Benjamin Bellegy

The nearly thousand-strong Philanthropy For Climate movement has brought into focus the sector’s unique strengths and greatest challenges. The movement’s most recent report illustrates how. A male polar bear walking on sea ice in eastern Spitzbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, on April 9, 2025. OLIVIER MORIN / AFP At its best, philanthropy is generous, collaborative, holistic, flexible, and bold.

Here we are. The entirety of USAID’s, the biggest bilateral aid donor on earth, programmes were suddenly frozen last week by US President Trump. The organisation’s website is now offline, and the Trump administration is moving to put the free-standing agency under the umbrella of the State Department. Elon Musk, who now holds a key position in Trump’s government, has called the USAID ‘criminal’ and said it’s ‘time for it to die’.

Here we are. The entirety of USAID’s, the biggest bilateral aid donor on earth, programmes were suddenly frozen last week by US President Trump. The organisation’s website is now offline, and the Trump administration is moving to put the free-standing agency under the umbrella of the State Department. Elon Musk, who now holds a key position in Trump’s government, has called the USAID ‘criminal’ and said it’s ‘time for it to die’.