Respected Bayes Centre for Charity Effectiveness Alumna Sets out a New Path for Philanthropy

"It is painful to acknowledge, Fozia said, that institutional philanthropy has not had a leading part in the catalysation of the most profound social movements of the last 10 years."

So writes Fozia Irfan in her manual for social change, published this week by the UK's Bayes Business School.

Irfan is the director of impact and influence at the BBC's Children's Need charity, and she traveled to the US last year to study foundations that have adopted "social justice-based approaches to tackling inequality," Bayes Business School explains in a press release.

Among the takeaways from Irfan's study, which was funded by a fellowship from the late Winston Churchill, are that foundations need to be more intentional about what they do and how they do it.

"If we want social change, we need to be more intentional about who we are, what we do, and how we do it," Irfan says in the manual, which is not a book, but rather "my translation of their ideas into a prototype or a model which can be put into practice here."

In her press release, Irfan says she wants to "share what I learned through meeting these amazing, inspirational funders who were unapologetic about their approach."

That approach, she says, is based

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