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DIIS seminar: De nye private grænser for udvikling: Fonde, filantropi og global magt
TID: Tirsdag den 13. maj kl. 14.00-16.30
STED: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Main auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51A, 2100 København Ø.
TID: Tirsdag den 13. maj kl. 14.00-16.30
STED: DIIS, Danish Institute for International Studies, Main auditorium, Gl. Kalkbrænderi Vej 51A, 2100 København Ø.
TILMELDING: Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our online registration form no later than Monday 12 May 2014 at noon. Sign up here: http://www.conferencemanager.dk/TheNewPrivateFrontiersofDevelopmentFoundationsphilanthropyandglobalpower/sign-up.html
The New Private Frontiers of Development: Foundations, Philanthropy and Global Power
Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by a growing diversity of actors all eager to make a difference for the world’s poor. Among the most powerful of these are private philanthropic foundations.
While foundations have been important players in international development since the nineteenth century, they have gained renewed influence over development policy over the last ten years.
This is perhaps most cogently illustrated by the rise of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, now one of the most powerful players in global health and development.
Private foundations have largely been lauded for their financial contributions to development and for their alternative policy ideas. But who are these private foundations, what drives them and how are they governed?
What impact are they having on international development cooperation, both in terms of beneficiaries on the ground and in their relationships with other donor organizations? How is their increasing global power manifested, and where?
This seminar will explore these questions and address the growing role of private foundations in development cooperation. After the seminar, Michael Moran will launch his new book Private Foundations and Development Partnerships: American Philanthropy and Global Development Agendas (Routledge, 2014).
Speakers
Michael Moran is Lecturer at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne, after having worked as a research analyst for a leading sustainability and corporate social responsibility ratings agency and in trade policy advocacy in the development NGO sector.
He has consulted widely with the philanthropy and non-profit sectors as well as providing advice to government on social finance and social investment.
Henrik Mahncke is Foundation strategist at the Danish foundation Realdania and research fellow at the Centre of Civil Society Studies at Copenhagen Business School. Prior he was Vice President of the international consulting company Oxford Research advising a large number of Danish foundations in strategic and catalytic philanthropy.
He runs a Danish blog on effective philanthropy and provides advice to foundations, NGOs and government on the role and possibilities of philanthropic cooperation.
Programme
14.00-14.05
Introduction
Adam Moe Fejerskov, PhD Candidate, DIIS
14.05-14.50
American foundations and global development agendas
Michael Moran, Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
14.50-15.05
Coffee Break
15.05-15.25
Perspectives on contemporary philanthropy
Henrik Mahncke, Realdania & Research Fellow, Copenhagen Business School
15.25-16.00
Q & A
16.00-16.30
Reception and Book Launch
Chair: Adam Moe Fejerskov, PhD Candidate, DIIS
The seminar will be in English.
Read more at: http://www.conferencemanager.dk/TheNewPrivateFrontiersofDevelopmentFoundationsphilanthropyandglobalpower/the-event.html
