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May-June 2005
Resources & Links
Activities, Web sites and other cutting-edge information for global givers
Philippine diaspora philanthropy portal now online
The new Philippine Diaspora Philanthropy Portal, www.filipinodiasporagiving.org, offers an information-packed, online mechanism to "promote and mainstream diaspora giving" among the estimated eight million Filipinos living abroad. But the new portal is intended to be more than just a conduit for remittances, says Jeremaiah Opiniano, Executive Director of the Institute for Migration and Development Issues, which developed the website with the support of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium (www.asianphilanthropy.org/appc/). Opiniano hopes that the site will become a lively and wide ranging forum for individuals and organizations interested in information and opportunities for collaborating on transnational migration, development and philanthropic issues.
Alliance Extra online: the latest news and views on global giving
Three years after The Atlantic Philanthropies announced it was going out of business, Chief Executive John Healy reflects on how the organization's decision to spend down an almost $4 billion endowment has affected its style of grantmaking, in an interview in Alliance magazine's online supplement, Alliance Extra. Alliance Extra also offers reports from the recent Asian Social Entrepreneurship Forum and the Global Philanthropy Forum. Also included are highlights of Social Edge's online forum in February on the subject of what it would take to really get global philanthropy going, a topic launched in the December 2004 issue of Alliance magazine. Links to all of the above can be found at www.allavida.org/alliance/allianceextra.html.
© 2005 The Synergos Institute
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