“In the context of an existential crisis for humanity, foundations do have the opportunity and perhaps also the obligation to include the climate dimension in their work.”

Delphine Moralis, Chief Executive of the European Foundation Centre (EFC), believes that foundations have a very important role to play in the current context, because of the pandemic and the aggravated inequality, because of the climate crisis, because of challenges with regard to democracy, society. And foundations which have the opportunity to be risk-takers, innovators, bridge-builders, investors, ground-makers, really have a unique momentum to deploy their private resources strategically to change and to move our world and our societies into the right direction.

This text and video is published under the Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. The name of the author/rights holder should be mentioned as followed. Author: Jovana Trifunović and Igor Bararon / tippingpoint.net. Cover picture: film still, illustration: Renato Foder

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