Philanthropy

Philippe Renaud, President & Founder of the "Fondation Eve la Vie", Geneva

General view on two national foundation markets in Central Europe:

• Switzerland: some 13‘000 foundations with an asset value approx. CHF 75 billion
• Germany: some 20‘000 foundations with an asset value approx CHF 90 billion
• There is an urgent need of higher professionalism in the foundation sector and its management
• Foundations are a quickly growing market
• More and better education in copong with foundation are needed

The Swiss Foundation Raport reveals the following challenges:

• The NPO sector shows an on-going growth especially for foundations
• Increase of attraction by more legal transformations of associations into foudations
• More professionalism within the foundation bussiness
• Higher professionalism in Asset management and building of fluctuation reserves
• Umbrella foundations and cooperation will increase in importance
• Structural reforms are challenging the function of the supervisiory authorities
• Volatile markets damand modern risk assessment
• Implementation of new governance structures are a challenge

Summary of the "Foiundation1796"-Study: Promoting Philanthropy in Switzerland:

• Increase coordination/collaboration/consolidation among funders and foundations, priority 62 %
• Increase available information and knowledge/practice on foundation management, priority 55 %
• There are many small foundations (assets < CHF 2 mi.) without professional staff
• Only 16 % of the Swiss foundations analyze regularly their project portfolios

Our philosophy:

We use the best-in-class approach by the meditation of learning content enhanced by topical or accurate external lectures and contributors. The lectures have a high level of quality. They are based on theoretical parts combined with practical know-how within the fields of foundations, NGO, NPO, economy and politics.

Aeron Yoon, Student of Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea