Who, What, Why, Where and How? - Youth Councils in Foundations

This report aims to show German funding organizations the positive effects of children and young people's active participation in grant-making decisions, and encourage the organizations to establish their own youth councils or take other steps to enable participation. In order to make this as easy as possible for the organizations, we set out quality criteria and success factors and suggest first steps that can be taken. Three of the programs run by German foundations that are profiled are covered in depth. By making youth councils and youth participation more widespread, the democratic process is strengthened and the legal rights of young people anchored in reality

Philanthropy's Go-Betweens

Since the end of the 1970s, a great variety of go-betweens have been set up to offer specialist services to foundations and individual donors. Some of these are market-driven. Others offer expertise on a certain topic (women, climate, etc), method (strategic planning, back office services, etc) or geographic region that a donor may not want to invest in itself

More than the Sum of its Parts: Insights on the Future of European Philanthropy and Social Investment Infrastructure

This study is based on an extensive literature review and more than 50 interviews with a broad specturm of foundation leaders, academic experts, EU officials, and staff of ESPII organizations. The results are like a health check up of our sector. They show that not everything is perfect in this system, a system that many of us have helped to shape over the last 25 years. We should make sure that the health indicators of the European Philanthropy and Social Investment Infrastructure are in good shape for the next 25 years. We need this infrastructure to represent our sector, to drive innovations and to increase in the impact of our work. The latter is very much connected to tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time