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2025 Ariadne Forecast for European Social Change and Human Rights Funders
Full text linkThe 2025 Ariadne forecast gives insights into what challenges and opportunities this year might bring for grantees; how funder practices could change; which political events will likely affect funders' work; what will become more important in the months ahead; and – perhaps most importantly – what to feel hopeful about. As we move steadily along into the rest of 2025, this report serves as a useful resource to assist grantees as they prepare to navigate the year ahead
The Impact of Japanese Occupation on the Peking Union Medical College
Full text linkEstablished by the China Medical Board in 1921, the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) was the most prominent institution of Western medicine in Republican China. It had state-of-the-art buildings, equipment, and other infrastructural set-up, and it hosted leading medical experts of their field in the city of Beijing. However, most historical accounts of the PUMC remain silent on the years of its Japanese occupation. In 1942, the Japanese suspended the campus of PUMC and utilized it for their own purposes. This report draws on the records of the China Medical Board to reconstruct a picture of what happened to the PUMC during the era of Japanese occupation
Funding Social Justice Futures: Strengthening Organizations through Collaborative Power
Full text linkIn an increasingly complex world, collaboration has emerged as a vital tool for driving resilience and impact in social justice work. However, the power of collaboration is often untapped, particularly in strengthening organizational infrastructure. Funding Social Justice Futures: Strengthening Organizations through Collaborative Power highlights the transformative potential of feminist collaboration in strengthening organizational infrastructure. The report presents compelling evidence for the transformative potential of investing in collaborative organizational infrastructure initiatives for these challenging times
What does decolonizing research look like? Annual Report 2024
Full text linkThe BEST Research Center Report Year 2, 2024, is a multi-page report on five curricular/pedagogical projects and two art-research projects, including project description, audience, events, and outcome/reach
Challenging Times: How U.S. Nonprofit Leaders are Experiencing the Political Context
Full text linkThis Research Snapshot examines how nonprofits are experiencing the rapid shifts in policy and the current U.S. political climate under a new presidential administration. Drawing on responses from 585 nonprofit leaders collected from February 3 to 21, 2025, the report highlights nonprofit leaders' most pressing concerns with the political climate and what they would find most helpful from their foundation funders. Â
Berent Friele: Nelson Rockefellerâs Shadow Diplomat in Latin America
Full text linkThis research paper is an introduction to the life of Berent Johan Friele, a Norwegian-born coffee dealer, who ended up as the 20th century's most influential foreigner in Brazilian politics and foreign affairs. His extensive network with the Brazilian political and business elites was built through his role as the world's biggest coffee buyer in the 1920s and 1930s. He expanded and maintained this network during his years as country director for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), under the leadership of Nelson A. Rockefeller during World War II. After the war, he became Rockefeller's "right-hand man" in Latin America, and especially in Brazil, and was the main reason behind Rockefeller's close relationship with South America's biggest country. Friele became known as "America's unofficial ambassador to Brazil, and Brazil's unofficial ambassador to the US," and played an important role in improving the relations between the US and Brazil, especially during Nixon's years in the White House. He was a shadow diplomat, operating behind the scenes. His letters and memoranda at the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) only provide partial insight into his overall influence
The Antinomies of Agrarian Modernization in Cold War East Pakistan
Full text linkBetween the end of WWII and the mid-1960s, the thinking on modernization and rural development had shifted focus, from broad-based concerns regarding "agrarian democracy" to narrowly technocratic approaches to population control and food production. This essay addresses the question of why such a shift occurred, by examining the multifaceted relationship between mid-twentieth-century decolonization and the Cold War politics of agrarian modernization. It offers some preliminary responses based on evidence from the Ford Foundation's records on the origins, practices, and contested trajectories of rural development projects in 1960s East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh)
Girls and Girlhood: Resisting, Building, and Dreaming New Worlds
Full text linkA deep dive into the why, what, and how of girls' resistance, dreaming, and power. This booklet includes examples of building power, how girls and young feminists are organising, and some of the factors girls and young feminists contend with in their work and organising
How to Measure Racial Healing
Full text linkRacial healing practices are carefully designed to help people explore their personal and collective experiences, while building the relationships needed to ensure every child and family has a just opportunity to thrive. This resource shares ways to effectively measure racial healing work within and between communities.  Â
2024 Partners Survey: Key Findings and Recommendations
Full text linkThe 2024 Pledge for Change Partners' survey is the first southern-led downward accountability process that seeks to promote a mutual commitment to building a stronger aid ecosystem by shifting accountability downwards and addressing power imbalances in the sector.The survey gathered feedback from 342 partners across 61 countries on the progress made by Women for Women, Cordaid, CARE International, Christian Aid and Oxfam International in meeting the three pledges: equitable partnership, authentic storytelling and influencing wider change. 79% of the partners were NGOs and CBOs operating at the national, regional, country and district levels.Through surveys and focus group discussions, partners shared their level of satisfaction with the degree to which the five signatories have demonstrated results from the showcase, reflecting a generally positive sentiment towards the signatories' equitable partnership. Using the Net Promoter Score analytical process, partners provided insights into their level of satisfaction, categorised as highly satisfied (promoters), satisfied (passives), or not satisfied (detractors)