The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified in Congress yesterday about antisemitism on campus, telling lawmakers, among other things, that calls for...
African leaders, alongside global philanthropists and the UAE, pledged a combined sum of $777.2 million in a bid to help tackle neglected tropical diseases rising as a result of the climate crisis.
The commitment was announced at COP28’s ‘Reaching the...
In our dedication to shifting power within ‘global development’, we have often reflected that one of the most overlooked but most influential aspects of any power structure is the language and terminology that we use in our everyday work....
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Moore v. United States, which will determine if the federal government can collect taxes on unrealized gains…
The American Jewish Committee, Jewish Federations...
SDGs – time to bring youth into the frame
Alliance’s special feature in our September 2023 issue looked at philanthropy’s contribution to the SDGs
Stefan Germann from Fondation Botnar comments:
Alliance’s latest feature (Understanding SDG-speak, September 2023) reminds us that we are...
In the early years of the Christian era, Pliny the Younger, then administrator of the Roman province of Bithynia-Pontus, wrote to the Emperor Trajan asking for permission to establish a ‘society of 150 firemen’ in the city of Nicomedia,...
When war broke out on Oct. 7, Sahar Vissozki, who owns a wine bar and a coffee shop in Tel Aviv, went into the reserves. So did his business partners, Tal Malichi and Yonatan Vaknin.
With no one to run...
From deadly wildfires to record-breaking storms to life-threatening heat waves, climate change has brought disastrous effects that are profoundly impacting human health and increasing young people’s anxiety about their future. This is especially true for young people from under-resourced...
Canadian-Israeli businessman and philanthropist Sylvan Adams donated $100 million to Ben-Gurion University in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. The funds will go to advancing education and campus life at the university as part of...
