Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize
Using PechaKucha style, in this plenary get ready to meet the seven finalists for this year’s Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize! They come from Brazil, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa and their work extends throughout South America, Asia and Southern Africa. They are equally diverse in terms of the variety of their approaches to building philanthropy.
Check out biographies of each of the finalists:
About Olga Alexeeva
Olga Alexeeva died suddenly and unexpectedly on 20 July 2011. Olga was only 42. She had recently left Charities Aid Foundation to set up the Philanthropy Bridge Foundation, whose goal was to build meaningful connections, partnerships and, most importantly, trust between philanthropists looking to give and individuals and institutions looking to ‘do’ in developing and emerging market countries around the world.
Underpinning this was Olga’s unswerving belief that philanthropy should and could be about making the world a better and fairer place, and that the best solutions invariably emerge when they are inspired and informed by local context rather than being imported from outside. This prize is in honour of her memory and beliefs.
About the funders
The Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize is an Alliance magazine project. It is generously supported by: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Lodestar Foundation and the Vladimir Potanin Foundation.
