The International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, is a grantee of The Peace Pledge Fund, a donor circle hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. A donor circle allows a group of individuals to pool their resources to advance a common cause, namely, to combat the spread […]
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The entire Swiss Philanthropy Foundation team participated in a day of workshops around the values defined in our strategic plan 2022-2025: Integrity, Independence, Simplicity and Innovation. This day allowed us to determine the behaviours to apply in order to be aligned with these values in our daily work, and specifically in the accompaniment of the […]
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It is with great joy and enthusiasm that we announce the appointment of Lucile Bula as Director of Operations at the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. As part of the Foundation’s growth phase, this appointment allows us to strengthen and support the management and specifically the operations department of the Foundation. On a daily basis, Lucile supervises […]
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Swiss Philanthropy Foundation had the pleasure of attending the Building Bridges Summit on October 3 and 4. On this occasion, Marc Salzmann, Project Administrator at the Foundation, attended very rich exchanges on concrete topics of sustainable finance, oriented towards solutions with collaborative potential and capable of being deployed at large scale. More concretely, many of […]
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Verbier Festival Philanthropy Forum: the recording of the Forum is available on our Youtube channel Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and the Verbier Festival Foundation joined forces to organise the fourth edition of the Verbier Festival Philanthropy Forum, whose theme was “How can philanthropy be more impactful in an Age of Disruption? The event took place on […]
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Sabrina Grassi, Executive Director of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation answered Nicolas Grangier’s questions for the CCIG – Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services – interview of the week. This was an opportunity to discuss the model of an umbrella foundation and its advantages, to explain the solution of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation’s hosted fund, and to […]
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Discover our new activity report! We are pleased to share our bi-annual activity report, looking back on the years 2020 and 2021 of the Foundation. We present the figures and highlights of these two years, which are part of a period of strong growth. This growth is expressed on the one hand by the donations […]
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From Wednesday 22 August to Friday 26 August 2022, we were pleased to welcome the participants of the 10th edition of the Master Class in Philanthropy, organised in partnership with the Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS) – Universität Basel and the Centre en philanthropie (GCP) – UNIGE. A rich programme is proposed during three days, […]
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Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the LGBTI Youth Fund, an independent philanthropic fund supported by Oak Foundation. Hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, The Fund has the vision that Switzerland is an inclusive society where all young people can freely define and express their gender identities and sexual orientations and have […]
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On Wednesday, June 29, Lucile Bula, Head of Operations at Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, gave a lecture on philanthropy and its advocacy issues as part of the “Advocacy in International Affairs” program at IHEID. This included an explanation of what philanthropy is, as well as the trends we are observing at Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and how […]
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