Richard Gere on feeling "deeply ashamed" of what his country has done, and why his new film offers “a corrective of who we really are as human beings" - my piece from the Skoll World Forum: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2... @skollfoundation.bsky.social @pioneerspost.bsky.social

Kay donated a kidney to a stranger, then Tom read about it and did the same; then he set up a project to encourage acts of generosity, that in some cases sparks further acts of kindness. www.positive.news/society/the-...

UK govt announces plan to connect philanthropic donors with local organisations outside of London - " helping spread donations across the country": www.gov.uk/government/n... #philanthropy

"Demand for solar panels, electric vehicles and heat pumps in Great Britain has leapt since the war began on 28 Feb" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'49% of higher-rate taxpayers said they were “not interested in charities”' - ouch www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

UK aid cuts "set to be the steepest across the G7, steeper even than the US" and will above all hit women, people with disabilities, children, and people affected by conflict NGO statement via @bondngo.bsky.social www.bond.org.uk/press-releas... #ukaid

Well said by Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"[An estimated] 800,000 people have died who otherwise wouldn’t have due to the (illegal) shuttering of USAID... We don’t know most of their names. But thanks to the essential work of journalists, we know some of them" timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-people... @timhirschelburns.bsky.social

'The conclusion is that women can’t, after all, have it all. Ariel Wan disagrees: “F*ck that. We can. Let’s just build it.” So she did.' New story by me, for @reasonstobecheerful.world reasonstobecheerful.world/little-break... #childcare #entrepreneur #femalefounder #solutionsjournalism

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

Why are do-gooders so universally disliked, and are they making a comeback...? Some thoughts on social comparison, the do-gooder dilemma, and moral envy: howcanwehelp.blog/2025/12/31/d...

"The discomfort of the checkout charity request makes customers more sceptical, and they start to doubt the real motives behind the request" theconversation.com/checkout-cha... #fundraising #charity @theconversation.com

New episode from us at @pioneerspost.bsky.social, recorded in Medellin with @juliepybus.bsky.social. (Enjoy my lame attempts to slurp the coffee while tasting, and my terrible Spanish...) www.pioneerspost.com/podcasts/202... #bcorp #colombia #medellin #socialenterprise @soljourno.bsky.social

18 UK universities now exclude oil, gas and mining companies from their careers and recruitment activities, according to the charity People & Planet www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025... @thecanaryuk.bsky.social @peopleandplanet.bsky.social

😬2025 has been rough going for America. 🧐But did anything good happen at all? 🥰Thankfully, yes. theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-un...

The latest @reasonstobecheerful.world newsletter is all about giving - and it includes my story from a little while ago, about the wealth advisors helping their clients to give more money away. Read it here: reasonstobecheerful.world/giving-away-... #philanthropy #wealth #giving

Latest in our Earth Fixers series - this time, we look at some of the organisations making nature "bankable" @hoganlovells.bsky.social @unep.org @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

🔴 The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods The newspaper has been scolding the BBC for its editorial failings, while issuing a string of climate corrections. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Farage: epic grifter

New feature from us at @pioneerspost.bsky.social - this time on how #openmapping - plus drones, AI and community engagement - can help people better prepare for and respond to climate disasters. immersives.pioneerspost.com/openstreetma... #opensource @hotosm.org

New story by me for @proximate.bsky.social www.proximate.press/latest-stori... @escp.bsky.social @nyuwagner.bsky.social @timabansal.bsky.social

Researchers across the US and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings, and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals. From our friends at @insideclimatenews.org:

📣 Less than two weeks to submit! #TheMagazine is still seeking pitches from #Indigenous storytellers for our next edition about Indigenous changemakers in 2025. 📆 Deadline: Sept 30 Read the thread for the details. 🔗 Find the guide for submissions here: crushingcolonialism.org/call-for-sub...

"Kent County Council has scrapped its declaration of a climate emergency, making Kent one of the few places in the country to row back from acknowledging the crisis." thank you to @kentcurrent.news for covering this: www.kentcurrent.news/p/kent-counc... #climateemergency

"This gets me kicked out of all the family office conferences: taxes! We’re big proponents of any kind of #wealthtax... This irritates everyone, even the impact investors." I spoke to the Hyatt heiress & impact investor, who's not afraid to get *very* political: (Free to read, for now!)

