What would it mean to build an economy that works for people, communities and society as a whole? Join us for a global conversation on Monday 26 October at 12 pm GMT. For decades, the system of international development aid and philanthropy has focused downstream of the economy, responding to poverty, inequality and exclusion in the form of livelihoods, social protection and financial inclusion programmes. What rarely gets discussed, however, are the larger, more consequential questions about the economy. How is value created and distributed, for example? How is work valued – and by whom? Who owns productive assets or controls capital?...

This piece originally appeared on the Global Greengrants Fund website.    What living systems can teach philanthropy about power, trust and change. Across philanthropy and international development, “systems change” has become a familiar ambition. But what if some of the ways we think about changing systems are still rooted in the very logic we need to leave behind? In a recent conversation, How Does Your Garden Grow? (see the recording below), hosted by Alliance Magazine, Barry Knight invited participants to move away from what he called a “machine mind” — the idea that complex social and ecological systems can be managed by pulling the...