On Media
Why does the media treat foundations like first responders?
Why doesn’t philanthropy-focused press coverage reflect the lead role of local communities?
Tirrea Billings
Taking Root
What we’re reading, watching, and questioning across the field
As the global funding landscape changes, who gets to shape what comes next?
Vanessa Stevens
Power in Proximity
When New Wealth Arrives, Which Philanthropy Will It Build?
The next wave of wealth doesn't need to invent a new system to fix the world’s problems. It needs to stop overlooking the one we already built.
Maria Amalia Souza
Introducing… On Media
A new column for Proximate examining narratives, visibility, and the media that shapes how we think about philanthropy
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
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
Filantropia Estratégica no Divã
A Filantropia Estratégica entra na sala da terapista junguiana
Strategic Philanthropy Goes to Therapy
Strategic Philanthropy enters the Jungian therapist's office.
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
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
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
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
Aprofundando a Filantropia: o que queremos dizer com prática?
Uma nova coluna para o Proximate Brasil sobre filantrópicas contemporâneas
Deepening Philanthropy: What is Practice, Anyway?
A new column for Proximate Brasil on regenerative philanthropic practices
The Future of The Localisation Agenda
Are we progressing or digressing? A new column by 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
The Power and Responsibility of Grants Managers
Grants managers can harness positional power to drive meaningful change in the landscape of philanthropy
Want Effective Philanthropy? Look to the Global South
The debate around a recent SSIR cover story misses the global perspective
Introducing: Equity Overhaul by Rachel Kimber
A new column by Rachel Kimber on the journey to shape equity in grants management
The Beautiful Curse: Who Owns Impact?
Donors bring an investment mindset to development. That needs to change
The Story of the Half-Built Road
Three lessons from a human-based approach to development
Introducing: Repairing Development by Isabelle Clérié
A new column for Proximate on community philanthropy and asset-based community development
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
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