Ahead of our infrastructure issue, we talk to a few protagonists in the debate and sketch out the likely ground to be covered. What will be the effect of digital technology? How will infrastructure respond to the growth of informal giving movements? And in the super-information age, is the old model (of member services and an annual conference) dying?

On the face of it, the news for philanthropy is good. According to a recent CAF report, giving potential is likely to expand prodigiously over the next dozen years, especially in the global south.

The Brookings Institute estimates the global middle class may swell by 2.4 billion people globally by 2030 and that their spending could almost double from $34 trillion to $64 trillion over the same period.

These developments create huge opportunities for philanthropy, but it remains to be seen how well the field is positioned to exploit them.

Read the full article by Andrew Milner about philanthropy infrastructure from Alliance Magazine