February 2022
At the beginning of the year, the Foundation was represented at two public events: Sabrina Grassi, Executive Director of the Foundation, participated in the webinar organized by the ESSEC Chair in Philanthropy “The governance of grant-making foundation. Common pitfalls and best practices”, with Prof. Georg von Schnurbein, Director of the Center for Philanthropy Studies at […]
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February 2022
In 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, Swiss Philanthropy Foundation set up a collaboration of 16 donors of different profiles to help NGOs previously supported through the Foundation’s thematic funds to navigate through the challenges of the crisis. Seven foundations, five private philanthropists and four nominative funds hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation […]
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February 2022
During the year 2021, donors’ gestures of generosity and solidarity continued to increase, as shown by the key figures for the past year. Donations reached CHF 49 million in favor of 458 beneficiary organizations. In 2021, 8 new hosted funds were created, bringing the total number of funds created by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation to 76, […]
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February 2022
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sabrina Grassi as Director General of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation starting on the January 1st, 2020, four years after joining the Foundation. In addition, the team will be growing further with the arrival of Laurent Hostettler in March, as Administrative and Financial Director, reporting to the General […]
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February 2022
The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund was created at the request of the World Health Organization (WHO). Active from March 13, 2020 and December 31, 2021, it enabled individuals, corporations and foundations to support the work of WHO and its partners to help countries prevent, detect and respond to the pandemic. In total, 676,626 donors have […]
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January 2022
In this new contribution to our blog hosted on the Le Temps website, Aline Freiburghaus, Co-Director of SwissFoundations, explores the diversity of motivations that drive people to give, as well as their evolution. “Donors no longer only want to fill the gaps in the system, but are increasingly interested in anticipating societal changes, in order […]
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January 2022
We are pleased to have welcomed two new members to the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation team at the end of 2021: Marc Salzmann has joined us as Project Administrator, and Victoria Pittet has taken on the temporary position of Administrative Coordinator for a period of 9 months. The Foundation is very pleased with these new arrivals. […]
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December 2021
“Generosity multiplies when shared” Guest of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation’s Blog on Le Temps platform, Alexandra Jequier explores this question through different episodes that made her aware of philanthropy from a young age and discusses ways to perpetuate and encourage this tradition with the younger generation. “My father always opened my eyes to the fact […]
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December 2021
In its November 24th 2021 edition, the AGEFI newspaper devoted a special report to philanthropy. Aline Freiburghaus, Director of SwissFoundations for French-speaking Switzerland, and Sabrina Grassi, Director General of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and Co-Vice President of SwissFoundations, had the opportunity to express their views on the changes that the foundation sector is currently undergoing. In […]
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November 2021
In its 2021 edition “The 300 wealthiest people of Switzerland”, Bilan magazine devotes a special report to philanthropy and in particular to continuing education in this field. As Sabrina Grassi, Director General of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation points out in her interview, “Philanthropy has always been able to work. But now there is a desire to […]
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