As development funding from donor governments falls away, more and more emphasis is falling on the role of philanthropy in funding development.
But is the sector doing as good a job as it can at providing that funding?
Not really, according to a panel of experts at a Devex event on how to strengthen philanthropic funding for development. Right now, the sector needs a “sea change,” but it hasn’t happened, said Elizabeth Dale, the Frey Foundation chair for family philanthropy at the Dorothy Johnson Center for Philanthropy, situated at Grand Valley State University in Michigan in the United States.