Philanthropy Impact

Universal Basic Income - Why Now, Some Basics

Magazine

Welcome to the first Philanthropy Impact Magazine in the new shorter, more compact format. The first issue in this new format explores the role of Universal Basic Income and philanthropy and features articles from philanthropists, researchers and stakeholders.

Magazine contents

Philanthropy and universal basic income

31 July 2017

Magazine article

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to his alma mater, Harvard University, to deliver the commencement address to this year’s graduates, he urged the students to commit themselves to building...

Basic income and the social safety net

31 August 2017

Magazine article

On 24 April 2017, the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, announced the details of a basic income pilot to begin in the late spring of this year. The project will...

Universal consensus on unconditional basic income? Mapping the discourse in Germany

28 September 2017

Magazine article

Universal basic income (UBI) has recently made the headlines in Germany, certainly fuelled by the basic income referendum in Switzerland in 2016 and the ongoing UBI experiment in Finland. The...

Universal basic income: GiveDirectly is testing a big idea

12 October 2017

Magazine article

Last October I was privileged enough to be a little part of history. A long, sometimes dusty drive through the cool African morning had brought me and others from the...