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Funding, power and community development : an introduction / Fergal Finnegan and Niamh McCrea -- I. New configurations of power and governance -- Critical issues in philanthropy : power, paradox, possibility and the private foundation / Erica Kohl-Arenas -- ‘Walking the tightrope’ : the funding of South African NGOs and the governance of community development / Natascha Mueller-Hirth -- The reinvention of ‘civil society’ : transnational conceptions of development in East-Central Europe / Agnes Gagyi and Mariya Ivancheva -- Social finance and community development : exploring egalitarian possibilities / Brendan Murtagh and Niamh Goggin -- Corporate funding and local community development : a case from the mining industry in Australia / Robyn Mayes -- II. Questions of state and grassroots democracy -- Funding community organising : diversifying sources, democratising civil society / Robert Fisher and Hélène Balazard -- ‘It is time to re-territorialise utopian thinking’ : community, the commons and the funding of autonomous movements in Latin America - An interview with Marcelo Lopes de Souza -- III. Modes of agency and horizons of possibility -- Keeping the show on the road : a reflective dialogue between a community worker and a funder / Lin Bender and Japhet Makongo -- Local philanthropy and women’s empowerment : the case of Tewa, the Nepal Women’s Fund / Rita Thapa -- Communities of hope? Gendered re-signification of microcredit in rural India / Debarati Sen and Sarasij Majumder -- Building alternative communities within the state : the Kurdish movement, local municipalities and democratic autonomy / Ulrike Flader and Çetin Gürer.