Building on their long-standing work in philanthropic systems and role in supporting and catalyzing social change, Salzburg Global
Seminar and HIVOS convened an international program to analyze current funding methods and explore ways to build a healthier
funding ecosystem for social change. The program, Value(s) for Money? Philanthropy as a Catalyst for Social and Financial Transformation, was a high-level dialogue and strategic synthesis of emerging risks and trends in the funding of social transformation as explored in a provocative paper Beauty and the Beast: Can Money Ever Foster Social Transformation, by Michael Edwards, which examined the deep uncertainty in the relationship between money, power and social change.
