Elika Roohi

London

digital editor @alliancemag, covering #philanthropy and #climate | previously @bahainews, covering community development | AK grown 🐟

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Two of UK’s biggest foundations score C on assessment of foundation practice

1 month ago | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

UK charitable foundations are improving practices on diversity, accountability, and transparency – but slowly, the 2024-25 Foundation Practice Rating, the fourth annual assessment, has found. According to this year’s assessment, the Gastby Charitable Foundation and Quadrature Climate Foundation – two of the biggest foundations in the UK by giving budget – scored a C overall, which raises questions about their accountability to the communities they support.
IPASA launches climate commitment for South African funders

2 months ago | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

The first African funders’ climate pledge launched this week. Organised by the Independent Philanthropy Association of South Africa (IPASA), the South African Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change will organise philanthropic organisations in South Africa to become empowered to act on climate. According to IPASA, the commitment ‘offers funders a framework to act on climate change while staying aligned with their core mission’.
First philanthropic report from a Chinese climate nonprofit presented at COP29

Nov 19, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

China has a growing role in global climate philanthropy – that is the message put forward by the China Environmental Grantmakers Alliance in its most recent impact report, launched at COP29 in Baku this week. ‘Impact Report: Climate Philanthropy Case Studies’ is the first philanthropic report from a Chinese environmental nonprofit at a global climate summit, according toe CEGA.
Arab philanthropy commits to climate

Nov 14, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

Arab philanthropy has pledged to take action on climate injustice by signing the Arab Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change (APCCC), which launched today at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Commitment was launched by the Arab Foundations Forum (AFF) in collaboration with the global Philanthropy For Climate movement, with support from WINGS and the Ford Foundation.
It's the finance COP. What will philanthropy do?

Nov 8, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

Amidst global conflict and political uncertainty, COP29 begins on Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s summit is being called ‘the finance COP’, where agreeing a new climate finance goal is top of the agenda. This financial goal, called the ‘new collective quantified goal’ (NCQG), will be an update to the $100 billion per year target set at Copenhagen’s COP15 in 2009. That goal took 13 years to meet, delayed from the original target.
COF’s Kathleen Enright on political turmoil and the philanthropic future of America

Oct 28, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

It’s increasingly common for billionaires to be at the centre of the political conversation about what they choose to do with their money. But in the US, during this particularly charged campaign, critiques of the philanthropy sector have been more visible than usual. The sector has been thrown into the limelight several times, by Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance, who has referred to big foundations as ‘social justice hedge funds’ and called for an increase in payouts.
Donors of Color Network’s Isabelle Leighton on why storytelling is key to justice

Oct 9, 2023 | alliancemagazine.org | Elika Roohi

Philanthropy always sounds like someone else: that’s the title of a report the Donors of Color Network put out last year, but it’s also a rallying cry for the organisation that convenes funders and networks to think about how to tell the stories of donors who are people of color and get more funding to communities of color.
India Climate Collaborative launches platform to boost climate-based funding - Alliance magazine

Jul 23, 2023 | alliancemagazine.org | Shafi Musaddique |Elika Roohi

The India Climate Collaborative (ICC), a collective dedicated to climate action, has launched a new platform aimed at plugging climate action funding gaps within the country. Dubbed as ‘Earth Exponential’, the platform will bring together funders and non-profit organisations to help “scale up high-impact climate change programmes and improve climate funding efficiency”, said the collective in a statement.
A week in Brazil: Learnings from TPW’s global journey

Jul 23, 2023 | alliancemagazine.org | Sam Underwood |Simon Hungin |Elika Roohi

It is a curious consequence of the pandemic that so many have turned inwards and lost a global perspective. Not just in terms of what we do, but also of what we consider relevant for our learning. TPW’s 2023 Global Journey to Brazil was a reminder of why looking outside of Europe and North America is so important, whether or not we are funding there.
Making the invisible seen and heard

Jul 22, 2023 | alliancemagazine.org | Peter Brach |Simon Hungin |Elika Roohi

This opinion piece is part of Propel Philanthropy’s Collaborative Media Campaign and a response to Rose Maruru’s article, Infrastructure is Invisible but Critical for Systems Change. To provide context, her organization, EPIC Africa, launched the African CSO Platform days ago and weeks after this article was published.