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Why anxiety about philanthropy could make other anxieties worse

Dr Beth Breeze | Director, Centre for Philanthropy, University of Kent, UK Fri, 18 Feb 2022

My grandma was a wise woman. Whenever I got anxious about something as a child - exams, acne, friendship troubles - she was short on analysis and long on solutions: “Don’t worry Beth, but what are you going to do about it?”

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Listening to locals for better granting impacts

Emily Berry, CEO and Johan Kortenhorst, Board Director Thu, 15 Jul 2021

When your community covers more than 20,000 square kilometres of rural land, natural and man-made disasters and emergencies are inevitable.

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Managing adversity through sharing power

Glyn Davis, CEO, Ramsay Foundation Wed, 3 Feb 2021

If poverty was easy to solve, it would not long endure. However, the most promising initiatives are also the most time-consuming.

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Using philanthropy to build affordable housing through alternative financing pathways

Erin Dolan, Program Manager- Homelessness & Affordable Housing, Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation Tue, 1 Dec 2020

​To use what is now a well-established cliché, these are unprecedented times. COVID-19 and the lockdown measures put in place have greatly affected our way of life. They have shown us the importance of having a safe, secure home – and also the large group of people who don’t have one.

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Reconciliation Action Plans – It’s not the tail wagging the dog

Stacey Thomas, CEO, The Wyatt Trust & Board Member, Philanthropy Australia Tue, 10 Nov 2020
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Housing Australians through COVID-19

Erin Dolan, Program Manager – Homelessness and Affordable Housing, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation Wed, 10 Jun 2020

There is a shortage of secure, affordable houses in Australia. We have known this for a while, but with the pandemic, this truth has become starker. 

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