By: Melis Figanmese The UNDP 2013 Human Development Report focuses on the economic growth of developing nations and factors that have significant impact in this progress. Turkey is consistently referred to as a nation in the South that has boomed economically over the past years, but is still socially lagging behind other traditionally North states.…
In honor of International Women’s Day, TPF supporter, Seran Trehan hosted a luncheon. More than 50 professional women across many generations gathered to brainstorm about the status of women in Turkey. We listened to some ground breaking NGOs from Istanbul such as Women for Women’s Human Rights, KAGIDER and Turkish WIN share their work on women…
By Senay Ataselim Yilmaz Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta in his recent TED talk calls out the double standard that drives our relationship to charities, and how we have been undermining the causes we love. He raised the same question back in September 2012 in a Wall Street Journal article. Yet, his TED talk stirred…
Dear donors, supporters, wishful thinkers and idealists, This update comes to you with great happiness and pride to prove small moves make huge changes. KEDV (Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work) has recently submitted their final project report. In October of 2011, we at TPF were quick to grant KEDV $25,000 to build a Women…
By Gulsah Senol Turkish Philanthropy Funds realizes the importance of investing time and effort to raising a younger generation of philanthropists. Since its inception in September 2011, Young Philanthropists for TPF has been doing just that, creating a new generation of present donors and future philanthropists. Led by the Junior Board, a group of young…
Corporations are counting on their employees to help mold their CSR strategy. Employers such as Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and more have pledged to match (or sometimes double!) donations made by their employees. Microsoft recently announced that the Microsoft Giving Campaign has raised $1 billion in cash for more than 31,000 global nonprofit…
TPF Turned 6! What an exciting day we had! TPF wanted to celebrate its birthday by giving out gifts, so we decided to match donations up to $5,000. Boy, did our donors respond! We were flooded with generous gifts, and even two special donations to increase the matching gift amount to $15,000. We closed the…
From now until April 2nd, TPF will be matching all donations made to Tohum Autism Foundation and Turkiye Yardim Sevenler Dernegi in honor of Autism Awareness Day! Follow @tphilanthropy with #otizm and #autism to join the conversation ! TPF has been running a campaign for Autism that began with the Junior Board’s Mardi Gras for…
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Mark Zuckerberg is a trendsetter. He is doing what all donors should consider doing. He wants to give back to his community, he wants to stay connected to his donation and he does not want to take on all the administrative work that comes with social investment. That’s why Zuckerberg gave 18 million Facebook shares,…