Recovering trust in philanthropy

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This blog post is about the session, "Rethinking the resourcing of civil society: Local philanthropy's role in supporting citizen action."

The session was led by Jenny Hodgson during the International Civil Society Week that in Bogota, Colombia. Carolina Suarez, Executive Director of AFE Colombia, attended the event and reflects on the lecture in her blog post.

She believes in the importance and the value that corporate philanthropy can bring to society. And thinks that the public's negative view of all public corporations is not true. She believes that philanthropic organizations need to be more transparent and should benefit all society, and be driven toward serving the most challenging social causes of our world, framed on the 17 SDGs.

Read here blog post to find out more about how philanthropy organizations can grow and change.

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