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- And the winner of the first Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize is …
- Call for applications for joint action research pilot to map community philanthropy institutions' work on the environment!
- Moving forward with a Haiti community foundation: Q & A with Marie-Rose Romain Murphy
- News from the field: Growing social justice philanthropy, weaving strong communities in the Arab Region and a new blog on community driven development from Amazon Partnerships
- Small grants make big differences globally: Mott Foundation profiles GFCF
- Community philanthropy in emerging markets: building something new for the future
- "Currency of giving goes beyond the dollar, rand and euro"
- Grantmaking by and for young people has gone global: from the Mott Foundation
- Watch our webinar on community foundations engaging youth in Brazil and Slovakia
- Palestine, Russia & South Africa: community foundations on film
- Latest grants in South Asia and new grantee profiles now available on our website!
- Promoting Bedouin participation in Egypt: new paper examines the role of the Community Foundation for South Sinai
- "The Value of Community Philanthropy" now available in Russian
- MyMachine in South Africa: 1,000 children welcome Scrappy the Recycing Robot
- Youth and community philanthropy: reflecting on the GFCF’s Youth Civic Engagement Programme
- A global conversation about the power and the state of community philanthropy: GFCF partners meet in South Africa
- Next Door Neighbours Half Way Round the World: from Minnesota to Perm
- Russia’s rural philanthropy: reporting from a community foundation conference in Perm
- Support organizations offer great roadmap for community foundation field
- Who will you nominate for the Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize?
- Technology, social media and innovative thinking for social change: join the conversation TODAY!
- Judges announced for the Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize
- New report on African community foundations and their "different kind of wealth"
- New grants include an environmental initiative in Costa Rica and a community foundation start up in South Africa – plus Zimbabwe, South Africa and the Philippines
- Call for applications for the 2013 Senior International Fellows Program for community foundation practitioners and grantmakers
- MyMachine travels from Belgium to South Africa to build the machines of children's dreams...
- The GFCF is looking for a consultant to support its strategic development
- New grants to Naseej and South Asia Women’s Fund; grants to provide ongoing support in Vietnam, India, Mexico
- Rubtsovsk community foundation: building philanthropy and civic engagement in one of Russia’s “dying cities”
- Changes to the GFCF board
- Mott Foundation profiles the global community foundation field
- Announcing the Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize
- Free subscriptions from Alliance magazine. Sign up by the end of August!
- Regional philanthropy conferences coming up in Cairo and Johannesburg
- Submit your session ideas for the next CFC Conference, Winnipeg, June 2013
- Looking back: looking forward – reflecting on African philanthropy then and now
- New book on the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland: a valuable resource to the global community philanthropy field
- Getting to grips with YouthBank: a Q & A, plus other new YCE resource now available
- Community Philanthropy with a Social Justice Approach: The Added Value
- PhotoSpeak: Photography: a new lens on youth civic engagement?
- New white paper on Empowering Communities in Resource Extraction Regions
- "How development work can be effective and respectful": blog highlights the work of the Community Foundation for South Sinai
- Interview with Indira Jena, Founder and Executive Director of Nirnaya Women’s Fund
- New report from the GFCF and Coady Institute: The New Generation of Community Foundations
- YouthBank webinar attracts participants from 18 countries
- Spotlight on the Dalit Foundation, GFCF grant partner
- Foundations Partner to Promote Report on Community Philanthropy in Washington DC
- Aga Khan Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation release report on the role of community philanthropy and aid effectiveness
- Want to know more about YouthBank? Join our webinar on March 14th
- Second community foundation workshop in Haiti: practitioners from Kenya, Mexico and Brazil share their experiences
- Remembering Olga Alexeeva and her contribution to global – and community - philanthropy
- Youth Civic Engagement Programme: new grants
- Anita Vitullo moves on from the GFCF board, WINGS appoints new board members
- New grants to two community philanthropy partners in Asia
- Lessons from the field: the experience of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
- Our new-look home page: plus, TCFN archive shifts to our new user-friendly resource section
- GFCF hosts Global Peer Learning on Community Foundations and Youth Civic Engagement in Romania
- “Rooted in the country, rooted in the community”: The Story of the Balkan Community Initiatives Fund
- Statement from GFCF grantee, Dalia Association, initiating a campaign to reform international aid to Palestine in run up to Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
- “Nothing really made it easy except that things got complicated”: the story of the Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation
- Getting going with youth programmes in South Africa and Zimbabwe
- The GFCF awards three new grants to partners in Asia
- "The Story behind the Well": a new report from the GFCF and Coady International Institute
- Exploring the idea of a community foundation for Haiti
- New Johannesburg office for the GFCF
- New report reveals a rich and vibrant community philanthropy sector in Colombia
- From Alliance magazine: news from the US community foundation field
- GFCF announces new grants for Youth Civic Engagement
- GFCF launches its new website
- African community foundations gather in Nairobi
- News from our partners
- South-East Asian Community Foundations gather in Bangkok – and a new regional network is born
- News from the community foundation field
- Latest news
- Disaster relief
- Prešov Community Foundation in peril