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With solidarity on the rise, individual donations to Brazilian NGOs to [...]

Promoted by IDIS –Institute for the Development of Social Investment, the Brazil Giving Research is t (...)

Brazilian Philanthropy Forum: the importance of boldness for the evolu [...]

On September 14th, the 12th edition of the Brazilian Philanthropy Forum took place in São Paulo. Organ (...)

Global crises and the power of youth: highlights from the Philea Forum [...]

The Philea Forum 2023, one of the most important events in the European philanthropic ecosystem, took p (...)

International ranking recognizes IDIS as one of the best Brazilian NGO [...]

Dot Good has announced the top 50 social organizations in Brazil On June 12, the Swiss organization Th (...)

Global CAF conference promotes network integration and discusses globa [...]

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Global Leadership Conference brought together representatives from partn (...)

IDIS achieves Great Place To Work® certification

IDIS - Institute for Social Investment Development - has achieved the Great Place to Work (GPTW) seal. (...)

Operating Archetypes’ launch brings together philanthropists and [...]

On a June morning, IDIS - Instituto para o Desenvolvimento do Investimento Social (Institute for the De (...)

Endowment funds: New country for an old form

Originally published in Alliance Magazine on 06/06/2023 by Paulo Fabiani, CEO at IDIS, and Andrea Ha (...)

Umbrellas, Lightning Rods, and Cisterns for a More Transformative Phil [...]

by Felipe Groba, Project Manager at IDIS Still not very popular in Brazil, CFs stand out to support in (...)

Brazilian Philanthropy Forum 2023: sign up to the live stream event

The 12th edition of the Brazilian Philanthropy Forum is happening on September 14th. Once again, in a (...)

Get to know the 8 principles that guide the SROI Protocol

Get to know the 8 principles that guide impact assesment based on Social Return on Investment (SROI) pr (...)

Brazilian companies are not prepared to respond to emergency situation [...]

By Andre Hanai, project manager at IDIS, and Paula Gonçalo, project coordinator at IDIS About 25% of (...)

IDIS participates in the global event CCW2023 with a panel on Matchfun [...]

Between the 1st and 5th of May 2023, will occur the 4th edition of Catalysing Change Week (CCW). Consid (...)

Brazilian delegation discusses Community Philanthropy in the Americas

Still little known in Brazil, the model of community philanthropy has been increasingly consolidated in (...)

Brazilian Philanthropy in Perspective: sign up for IDIS newsletter

Reinforcing our mission to inspire, support and expand private social investment and its impact, IDIS h (...)

Perspectives for Brazilian Philanthropy is featured in Alliance Magazi [...]

In the Perspectives for Brazilian Philanthropy 2023 by IDIS – Institute for Development of Social Inv (...)

Perspectives for Brazilian Philanthropy in 2023

‘Boldness’ emerges as a transversal element and opens the way for a more transformative, diverse, a (...)

Systems Change Funding: Lessons from Funders in Brazil

On 16 December 2022, IDIS and Catalyst 2030 co-hosted the third in a series of global conversations for (...)

Together for Health: a Matchfunding initiative to strengthen the Braz [...]

The Brazilian Unified Health System, known as SUS, is universal, free, and a worldwide reference. Never (...)

CAF launches Global Philanthropy Hub with free content from 10 countri [...]

The platform aims to promote the culture of giving around the world, through content on philanthropy pr (...)

Hope is a discipline: highlights from the Global Philanthropy Forum 20 [...]

With a view to the Golden Gate, San Francisco's postcard, the Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) took (...)

IDIS is named the best Brazilian philanthropy organization

Efficiency and excellence in management are key factors for social organizations to achieve greater (...)

National Bank for Economic and Social Development selects IDIS as ‘m [...]

The matchfunding initiative will finance new technologies to expand health service in the North and N (...)

Volunteering in Brazil: Two Decades of Transformation

In 2001, when the United Nations – UN established the International Year of Volunteers, amid the many (...)

Volunteering at Brazil: what companies have to do with it

By Luisa Gerbase de Lima, communicaton manager at IDIS   The “2021 Volunteering at Brazil (...)

View philanthropy as a borderless endeavour

By Atti Worku at Alliance Magazine Looking back on the Brazilian Philanthropy Forum 2022 brings me a (...)

Global generosity growth as more people donate and help strangers

Brazil reaches record and is among the 20 most supportive countries in the world More people donated (...)

Collaboration, capacity, and change at the 2022 Brazil Philanthropy Fo [...]

by Agustín Landa at Alliance Magazine After three years since the last national reunion, the philan (...)

The ‘S’ of the Brazilian ESG will not evolve without dialogue with [...]

The B3 (Stock Exchange in Brazil) revealed last year that it would have new rules for its Corporate Sus (...)

Brazilian endowments outlook

The first registered endowment in Brazil dates from 1956. The model, however, was not adopted by many o (...)

Live Stream: Brazilian Philanthropy Forum 2022

The 11th edition of the Brazilian Philanthropy Forum already has a date: September 15th. This year, in (...)

Culture of giving in Brazil: Brief scenario

It is not possible to talk about innovation and trends in giving in Brazil without first looking at the (...)

What Brazilian philanthropy learned from pandemic giving

Paula Jancso Fabiani CEO of IDIS and Luisa Lima Communications Manager at IDIS.  Collaboration and (...)

An Urgent Invitation to Shift Funding Practices

Catalyst 2030, a global network that works to make the world better and fairer for all, has launched an (...)

IDIS participates on report focused on the impacts of the pandemic on [...]

Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released a new report, Philanthropy and COVID-19 (...)

New research series details emerging trends in digital and other innov [...]

Analyses of philanthropic activity in Brazil and the United Kingdom identify expanded donor expectation (...)

Perspectives for Brazilian philanthropy in 2022

Societies are more complex. Problems to be faced too. In the 19th century, one of the great names of (...)

Study highlights leading companies in corporate giving in Brazil and [...]

Unprecedented research carried out by IDIS points out the organizations that allocated the most resourc (...)

IDIS is among the first organizations in the world certified by CAF Am [...]

The digital credential is an initiative of the North American representative of the Charities Aid Found (...)