PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
1 June 2006

Dear Colleague,

The newly redesigned June issue of Alliance magazine, with a special
feature on donors and learning, has just been published.

Seeing differently? Donors as learning organizations
Funders talk about listening to their grantees and their
beneficiaries, and spend time and money on evaluating their
programmes, but what lies behind the rhetoric? Do they really absorb
the lessons that their work throws up or is organizational learning
simply one more item on the list of neglected good intentions?
Free-to-view articles in the current issue include:

June's guest editors Jenny Hyatt and Allan Kaplan of The Development
School, set out their ideal of a learning organization and suggest
that many funders are failing to live up to it
Celso Grecco, president of Brazil's Atitude Marketing Social, on the
problems he faced while attempting to replicate the Brazilian social
stock exchange model in Latin America and Europe To link to these
articles, please use www.alliancemagazine.org

Also published in this issue:

Jo Andrews explains the nature and purpose of the newly established
Sigrid Rausing Trust Strategic Funds
Michael Liffman on the Asia-Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social
Investment's grantmaking course
Interview with Lizzie Zobel of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation
Partha Rudra, Nadya K Shmavonian, Luc Tayart de Borms, Andrés Thompson
and Aleksandra Vesic discuss their own organizations' learning in
response to their beneficiaries and the changing circumstances in
which they work
Naa-aku Acquaye Baddoo on learning to use the space for learning that
exists in SNV's world of plans, systems, indicators and measurements
Peter Laugharn on leveraging learning in the Bernard Van Leer Foundation
Sandor Koles on learning when there are no precedents to guide you
Greg Erasmus on the importance of listening to local communities
Belinda Duff of Oxfam on the tensions between learning and having
strong values and a conviction that you are doing the right thing
Celia Moore on IBM's model for corporate philanthropy
David Bonbright on one of the ways in which donors are not learning
from their beneficiaries
Phil Buchanan on how we should use learning as a means towards
improved perfomrance and greater positive impact PLUS
News from around the world, conference reports, regular columns, book
reviews, and more.

Full contents can be found at www.alliancemagazine.org

If you would like to link to or reproduce any of these articles,
please contact Oliver Denton, Business Development Manager of Alliance
at [email][email protected]

Oliver Denton
Business Development Manager, Alliance
www.alliancemagazine.org

T: +44 (0)207 735 8006
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