Friday, February 1, 2013 at 05:56AM by Jenny Hodgson 30 participants from all over the globe joined our most recent webinar on community foundations and youth civic engagement which is now available here on our website.
It features the work of two community foundations – one in Slovakia and the other in Brazil – which are working with young people in their communities.
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 05:18AM by Jenny Hodgson Watch Nora Murad’s interview with Executive Director of Dalia Association, a Palestinian community foundation. In Nora’s words, “I recorded this short video with Saeeda Mousa, Executive Director of Dalia Association. In it, she talks about the amazing potential return on investment in the Palestinian community, but it’s not the type of investment that you might be thinking of!”
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 04:38AM by Jenny Hodgson We're pleased to announce two new grants to current partners in South Asia. The first is a grant for $11,000 and is a continuation of the GFCF's support for institutional development of Tewa, the Nepal Women's Fund. Tewa was established in 1996 as an alternative development model aimed at overcoming aid dependency in Nepal and the distortions that international aid also brought about in shaping local civic society and its institutions. Tewa’s institutional roots also derive from the politics of feminist activism and a perception that women’s rights and interests both as an issue and in terms of funding for women’s issues.
Friday, February 1, 2013 at 03:34AM by Jenny Hodgson A new paper by Hilary Gilbert and Mohammed Khedr al Jebaali examines the role that one NGO - a community foundation - has been able to play in promoting civic participation by Bedu, a structurally marginalized minority in Egypt, in the wake of the 2011 'Lotus Revolution'.
Gilbert and al Jebaali (respectively board chair and programme coordinator of the community foundation) tell the story of the Community Foundation for South Sinai (Al mo’assessa‑t‑al ahliya lijanoub sina), which was established in 2006 as a mechanism for promoting local, small‑scale development among Bedouin communities in Egypt’s South Sinai.