Kate Balding

3 weeks ago | alliancemagazine.org | Kate Balding

How will philanthropy introduce itself, and large, unrestricted grantmaking, to a new generation of wealth owners? Every year, Oxford University Press announces its word of the year—a word or phrase, intended to capture the mood and conversations that have shaped contemporary society in the preceding 12 months. For context, our most recent cohort of winners includes ‘goblin mode’ and ‘rizz’, while 2024 landed on the grotesque (if not evocative) ‘brain rot’.

1 month ago | alliancemagazine.org | Kate Balding

After a busy few days reporting at the Philanthropy Asia Summit 2025, Alliance features editor, Kate Balding, caught up with CEO of Philanthropy Asia Alliance, Mr. Shaun Seow, to discuss the future of philanthropy in the region. Kate Balding: Shaun, as the new CEO of Philanthropy Asia Alliance (PAA) you’ve been given the task of propelling PAA through its next phase of growth but for those uninitiated, who are PAA and what are its aims?

1 month ago | alliancemagazine.org | Kate Balding

Downtown Singapore saw storm clouds gather for day one of the 2025 Philanthropy Asia Summit (PAS). Energy fitting, not for any turbulence in proceedings but for the feeling that something prescient and long-awaited was about to break.  Over the duration of the four-day conference, held at the illustrious Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre, cheque-book philanthropy was duly pushed aside, and catalytic philanthropy rose to take its place.

Mar 3, 2025 | alliancemagazine.org | Kate Balding |Mohamed Ahmed |Hannes Einsporn |Muhsin Hassan

Editorial At the time of writing (February 2025), the Trump administration has offered buyouts to most government workers, dismissed or reassigned hundreds of officials, abolished government diversity programmes, and overhauled (or perhaps, by the time we go to print, completely decimated) the Agency for International Development (USAID).

Jul 16, 2024 | pioneerspost.com | Kate Balding |Alina Klarner |Laura Joffre

In a vibrant redbrick building in north Liverpool, clothes are not the only things getting a freshen up. Kitty’s Launderette is an ecological laundry and dry-cleaning service that has been offering a new approach to what it means to be a good business since 2019. They’re a worker-community cooperative, a thriving commercial operation and a resoundingly social enterprise.