Funding Disruptions Are a Systemic Failure – Philanthropy Must Do What’s Right and Support Local Leadership By Tais Siqueira Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/03/funding-disruptions-systemic-failure-philanthropy-must-whats-right-support-local-leadership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=funding-disruptions-systemic-failure-philanthropy-must-whats-right-support-local-leadership SORIA, Spain, Mar 17 2025 (IPS) - The slashing of US aid funding by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and cuts or planned cuts in international support by several European states, threaten to cut off the oxygen supply to a civil society already in a critical condition. At CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, activists and grassroots groups have shared with us time and again that shifting and volatile donor priorities are one of the top funding challenges they face, alongside limited resources for strategy and restricted funding. Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service --