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A Call to Action for Investing in Higher Ed in Africa — and the Researchers, Innovation, and Youth It Supports
A Call to Action for Investing in Higher Ed in Africa — and the Researchers, Innovation, and Youth It Supports

We are entering a golden age of philanthropic giving. As public budgets face ever greater strain, philanthropy appears to be stepping into the breach. Harvard Kennedy School’s Global Philanthropy Report published in 2018 describes the number of philanthropic institutions as having “sky-rocketed” since 2000, with the lion’s share of these institutions marking their establishment in the last 25 years. You might think an African university should be well placed to leverage this philanthropic bonanza. However, there are a number of issues that make accessing that international philanthropy challenging.

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Andrew WigleyUniversities, Higher education, High Net Worth wealth, Philanthropists, philanthropic patterns of giving, Africa, Harvard, Wits, University of Cape Town, HERANA, ARUA, Science, Research, Afrilabs, institutional advancement
Riding high: The role of university charitable trusts in UK fundraising
Riding high: The role of university charitable trusts in UK fundraising

According to our latest research, there are now 85 university charitable foundations in the UK, established by non-UK universities in over 20 countries. Between 2014-19 these charitable trusts received over £342.5m ($460m) from UK based philanthropic giving, and 2019 was the most successful year yet, collectively reporting 37% growth over 2018 income. And we know this doesn’t reflect the full picture of university charitable fundraising.

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Andrew WigleyUniversity, Charitable trusts, Foundations, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Pennsylvania, Weizmann Institute, UK fundraising, tax relief, Gift Aid, Wolfson Foundation, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University, Stanford University, Hebrew University, Haifa University, Israel, United States, South Africa, Makerere, Higher education, university philanthropy, university fundraising, university
History and Hungary: George Soros and his university philanthropy

At UniversityPhilanthropy.com we wanted to understand which institutions George Soros’ network of foundations was funding, and where are they. What we hadn’t appreciated is just how complex an undertaking that would be. The challenge is the highly devolved and disparate character of Soros’s philanthropic efforts. Said to be operating in over 120 countries, there are different foundations in different geographies.

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Andrew WigleyGeorge Soros, Open Society Foundations, Foundation to Promote Open Society, Hungary, Central European University, Bard College, Leo Botstein, Michael Ignatieff, Viktor Orbán, John Shattuck, Universities, University, philanthropy, philanthrocapitalism, university philanthropy, Higher education, Soros, Soros Fund Charitable Foundation, Open Society Institute, Soros Economic Development Fund, Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, University of Oxford, American University of Central Asia, CIVICA university network, London School of Economics, Open Society Justice Initiative, American University, Arizona State University, American University of Bulgaria