Discover the interview of Etienne Eichenberger in Radio LAC aired on May 1st, 2020. The opportunity to talk about the collaboration of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Foundation, in the fight against Covid-19, thanks to the donations collected in favour of the Covid19 Solidarity Response Fund. […]
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation has been working alongside the World Health Organization in the fight against COVID19 . As a host foundation, our role is to accompany the WHO in raising funds in Switzerland and Europe for the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund, to help support “a global response to […]
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Our new pandemic world has generated unprecedented creativity. These innovations have several features in common. They are voluntary and they create bonds. Specialists, students and entrepreneurs have chosen to respond to the emergency by creating new forms of solidarity on the scale of a neighbourhood or a region. But are these innovations sustainable? What future […]
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Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a collaborative fund to support NGOs whose activities are impacted by the pandemic, the “COVID-19 Rapid Support Fund”. Thanks to the strong mobilization of donors and a matching-fund mechanism by SPF, a fund of CHF 500,000 has been raised in record time. The impact of […]
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In an interview with AGEFI, Etienne Eichenberger, co-founder of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation (SPF), recalls the impact of the crisis on the actions of the sheltered foundations. He explains how SPF was able to use its expertise to help the WHO to approach non-state donors for the first time. The launch in partnership with the […]
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With strong growth of its sheltered funds, the Foundation wishes to strengthen its team and is looking for : A Project Administrator attached to the General Management for the operational and administrative management of Sheltered Funds. Application deadline: Friday 15 May 2020. To apply, please send your application to the recruitment agency (Alec Allan & […]
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Dans le soin, l’alimentation ou la collaboration médicale, le bénévolat a suscité une créativité inédite pour faire face à notre nouveau monde pandémique. Ces innovations sont-elles durables ? Quel futur préfigurent-elles ? Trouver un producteur ou un commerçant local en Suisse romande n’a jamais été aussi pratique, grâce à la plateforme Local Heroes. Si vous êtes à […]
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Long-time partner of Swiss Philanhropy Foundation, the Verbier Festival announces the creation of a new fund to provide emergency relief to unemployed Verbier Festival Academy alumni — solo, chamber and orchestral instrumentalists, singers, conductors — and alumni Festival production and technical crew facing lost income because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The current global health […]
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C’est à qui offrira le plus ! Les dons et la générosité explosent en cette période de Covid-19. Avec une particularité : ils se « relocalisent », stimulant les communautés locales, soutenant nos voisin·e·s et aîné·e·s … Allons-nous tisser de nouveaux liens ? Des fleurs, des gants, de la crème pour les mains et de […]
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Donations and generosity are exploding in this Covid-19 period. With one particularity: they “relocate”, stimulating local communities. The university hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva are overwhelmed by donations. In such a consequent way that it was necessary to create a mutual aid fund to structure the reception of all the marks of generosity. Voluntary technological […]
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