The Sustainable Development Goals will require governments to rethink how they collect and allocate funds, and how private investors and businesses must reorient their practices toward positive social and environmental impacts....

Because the Sustainable Development Goals focus as much on what we must achieve as on how we go about it, the development agenda enables new possibilities for collaboration across sectors and borders, writes the Dasra Girl Alliance's Rachita Vora....

In the latest installment in our Alliance@PND series, Barry Knight, director of the Webb Memorial Trust, shares results from a survey of foundations in twenty-four countries aimed at gauging grantmaker interest in the Sustainable Development Goals....

Robust data systems will be fundamental to ensuring global adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, and philanthropy can help jump-start that process, says Foundation Center vice president for research Larry McGill....

Andrew Milner talks to young donors from Brazil, Switzerland, Ghana, Mexico, Lebanon, and Singapore about the differences between their philanthropic priorities and those of their parents....

In our latest Alliance@PND installment, Jason Franklin, W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, reviews six recent trends in American philanthropy and considers their long-term implications....

Pennington, vice president of the Ford Foundation's Education, Creativity, and Free Expression program, talks with Caroline Hartnell about Ford's new focus on inequality and its commitment to provide more general operating support.... 

Rita Allen Foundation president Elizabeth Christopherson writes in our latest installment of Alliance@PND about the potential of digitally-linked communities to participate creatively and effectively in civic change....

Before he took the helm of Italy's Cariplo Foundation, Urbani headed one of its grantee organizations. In an interview with Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell, Urbani describes his vision for how the foundation's work and image should be developed....

The latest installment of our Alliance@PND series describes the steps nonprofit social lender Root Capital took to build a constituent voice program....

We share a discussion between Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell and Malholtra, the millennial-generation daughter of Indian industrialist Shiv Nadar and one of the trustees of his eponymous foundation, about their family's approach to philanthropy….

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell and Andrew Milner ask funders who support the arts, leaders of arts organizations, and individual artists to answer this perennial question....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell and Andrew Milner share the results of a mini-survey of foundation and NGO leaders' thoughts about the Sustainable Development Goals to be announced later this year….

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell chats with Ridgway White, who became the fourth president of the Mott Foundation early this year, about what lies ahead for the organization his father has headed for almost forty years….

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Jenny Hodgson and Barry Knight ask community foundation leaders in North America and Europe whether organizations like theirs can play a role in global development efforts….

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Alliance magazine editor Caroline Hartnell and associate editor Andrew Milner take a deep dive into New Philanthropy Capital's report 10 Innovations in Global Philanthropy....

In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Simon Willis, CEO of the Young Foundation, argues that if foundations truly want to play an innovative role in society, they must think beyond their standard management practices….

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....