In 2011 the Rockefeller Foundation and IDS in Sussex launched the “Bellagio Initiative” to explore the future of philanthropy in the context of international development and wellbeing. I wrote one of the background papers for them, looking at different approaches to philanthropy in the global arena, which you can access here.
In addition, the Foundation Center in New York asked me to write a series of blog posts about key issues in this debate which appeared on their website. Here they are:
Can Philanthropy Put Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again?