<![CDATA[...and some change]]>Philanthropy doesn't create change, people do.

Sometimes philanthropy helps. Sometimes it gets in the way. Often, it's somewhere in between.

For more than three decades, Alliance magazine has reported on philanthropy around the world-not to celebrate it or condemn it, but to understand it and to be its critical friend.

And some change continues that conversation. Rather than centring grants or fundraising, we centre change: how it happens, who drives it, who pays for it, who benefits, and who gets left out.

No buzzwords. No easy narratives. Every episode will explore stories about power, trust, risk, accountability, and the messy reality of trying to make the world better.

Hosted by Shafi Musaddique (Alliance magazine, The Guardian, Al Jazeera) 

Produced by Zibran Choudhury, Alliance magazine

]]>https://www.alliancemagazine.org/Riverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:15:25 GMTWed, 22 Jul 2026 13:20:34 GMT60Alliance magazine<p>Philanthropy doesn't create change, people do.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes philanthropy helps. Sometimes it gets in the way. Often, it's somewhere in between.</p><p></p><p>For more than three decades, Alliance magazine has reported on philanthropy around the world-not to celebrate it or condemn it, but to understand it and to be its critical friend.</p><p></p><p><i>And some change</i> continues that conversation. Rather than centring grants or fundraising, we centre change: how it happens, who drives it, who pays for it, who benefits, and who gets left out.</p><p></p><p>No buzzwords. No easy narratives. Every episode will explore stories about power, trust, risk, accountability, and the messy reality of trying to make the world better.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by Shafi Musaddique (Alliance magazine, The Guardian, Al Jazeera) </p><p>Produced by Zibran Choudhury, Alliance magazine</p>episodicAlliance magazinealliance@alliancemagazine.orgno<![CDATA[Hungary's quiet revolution]]>Long frozen under the grip of Viktor Orban, the winds of change are finally blowing in Hungary.

Just months after his election, prime minister Peter Magyar is leading an astonishing clean up job; sweeping in anti-corruption legislation, potentially removing the current president and plans to clamp the super-rich with a wealth tax. It would mean Hungary would become be the first current EU member to introduce a new wealth tax since the 1980s. 

But that is just half of the story.

There is another, untold side; of how communities, under the shadow of oppression, swapped ideas and moved money, keeping independent media and grassroots organisations – often deemed far too radical for the government - afloat.

This is the story of how everyday people – through the act of giving - forged political resistance from the margins of society. 

]]>86d7f639-2a4e-431b-abbc-f046ee108df4Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:08:49 GMT<p>Long frozen under the grip of Viktor Orban, the winds of change are finally blowing in Hungary.</p><p></p><p>Just months after his election, prime minister Peter Magyar is leading an astonishing clean up job; sweeping in anti-corruption legislation, potentially removing the current president and plans to clamp the super-rich with a wealth tax. It would mean Hungary would become be the first current EU member to introduce a new wealth tax since the 1980s. </p><p>But that is just half of the story.</p><p></p><p>There is another, untold side; of how communities, under the shadow of oppression, swapped ideas and moved money, keeping independent media and grassroots organisations – often deemed far too radical for the government - afloat.</p><p></p><p>This is the story of how everyday people – through the act of giving - forged political resistance from the margins of society. </p>no00:18:1511Hungary's quiet revolutionfull