Author Archives: alanrburrell

In Australia it has been estimated that overall giving will be down by more than 7% during 2020 and will have carry over impact on the 2021 year to be down by around 12%. It is understandable in these times, that overall corporate giving has been impacted in line with falling profits.  Many corporates haveContinue reading “Philanthropy during COVID”

In a recent article by the IMF, global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be moreContinue reading “COVID-19 and Global Growth”

People often ask about the concept of socially responsible capital, or as some may know it profit with purpose or conscious capital. Whilst this has recently been refreshed as a concept – the basic philosophy has not changed. The premise is that profit is good – but profit needs to have a purpose.  Business canContinue reading “Socially responsible capital – profit with purpose”

A concept penned in The Stanford Social Innovation by Jeffrey Bradach and Abe Grindle, looked at growing what works and transformative scale. The application of this concept for truly global issues like the lack of surgery in sub-Saharan Africa is critical.  The Lancet Commission Review on Global Surgery found that of the world’s population ofContinue reading “Transformational scaling needed in Africa”

Up to one third of human disease in developing countries is amenable to surgery.Yet, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery identifies that more than 17 millionpeople die each year from a lack of safe surgery. That is more than three times theannual number of people who die from HIV, Malaria and TB combined. In addition,Continue reading “The need for safe surgery is staggering”