Blog - Wild Philanthropy

Tongwe Trust gets a makeover!

Thursday, 31st October, 2019

Wild Philanthropy has been working hard to support our partners over the last few years. The original plan was simply to act as a fundraiser, linking our…

An engineer called Kit Miyamoto

Thursday, 31st October, 2019

Just a very quick story about a trip that illustrates perfectly the effectiveness of travel as catalyst and support for long-term sustainable development, and in particular the…

Social Enterprise World Forum comes to Addis

Thursday, 31st October, 2019

As part of our work with Cambridge University’s Social Ventures Incubator, we’ve been introduced to a whole range of things related to social businesses and business with…

Profit with purpose

Thursday, 26th September, 2019

Those of you who take the Financial Times may or may not have been surprised by ‘Capitalism. Time for a reset’, a recent letter from its editor…

Changing the game

Friday, 20th September, 2019

Just a quick note with regards to African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), one Africa’s oldest and finest NGOs, and who over the years I’ve kept in fairly regular…

Investing in wildlife: Paul Herbertson bigs up the Rhino Impact Bond

Thursday, 29th August, 2019

It was great to see the Zoological Society of London’s Rhino Impact Bonds work featured in the Financial Times last month. I first came across this initiative…

The Beckwith and Fisher Archive: for the good of the future

Thursday, 22nd August, 2019

While African ceremonies photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher’s extraordinary careers are by no means at their end, they’re already beginning to think about how best to…

The plight of the Batwa: we talk to Serena Strang, recently returned from Uganda

Friday, 23rd August, 2019

On 24 June, journalist Sophy Roberts posted a video of a group of Batwa children dancing. She wrote: ‘The persuasive innocence of childhood. What this video doesn’t…

Fixing Africa’s drug supply chain

Wednesday, 31st July, 2019

Just a quick note highlighting the work of one of this year’s Skoll Awardees for Social Entrepreneurship, mPharma, founded by Ghanaian Gregory Rockson. Having swapped a budding…