The latest report by Dasra on Crafts and Livelihood sponsored by the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations has just been released!
On 14 September 2012, the twenty students of class 7p at the Bois des Arts school in Thonex near Geneva, along with their three music teachers, reunited for a very special ceremony.
When the buzz goes around on ethics at school, responsible citizenship, the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations innovate in terms of philanthropic education by creating an avant-gardist association: “L’Ecole de la Philanthropie”. This program aims at educating children in the last two years of primary school on philanthropy and today’s social challenges.
They were six to arrive at Lorient airport wearing shorts on Tuesday 5 June in real Breton sailing weather. Accompanied by their official skipper, Raimon Martinez, and Paco Segura, Vice President of the Joves Navegants Foundation to which they belong in Palma de Majorque, they were there to meet the Gitana Team.
Between Thursday, May 31st and Sunday, June 3rd, the Fellows of the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship organized almost simultaneous forums on cross cultural dialogue across the Atlantic, in New York and Paris. Both initiatives strengthened the involvement of the Ariane de Rothschild network in practical cross-cultural collaborations and spaces.
At a time when the "Arab Spring" has led to various political revolutions in North Africa, a seminar was held on April 10th and 11th 2012, in Cambridge, United Kingdom, to reconsider the year of 1848 (also known as the "Spring of Nations") as "a turning point in history of political thought"
The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation (USA) has announced a strategic investment in Impact Investment Partners (IIP), an investment company specialized in critical goods and services in emerging markets, aimed at generating demonstrable social impact.
Brand new intercultural connections were made this week at Three Faiths Forum’s exhibition ‘Faith in the City’, held during National Interfaith Week.
At the invitation of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, Jacqueline Novogratz presented in Paris Acumen Fund’s original solutions against poverty