The Institute for Philanthropy was founded in 2000. Since then, it has had a number of significant achievements, including:
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Since its inception, The Institute for Philanthropy has had a number of significant achievements, including:
• Over the last 10 years we have built a global network of donors through our educational programmes
• We have worked closely with almost 200 wealthy families from Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East
• Through the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative, working with the Toskan Casale Foundation, we have reached nearly 100 UK schools, educating over 10,000 pupils
• Through the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative, we have channelled £150,000 to local charities in the UK
• We have partnered with several leading organisations including Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, The Royal Bank of Canada, Arcapita and ASHOKA
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• We have collaborated with leading charitable foundations such as The Rockefeller Foundation, The Clinton Foundation, The Grameen Foundation, The Wellcome Trust and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• We have pioneered Europe’s first donor education programme for the next generation: Next Generation Philanthropy
• Through our "Think Philanthropy" forum we have gathered the leading experts in the field including Paul Collier CBE, Professor of Economics at Oxford University and author of The Bottom Billion; Dr Sigrid Rausing, Director of The Sigrid Rausing Trust; and Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype and co-founder of Zennström Philanthropies
• We have successfully advocated for the UK Government to provide tax breaks on gift of shares
• In the last two years we have worked with 55 of the UK’s 90 community foundations