Poor people’s empowerment, and their ability to hold others to account, is strongly influenced by their individual […]
Girls & Women
Gender matters in philanthropy. Philanthropy for girls’ and women’s causes encompasses multiple funding interests globally.These include health, human rights, safety, social and economic equality, representation in the arts, and even infrastructure issues related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Women’s and girl’s issues are receiving attention from an increasing number of funders with a diverse […]
Health
In Sub Saharan Africa, 22 million people live with HIV/AIDS, one child in five dies from malaria, one woman in sixteen dies during pregnancy or childbirth, and there are 750 thousand new cases of tuberculosis every year. Health is an area of intense focus for philanthropy, fuelled by a sense of urgency about the need […]
Food Security & Nutrition
Around one in four people in sub-Saharan Africa is malnourished and tackling food insecurity is a huge challenge. Philanthropists, NGOs and Foundations alike are putting a lot of money, resources into supporting agriculture to improve livelihoods. Working in most of Nigeria’s 36 states, TechnoServe (Nigeria) partners with a variety of public and private funders in […]
Environment
Environmental philanthropy refers to the giving of time and money in support of environmental issues through environmental nongovernmental organizations. Many governments, while nominally addressing the issue of climate change are, by their nature, focussed on the short term solutions and often don’t look at the wider picture. Philanthropy is ideally placed to help address these […]
Cultural Preservation
Cultural preservation includes documenting and studying languages; preserving and restoring historic relics significant to a culture or heritage; and encouraging the preservation and use of indigenous or tribal languages and rituals. Several non-profits are working towards cultural preservation, language, monuments, and heritage, all of which cannot be done without the contribution of philanthropists and like-minded […]