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On Media

Introducing… On Media

A new column for Proximate examining narratives, visibility, and the media that shapes how we think about philanthropy

Tirrea Billings

Homegrown Horizons

Africa's Next Philanthropic Architecture

From Addis Ababa to Sudan, leaders are building the institutions needed to move decisions closer to community

Vincent Mwangi

The Hidden Infrastructure of Climate Finance

What NEAR's new report and London Climate Action Week revealed

Maria Amália Souza

Repairing Development

The Future of Development is Stuck on Semantics

When we focus too much on definitions, real needs go unmet

Isabelle Clérié

Proximate Brasil

Filantropia Estratégica no Divã: Segunda Sessão

A segunda parte de uma série

Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Seeding Power

The Land Remembers As Communities Re-member Africa's Food Sovereignty

Agroecology and participatory funding are two sides of the same coin

Vincent Mwangi

Proximate Brasil

Filantropia Estratégica no Divã

A Filantropia Estratégica entra na sala da terapista junguiana

Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Proximate Brasil

Strategic Philanthropy Goes to Therapy

Strategic Philanthropy enters the Jungian therapist's office.

Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Equity Overhaul

It’s Time to Rewrite the Job Description

A dispatch from PEAK2025 on how grants managers are leading on equity, tech adoption and institutional change

Rachel Kimber

Proximate Brasil

É possível dizer que a filantropia expressa as chamadas características femininas?

A filantropia feminina está mudando o sistema - ou apenas a ótica? Um olhar fundamentado sobre gênero e doações

Joana Ribeiro Mortari e Patricia Kunrath

Proximate Brasil

Is it possible to say that philanthropy expresses so-called feminine characteristics?

Is feminine philanthropy changing the system—or just the optics? A grounded look at gender and giving

Joana Ribeiro Mortari and Patrícia Kunrath Silva

Homegrown Horizons

Out of Tune and Out of Time! The Harmful Stereotypes of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

The song reflects a past era of development that led to decades of error

Vincent Mwangi

Proximate Brasil

Aprofundando a Filantropia: o que queremos dizer com prática?

Uma nova coluna para o Proximate Brasil sobre filantrópicas contemporâneas

Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Proximate Brasil

Deepening Philanthropy: What is Practice, Anyway?

​​A new column for Proximate Brasil on regenerative philanthropic practices

Joana Ribeiro Mortari

Homegrown Horizons

The Future of The Localisation Agenda

Are we progressing or digressing? A new column by Vincent Mwangi

Vincent Mwangi

Grassroots Grantmaking

Reporting is Broken. It’s Time To Do a Hard Thing and Fix It.

Oral reporting and other innovations can be better, fairer and easier on grantees

Rachel Kimber

Grassroots Grantmaking

The Power and Responsibility of Grants Managers

Grants managers can harness positional power to drive meaningful change in the landscape of philanthropy

Rachel Kimber

Repairing Development

Want Effective Philanthropy? Look to the Global South

The debate around a recent SSIR cover story misses the global perspective

Isabelle Clérié

Grassroots Grantmaking

Introducing: Equity Overhaul by Rachel Kimber

A new column by Rachel Kimber on the journey to shape equity in grants management

Rachel Kimber

Repairing Development

The Beautiful Curse: Who Owns Impact?

Donors bring an investment mindset to development. That needs to change

Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development

The Story of the Half-Built Road

Three lessons from a human-based approach to development

Isabelle Clérié

Repairing Development

Introducing: Repairing Development by Isabelle Clérié

A new column for Proximate on community philanthropy and asset-based community development

Isabelle Clérié

Community-Driven Journalism

BIPOC Media Leaders Welcome Press Forward – With Caution

Publishers ask: how does equity fit into the goal of "saving the news"?

Sherrell Dorsey