Dans le soin, l’alimentation ou la collaboration médicale, le bénévolat a suscité une créativité inédite pour faire face à notre nouveau monde pandémique. Ces innovations sont-elles durables ? Quel futur préfigurent-elles ? Trouver un producteur ou un commerçant local en Suisse romande n’a jamais été aussi pratique, grâce à la plateforme Local Heroes. Si vous êtes à […]
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Long-time partner of Swiss Philanhropy Foundation, the Verbier Festival announces the creation of a new fund to provide emergency relief to unemployed Verbier Festival Academy alumni — solo, chamber and orchestral instrumentalists, singers, conductors — and alumni Festival production and technical crew facing lost income because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The current global health […]
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C’est à qui offrira le plus ! Les dons et la générosité explosent en cette période de Covid-19. Avec une particularité : ils se « relocalisent », stimulant les communautés locales, soutenant nos voisin·e·s et aîné·e·s … Allons-nous tisser de nouveaux liens ? Des fleurs, des gants, de la crème pour les mains et de […]
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Donations and generosity are exploding in this Covid-19 period. With one particularity: they “relocate”, stimulating local communities. The university hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva are overwhelmed by donations. In such a consequent way that it was necessary to create a mutual aid fund to structure the reception of all the marks of generosity. Voluntary technological […]
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The consequences for the economy are still being assessed, but what about support for NGOs, in Switzerland or elsewhere, and through them, aid to the most disadvantaged ? What are their response capacities? For many NGOs, the impacts are major, as they offer a range of services that are directly impacted by the containment measures. […]
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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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Combien de fois je me suis arrêté devant cette affiche, sublime de poésie et de simplicité. Il y pleut des roses stylisées, dont le rouge irradie sur fond vert. En deux couleurs et quelques traits, les graphistes sont parvenus à tout dire : la goutte de sang, sa nature précieuse, le don que représente sa […]
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Give blood? Know his blood type? As he accompanies a group of invited visitors to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (ICRC) of which he is the director, Pascal Hufschmid reads aloud the title of a poster for the latest temporary exhibition: “Blood – the gift of life”. The poster, which includes red […]
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Le sens du mot pandémie prend tout son sens à notre niveau, alors que les informations venant des plus de quarante projets dans une douzaine de pays soutenus par les philanthropes que nous accompagnons remontent. Les conséquences sur l’économie sont encore en train d’être évaluées, des plans de soutien aux entreprises proposés mais qu’en est-il […]
Read the articleFind the Covid19 Fund in the columns of the newspaper Le Temps, with the testimony of Etienne Eichenberger, Chairman of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. “We are making our infrastructure and expertise available to this initiative and to donors to facilitate the collectof donations while forwarding them to the World Health Organization (WHO)” explains Etienne Eichenberger. Discover […]
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