To even allow the appearance of this — Starmer’s No 10 adopting Trumpian media management policies — seems extraordinary to me. Very depressing.

A body of research shows that risky play can set children up for life - and even insurance companies agree. Interesting read by @reasonstobecheerful.world:

"Diabetes is not a scary word for people. It should be" Untreated diabetes is associated with serious complications - vision loss, TB, kidney disease - but its seriousness is often underestimated, making it hard to attract funding. I wrote about a new initiative that hopes to change this:

This is a delightful read, including: "When a piece [...] described the singer Art Garfunkel waving his arms around, the checker asked Garfunkel to confirm that he had two arms." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @newyorker.com

Lush shuts UK shops 'in solidarity' with Gaza

Our story from Medellin: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2... @juliepybus.bsky.social @pioneerspost.bsky.social

'Shikoh Gitau, founder/CEO at Qhala, a Nairobi-based digital transformation firm, believes altruistic AI health models are built to collect data and reap profits later. “They are commercial organizations and they’re here to win the commercial race"' restofworld.org/2025/africa-... @restofworld.org

🚨 This morning we turned the street outside Labour Party Headquarters in London into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. Listen to @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social talking about what the Israeli army did to his neighourhood and family.

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

Grim. Includes 4.5 million deaths among children under five years old.

"If there’s 100 journalists, the job of 99 of them is to point to the problem. But 1% of us have to go, ‘Well, what are we going to do about it?’" Tips from @oliverbalch.bsky.social @lolagarciaajofrin.bsky.social @soljourno.bsky.social By me for @icfjorg.bsky.social: ijnet.org/en/story/gui...

Lovely to see my latest story for @reasonstobecheerful.world picked up by @squirrelnews.bsky.social, "a curated, constructive news app". If you need a break from doom-scrolling, get Squirrel on your phone (available in English and German): squirrel-news.net #solutionsjournalism

New story from us at @pioneerspost.bsky.social - the latest in our Earth Fixers series:

Only 10% of our capacity for #empathy is genetic - the rest comes from things like upbringing and education. For @reasonstobecheerful.world, I looked at some projects showing that empathy is a teachable skill: reasonstobecheerful.world/kids-learnin...

"Are they just too certain in their convictions?...Too much like corporate CEOs presenting results to shareholders rather than individuals grappling with power imbalances and the uncomfortable truths of a system that enables such extreme wealth accumulation?" www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/bil...

"For five years America kept [Evan] alive with antiretroviral medicines costing less than 12 cents a day, through PEPFAR, a program started by President George W. Bush that has saved more than 26 million lives... it turned the tide of AIDS around the world and built enormous good will toward the US"

By me for @proximate.bsky.social : www.proximate.press/latest-stori... #fiscalsponsor #tech4good

New podcast episode from us - listen to these three 'good experts', who are bringing a much-needed ethical and thoughtful approach to using #AI. #socialenterprise #tech4good

Tens of thousands of people in the Hague protesting the Dutch government’s failure to respond meaningfully to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Dressed in red to mark the ‘red line’ that has been crossed. (📸 ANP) nos.nl/l/2567762

NEW: Arab Impact Network launched to push MENA impact investment beyond 2% of global market The newly launched Arab Impact Network aims to build an inclusive movement of impact organisations and is inviting expressions of interest. Read more 👇 www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...

"There was one circumstance in particular that stood out in the data: people who were *asked to help* almost never refused. The secret to being a hero? It was to have someone standing in front of you, demanding heroism." #altruism

Future thinking is not new - Indigenous communities have long practised “seven-generation” stewardship - but it's gaining real momentum. Thanks to @nickhedley.bsky.social for publishing this piece on Wales' 10-year milestone: theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/04/l... @futuregencymru.bsky.social

🔴 #RSFIndex2025 | In 2025, less than 1% of the world's population lives in a country where press freedom is fully guaranteed. #WPFD2025 #WorldPressFreedomDay

NEW | Paul Polman at ChangeNOW: 'Don’t drop impact commitments because the US president makes a phone call' Read our report from the #ChangeNOW conference in Paris: www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/2...