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Bellagio Initiative partner welcomes UK Parliamentary report on philanthropic solution to aid in tough times
January 20th, 2012The IDC inquiry concluded that ‘private philanthropy is improving the lives of some of the world’s poorest people but the Department for International Development (DFID) must do more to engage private foundations in coordinated global efforts to improve the effectiveness of aid’.
Bellagio Initiative releases Summit ‘aide-mémoire’
December 16th, 2011The Bellagio Initiative Summit has ended with a determination by development organisations and philanthropists to build mutual trust, share learning and develop joint training initiatives.
Watch, listen and read about the Bellagio Initiative Summit
November 25th, 2011The Bellagio Initiative Summit ended with a determination from participants – both those at the two-week event at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy and those who joined the event online – to strengthen and make more effective future collaboration between philanthropy and development organisations. Key themes emerging from the event focused on trust, [...]
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Commissioned Papers
The Bellagio Initiative commissioned the following papers to feed into the debate about the future of philanthropy and international development in the pursuit of human wellbeing:
The Role and Limitations of Philanthropy
Michael Edwards
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Islamic Philanthropy: Innovations, Development and the Implications for Wellbeing
Mariz Tadros
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Corporate Philanthropy and the ‘Education for All’ Agenda
Kevin Watkins
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Caring for Wellbeing
Marzia Fontana/Rosalind Eyben
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Poverty in Middle-Income Countries
Andy Sumner
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Resource Scarcity, Wellbeing and Development
Alex Evans/Jules Evans
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Values and Human Wellbeing
Tim Kasser
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Transformative Innovations in African Philanthropy
Bhekinkosi Moyo
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Evaluating Development Philanthropy in a Changing World
Robert Picciotto
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