
BY JILL CHIN With increasing levels of wealth across Asia-Pacific, there is great potential to address pressing humanitarian needs by increasing funding flows between countries in the region. However, potential donors face a range of challenges: from varying tax incentives to vastly different regulations and restrictions on sending donations across borders—these hinder the growth of effective and sustained philanthropic giving within the region. Given an increasingly complex and diverse landscape of international philanthropy in the region, Asia Philanthropy Circle, Give2Asia and the King Baudouin Foundation have embarked on Transnational Giving Asia (TGA), a 1-year Feasibility Study to assess the appetite…