Crises are no longer arriving one at a time and philanthropy is being asked to make long-term decisions under conditions of growing pressure.
War, climate stress, environmental damage, and economic instability increasingly unfold simultaneously. Yet funding strategies and institutional structures are still largely designed for sequential crises: emergency response first, long-term transformation later.
As the full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, this gap is becoming impossible to ignore.
Ukraine brings into focus the operating conditions likely to shape philanthropic work over the coming decade: energy systems rebuilt under attack, environmental damage with global consequences, and civil society sustaining resilience under continuous strain. The familiar divide between emergency response and long-term transformation has collapsed. Urgency continues, but long-term choices cannot wait.
What does operating in an age of overlapping crises require from philanthropy over the next decade?
Taking place during Philea’s Year of Climate and Environment, this 90-minute online conversation invites foundations and institutional donors from across the globe to reflect on Ukraine not only as a country resisting invasion, but as an early signal of the conditions increasingly shaping philanthropic work across multiple contexts.
This session will explore what operating at the intersection of war and environment reveals about funding, resilience, and institutional roles in the years ahead.
Convened by Foundations for Ukraine, Philea, Council on Foundations, and WINGS.
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