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Press and Journal
3 days ago
- Sport
- Press and Journal
Ross County: Scott Allardice and James Brown to leave Staggies
Ross County have begun the process of preparing their squad for Championship football next season – with Scott Allardice and James Brown to leave the Staggies. County suffered relegation from the Premiership on Monday, following a 5-3 aggregate play-off final defeat to Livingston. County ended the campaign with a dismal run of 11 matches without a victory, with their last triumph coming at home to Kilmarnock on March 1. Manager Don Cowie indicated following relegation that he believes he remains the man to lead the Staggies' push to return to the top flight. A number of discussions are ongoing this week to pore over what went wrong for the Dingwall outfit this season, but also with a view towards setting foundations for next season. Two players who will not be part of the plans next season are midfielder Allardice and defender Brown, who have spent the last two seasons with the Staggies. Allardice joined County in 2023 following a three-year spell with Highland rivals Caley Thistle, however injuries have limited his impact to 39 appearances during that time. Allardice said: 'Whilst it was the worst possible ending, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone at the football club from the fans through to the staff off the field. 'Whilst it has not gone the way I would have wanted over the last two years, I have always tried to have a good impact on and off the park. 'I hope the club gets back up at the first time of asking.' Irishman Brown was also brought to the club by Malky Mackay two years ago, after leaving Blackburn Rovers, and has gone on to feature 73 times for the Dingwall outfit. Brown said: 'I would just like to say thanks for everything the club and staff have done for me over the past two years. 'It is a shame how things finished with the relegation but I have no doubt the club will bounce back. I wish everyone nothing but the best going forward.' Seven players who were on loan at Victoria Park have now moved on, with Zac Ashworth, Jonathan Tomkinson, Nohan Kenneh, Will Nightingale, Jack Grieves, Eli Campbell and Kacper Lopata returning to their parent clubs. Along with that, defender Connall Ewan has joined Elgin City on a two-year deal, having previously had a spell on loan at Borough Briggs. In the meantime, we look at the remaining six remaining players who are not under contract ahead of the new campaign. Signed from Wycombe Wanderers in 2021 64 appearances Signed from Salford City in 2023 58 appearances Academy product 13 appearances Signed from Airdrie in 2024 11 appearances Academy product 6 appearances Academy product Yet to make debut
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Brown and Allardice exit County after 'worst possible ending'
James Brown and Scott Allardice have left Ross County following the end of their contracts with the club relegated from the Scottish Premiership. Both joined the Dingwall club in summer 2023, 26-year-old defender Brown after leaving Doncaster Rovers and 27-year-old midfielder Allardice from Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Irishman Brown made 33 appearances, 23 of them starts, this season while Allardice made only seven starts and 13 off the bench. Both said thank you to County on the club website. Brown said: "It is a shame how things finished with the relegation, but I have no doubt the club will bounce back." Allardice described it as "the worst possible ending" and added: "Whilst it has not gone the way I would have wanted over the last two years, I have always tried to have a good impact on and off the park. "I hope the club gets back up at the first time of asking." Seven players who were on loan with County have also returned to their clubs - centre-backs Will Nightingale (Wimbledon), Elijah Campbell (Everton), Kacper Lopata (Barnsley) and Jonathan Tomkinson (Norwich City), left-back Zac Ashworth (Blackpool), midfielder Nohan Kenneh (Hibernian) and forward Jack Grieves (Watford). Meanwhile, 20-year-old defender Connall Ewan has joined League 2 club Elgin City on a two-year contract having ended the season on loan to Caley Thistle.
