Mai 2021
“Culture: What if we valued better the impalpable?” Câline Yamakawa, guest of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation Blog on the „Le Temps“ platform, explores this question. „We need more, we need elevation of the soul in the intellectual sense, we need solidarity, mutual aid and human warmth.“ Inspired both by her daily life as Director of Operations […]
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Februar 2021
An avalanche of donations, new initiatives, mobilisation of companies, Philanthropy has experienced an unprecedented boom in these recent months. How do you explain this impulse of solidarity? To answer this question, Etienne Eichenberger, President of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, was one of the guests on the last 3D ECO programme broadcasted the 21st of February […]
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Dezember 2020
In its 2020 edition of the series „The 300 richest in Switzerland“, the magazine Bilan devoted a dossier on philanthropy and the strong mobilization of donors for health, reinforced by the current health emergency context. Etienne Eichenberger contributed to this notebook by reviewing in particular the collaboration of the foundation he chairs Swiss Philanthropy Foundation […]
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Mai 2020
Etienne Eichenberger is the guest of Heidi.news „Point du jour“, dedicated today to philanthropy. This episode revealed incredible outbursts of generosity and simple gestures of solidarity, revealing the best of ourselves. We invite you to discover it online. Swiss Philanthropy Foundation thanks Heidi.news for this opportunity to remind the importance and the role of philanthropy […]
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Mai 2020
Martial Paris, managing partner at WISE – philanthropy advisors, is a guest of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation’s blog on the Temps platform. It reflects the realities experienced by NGOs on the ground and the challenges encountered in carrying out their missions with the poorest in these times of pandemic. He urges donors to be flexible and […]
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April 2020
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation has been working alongside the World Health Organization in the fight against COVID19 . As a host foundation, our role is to accompany the WHO in raising funds in Switzerland and Europe for the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, to help support „a global response to […]
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In an interview with AGEFI, Etienne Eichenberger, co-founder of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation (SPF), recalls the impact of the crisis on the actions of the sheltered foundations. He explains how SPF was able to use its expertise to help the WHO to approach non-state donors for the first time. The launch in partnership with the […]
Full article April 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the first and only fund for individuals, companies and institutions to contribute to the global response to COVID-19. To expand the global donor network, WHO has partnered with two charitable foundations: Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and United Nations Foundation. Both foundations will receive donations, which will then be used […]
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März 2020
Donner son sang ? Connaître son groupe sanguin ? Alors qu’il accompagne un groupe de visiteurs invités au Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (MICR) dont il est le directeur, Pascal Hufschmid lit à haute voix le titre d’une affiche de la dernière exposition temporaire : « Le sang – le don de la vie ». […]
Full articleMärz 2020
Retrouvez le Fonds Covid19 dans les colonnes du journal Le Temps, avec le témoignage d’Etienne Eichenberger, président de Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. „Nous mettons notre infrastructure et notre savoir-faire à disposition de cette initiative et des donateurs pour faciliter la collecte de dons et les transmettre à l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS)“ explique Etienne Eichenberger. […]
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