Oktober 2022
It is with great joy and enthusiasm that we announce the appointment of Lucile Bula as Director of Operations at the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. As part of the Foundation’s growth phase, this appointment allows us to strengthen and support the management and specifically the operations department of the Foundation. On a daily basis, Lucile supervises […]
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Oktober 2022
Swiss Philanthropy Foundation had the pleasure of attending the Building Bridges Summit on October 3 and 4. On this occasion, Marc Salzmann, Project Administrator at the Foundation, attended very rich exchanges on concrete topics of sustainable finance, oriented towards solutions with collaborative potential and capable of being deployed at large scale. More concretely, many of […]
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September 2022
Verbier Festival Philanthropy Forum: the recording of the Forum is available on our Youtube channel Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and the Verbier Festival Foundation joined forces to organise the fourth edition of the Verbier Festival Philanthropy Forum, whose theme was „How can philanthropy be more impactful in an Age of Disruption? The event took place on […]
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September 2022
Sabrina Grassi, Executive Director of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation answered Nicolas Grangier’s questions for the CCIG – Geneva Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services – interview of the week. This was an opportunity to discuss the model of an umbrella foundation and its advantages, to explain the solution of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation’s hosted fund, and to […]
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August 2022
Discover our new activity report! We are pleased to share our bi-annual activity report, looking back on the years 2020 and 2021 of the Foundation. We present the figures and highlights of these two years, which are part of a period of strong growth. This growth is expressed on the one hand by the donations […]
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August 2022
From Wednesday 22 August to Friday 26 August 2022, we were pleased to welcome the participants of the 10th edition of the Master Class in Philanthropy, organised in partnership with the Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS) – Universität Basel and the Centre en philanthropie (GCP) – UNIGE. A rich programme is proposed during three days, […]
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August 2022
Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the LGBTI Youth Fund, an independent philanthropic fund supported by Oak Foundation. Hosted by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, The Fund has the vision that Switzerland is an inclusive society where all young people can freely define and express their gender identities and sexual orientations and have […]
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Juni 2022
On Wednesday, June 29, Lucile Bula, Head of Operations at Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, gave a lecture on philanthropy and its advocacy issues as part of the „Advocacy in International Affairs“ program at IHEID. This included an explanation of what philanthropy is, as well as the trends we are observing at Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and how […]
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Juni 2022
Anne-Cathrine Frogg Spadola and Laurent Douek, Board members of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, had the pleasure to deliver the 4th edition of their master class at the Joint Master Global Economic Governance and Public Affairs (GEGPA) and EU Trade & Climate Diplomacy (EUDIPLO) of CIFE-Centre international de formation européenne international de formation européenne and Luiss School […]
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Juni 2022
Swiss Philanthropy Foundation team comes out enthusiastic and stimulated by two days spent in the Lavaux region during a strategic and teambuilding retreat. During the first day, which took place in the peaceful setting of Crêt-Bérard, we reflected together on the concrete actions to be taken to implement the Foundation’s 2022-2025 strategy. Everyone was able […]
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