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Safari with a purpose

Thursday, 26th December, 2019

Just a super quick note pointing you in the direction of Richard Madden’s piece for The Telegraph. Entitled Would you pay $20,000 to help shoot and tag…

‘Tis the season of giving: fundraising for Ecoexist

Thursday, 28th November, 2019

I thought I’d use this blog to launch our Christmas fundraising efforts. Last year was our first Christmas appeal, and was instrumental in kickstarting the work in…

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…