Edizione 55. Laudes Foundation e l’emergenza climatica / Il piano d’azione europeo per l’economia sociale / Uguaglianza di genere e filantropia
LAUDES FOUNDATION SULL’INTERCONNESSIONE TRA IL CAMBIAMENTO CLIMATICO E L’ACUIRSI DELLE DISUGUAGLIANZE
La Laudes Foundation è nata nel 2020 con il duplice obiettivo di far fronte all’emergenza climatica e di mettere in discussione le pratiche dei diversi settori affinché i processi produttivi e le catene del valore vengano riviste e sviluppate in modo da “rigenerare e ripristinare la natura”.
In questa intervista, Leslie Johnston, CEO della fondazione, racconta la vision e la strategia dell’organizzazione per il futuro.
IL PIANO D’AZIONE EUROPEO PER L’ECONOMIA SOCIALE: QUALE RUOLO PER GLI INVESTITORI AD IMPATTO?
In vista dell’adozione del Piano di azione europeo per l’Economia sociale, Bianca Polidoro, Senior Policy and EU Partnerships Manager di EVPA (European Venture Philanthropy Association), dà una panoramica delle attuali sfide che l’Unione Europea deve affrontare all’interno dell’economia sociale. Offre inoltre cinque raccomandazioni per superare queste problematiche e delinea il ruolo chiave che investitori ad impatto e in generale il settore filantropico potrebbe svolgere.
LA PARITÀ DI GENERE STA DIVENTANDO UNA PRIORITÀ NELL’AGENDA DELLE FONDAZIONI ED ENTI FILANTROPICI – MA ABBIAMO ANCORA UN ELEFANTE NELLA STANZA
In questo articolo, Helene Wolf, Co-Founder e Executive Director di FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders, commenta quanto emerso al Generation Equality Forum e sostiene come se fondazioni ed enti filantropici vogliono agenti di cambiamento ad alto impatto e credibili, devono affrontare il grande elefante nella stanza: l’assenza di donne in posizioni di leadership nelle strutture delle loro organizzazioni.
SCALING NEW HEIGHTS: HOW FAITH-BASED INVESTING CAN REACH ITS POTENTIAL
Faith-based investors represent a small, though growing, portion of the world’s total assets under management. But ‘alliances of goodness’ between faith groups are starting to collaborate and allocate impact-first capital. In the first in our new series, Fajr Capital CEO Iqbal Khan reflects on how far faith-based investing, and Islamic finance in particular, have come – and shares five steps to help climb the mountain ahead.
FUTURE OF PHILANTHROPY IN AFRICA
In recent years, Africa has had to deal with the effects of the pandemic, growing inequality, and the threat of climate change. In addition, individual African countries have faced their own challenges. How has African philanthropy coped with these problems and what shape should it take to deal with those that lie ahead?
ROBERT BOSCH STIFTUNG PUBLISHES STUDY ON DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY, FRANCE, BRITAIN, POLAND AND THE US
Robert Bosch Stiftung has published a new study on democracy “Itʼs Complicated. People and Their Democracy in Germany, France, Britain, Poland, and the United States” providing insight into the attitudes, needs, and ambitions of people in the five countries on the subject of democracy.
LESSONS FROM 3 SOCIAL DISTANCING CAMPAIGNS IN VIETNAM: HOW LEARNING THROUGH PLAY CONTRIBUTED TO AVERT A LEARNING CRISIS
Fighting COVID, dragon-style
Vietnam was one of the first countries to detect local COVID-19 cases in January 2020. The country took decisive action. With remarkable success: in the first 15 months, less than 3000 COVID-19 cases were detected in this country of 98 million citizens – equal to the daily rate of Belgium early 2021.
As part of the social distancing strategy, schools were closed nationwide from February to May 2020. Later, millions of children had to stay at home during periods of 6 to 17 weeks of provincial social distancing campaigns.
With the support of The LEGO Foundation, VVOB set up support mechanisms to prevent a major learning crisis, particularly for the young learners transitioning into primary school. This was not an easy feat in a very traditional, teacher-centred learning system. An online repository and national televised good practice clips reached millions of children, parents and teachers.