Unpacking global trends
Private giving at large scale to improve public well-being is now a significant social policy phenomenon across the globe. Long-existing institutions such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations have been joined by a new generation of philanthropists and philanthropic foundations, such as Gates and Bloomberg, IKEA and Omidyar, Slim and Lemann.
All exert influence over social policy programmes and policy design. At the same time there is also emerging distinctive regional or domestic philanthropy, especially in the Global South.
What does this mean for social policy? How does philanthropy interact with and influence policy in different geographies and across different fields such as health, education, housing or agriculture? Is such philanthropy a generous addition of resources and expertise to the policy process? Or, by privileging the perspectives and ideas of a private few, does it offend principles of democracy and the state?
Join this online discussion, hosted by the Marshall Institute at the LSE, to unpack some of these key questions, which are explored in a new publication the Handbook of Philanthropy and Social Policy, edited by Roosa Lambin, Jonathan Roberts and Rebecca Surender.
Leading regional philanthropy expert Professor Rana Jawad will be discussion her chapter in the book about MENA philanthropy.
Speakers
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Dr Roosa Lambin
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Dr Arun Kumar
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Professor Rana Jawad
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Dr Jeremey Youde
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Professor Jonathan Roberts (moderator)
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This event is being hosted online from 2pm to 5pm (UK) / 7 to 10pm (Dubai). You can register here.