Gayle Peterson, an associate fellow at Oxford University's Said Business School, talks about the school's recently-launched impact investing program and shares lessons learned about impact investing from her interviews with social investors around the globe....

Brian Pratt, editor-in-chief of Development in Practice and an associate at the International NGO Training and Research Center, challenges the field of international development to think beyond the current decline in support from government and NGOs....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Geeta Goel, director of mission investing at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, considers the recommendations of Monitor Deloitte's Beyond the Pioneer report....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Alliance magazine associate editor Andrew Milner takes a look at how foundations have been working to help people and institutions navigate the turbulent political climate in Ukraine....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, TrustAfrica program director Tendai Murisa urges philanthropists in Africa and beyond to take a holistic approach to supporting democracy and economic justice on the continent....

Caroline Hartnell chats with Robert Rubinstein, founder of Triple Bottom Line Investing, about what he is doing to persuade the business community to contribute to an economy that takes into account people and the environment as well as profit....

Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell talked with board chair Leila Hessini about the merger, the new organization's goals, and its first project....

The Global Fund for Women is now twenty-five-years old. Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell talks to its president and CEO, Musimbi Kanyoro, about the fund's achievements and challenges over that period, and her vision for a world in which women no longer have to fight for their rights....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Julia Balanina Jaquier, an independent investment expert, shares the views of wealthy young people across the globe who are increasingly attracted to impact investing as an alternative to traditional grant-based philanthropy....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Jeremy Leggett, chair of Carbon Tracker and founder and chair of Solarcentury - as well as a self-described former "creature of the oil and gas industry" - challenges the philanthropic sector to confront four major systemic risks currently at play in the global environment and energy sphere, and embrace the opportunities they present....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Wikimedia Foundation director of grantmaking Anasuya Sengupta speaks with Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell about the philanthropy's priorities, practices, evolving structures, and transparency....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Stephen Pittam, secretary of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, considers the shifting roles of philanthropy as it enjoys its "second golden age," and its potential to support social change....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, social investment and philanthropic adviser Filiz Bikmen shares takeaways from a 2012 meeting between representatives from fourteen emerging-market countries interested in building the reach and benefit of philanthropy in their societies....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Foundation Center president Bradford K. Smith speaks with Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell about foundations and the "new normal"....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Keystone Accountability chief executive David Bonbright probes the evolution of the multi-stakeholder Markets for Good initiative and raises constructive alarm about how it involves beneficiaries....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell interviews the president of Atlantic Philanthropies about why its founder, Chuck Feeney, adopted the limited-life approach, why he doesn't favor the term "spend out," where Atlantic's priorities will lie for the remainder of its existence, and what its influence has been....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell interviews the executive director of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations about their efforts to consolidate and honor a hundred years of family philanthropy....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, economics professor Don Tapscott defines the five principles of "networked intelligence" and urges the philanthropic sector to work collaboratively with stakeholders....