Time Magazine
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time Magazine
Nick Allardice
GiveDirectly was already one of the world's largest providers of unconditional cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty when Nick Allardice, former head of the grassroots organizing platform came on as president and CEO last year. Now, under Allardice's leadership, the nonprofit is undertaking its most ambitious projects yet—despite a $20 million hit to funding because of USAID cuts. 'We're leaning more into humanitarian work now because cash can be uniquely powerful when all the other supply chains are super disrupted,' Allardice says. In the U.S., GiveDirectly's Rx Kids initiative is expanding to more than a dozen communities, after an initial program in Flint, Mich. showed promising improvements to participants' health and financial security. The program provides poor expectant mothers with $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 a month for up to a year after the child's birth. Other new initiatives include a pilot program in Nigeria testing anticipatory aid, sending money to people before a flood hits; another uses phone location data in the Democratic Republic of Congo to spot and send cash payments to people fleeing violence—cutting a typical 130-day wait for relief to five days. Allardice's biggest bet: a program in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, to test 'whether it's possible to catalyze an entire country out of poverty simultaneously.' To find out, GiveDirectly will send 200,000 adults in one region $550 each over the next 18 months in its largest-ever cash program. 'The world needs more moonshots,' Allardice says.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nick Allardice
Credit - Courtesy Allardice GiveDirectly was already one of the world's largest providers of unconditional cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty when Nick Allardice, former head of the grassroots organizing platform came on as president and CEO last year. Now, under Allardice's leadership, the nonprofit is undertaking its most ambitious projects yet—despite a $20 million hit to funding because of USAID cuts. 'We're leaning more into humanitarian work now because cash can be uniquely powerful when all the other supply chains are super disrupted,' Allardice says. In the U.S., GiveDirectly's Rx Kids initiative is expanding to more than a dozen communities, after an initial program in Flint, Mich. showed promising improvements to participants' health and financial security. The program provides poor expectant mothers with $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 a month for up to a year after the child's birth. Other new initiatives include a pilot program in Nigeria testing anticipatory aid, sending money to people before a flood hits; another uses phone location data in the Democratic Republic of Congo to spot and send cash payments to people fleeing violence—cutting a typical 130-day wait for relief to five days. Allardice's biggest bet: a program in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, to test 'whether it's possible to catalyze an entire country out of poverty simultaneously.' To find out, GiveDirectly will send 200,000 adults in one region $550 each over the next 18 months in its largest-ever cash program. 'The world needs more moonshots,' Allardice says. Write to Kerri Anne Renzulli at
Time Magazine
20-05-2025
- Business
- Time Magazine
How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2025
In May, partners of the Gates Foundation gathered in Manhattan to announce that the organization would spend $200 billion over the next 20 years and then close its doors in 2045. Supporters, including Michael Bloomberg, were on hand to mark the occasion. The scene, staged at Carnegie Hall, a venue built by one of America's great 19th century philanthropists, paid tribute to a long tradition of American giving, while pointing to new ways of thinking that are shaping the 21st century. For those reasons, we include Bloomberg, the U.S.'s single largest recorded donor in 2024, and Mark Suzman, set to lead the next chapter of the Gates Foundation, in our inaugural TIME100 Philanthropy list. We launched the annual TIME100 21 years ago with the belief that individuals have the power to change the world, and in recent years we've expanded the franchise into areas poised to significantly shape our future— AI, Climate, Health, and now Philanthropy. In many places, as global institutions are chastened and world governments reverse ambitions, philanthropy is stepping into the void. This project, representing individuals from 28 countries and assembled by TIME's reporters, editors, and contributors around the world, was led by Ayesha Javed. 'At this pivotal moment, this list tells the stories of how generous donors and leaders of foundations and non-profits are directing funding into the communities that need it most,' Javed says. In the U.S. in particular, foundations are under increased pressure as the new Administration aims to remove the government from spaces where it previously played a substantial role. TIME100 Philanthropy honorees like Elizabeth Alexander and Nick Allardice are responding. As president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the U.S., Alexander says she focused on supporting 'multi-vocal, multi-experiential democracy' in America. And Allardice, who leads GiveDirectly—one of the world's largest providers of unconditional cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty—says he is leaning the organization further into humanitarian work despite a $20 million hit to funding due to USAID cuts. 'Cash can be uniquely powerful when all the other supply chains are super disrupted,' Allardice told TIME. A new generation of donors is doing things their own way. Katherine Lorenz, president of the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, was instrumental in creating the Giving Pledge Next Generation for descendants of Giving Pledge signatories to help shape their family giving, while Austrian heiress Marlene Engelhorn invited a council of fellow citizens to decide how to give away the bulk of her inheritance. Through their foundation Good Ventures and grantmaker Open Philanthropy, Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna take a data-focused approach to direct funds to causes where they can do the most good. Meanwhile, in January, Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood announced his mission to give away half his wealth within five years. He next plans to make direct cash payments to residents of poor counties in West Virginia, North Carolina, and Arizona. 'It's not a handout,' he says. 'It's an investment in our fellow Americans.' Collective giving is on the rise too. The grassroots movement allows individuals to pool resources for greater impact. According to the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, 'giving circles' have contributed more than $3.1 billion to social causes since 2017. Hali Lee, founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle and co-founder of the Donors of Color Network, argues the future of philanthropy belongs to community action. The new leaders in philanthropy, many of whom are accustomed to great success in their own fields, are eager to see impact and see it now. As David Beckham, a longtime UNICEF ambassador, says, 'The competitive part of it is, I want to see wins.'
