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On 11 March 1998 Lester Salamon addressed the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid on the subject of ‘USAID and civil society: A strategy for the future’. The following is an abridged version of …

Founded in 1949, the Council on Foundations began as an association for community foundations and ‘trusts for community welfare’. It is now the largest association of grant-making foundations and corporate giving programmes in the world. …

While the success or failure of R&D activities is generally judged over the long term, companies often expect CCI programmes to deliver ‘bottom-line’ outcomes in unrealistically short periods of time. What would CCI look like …

The King Baudouin Foundation sees itself very much in the role of broker, building bridges between business and society in order to create partnerships for development. The World Bank ‘Partners in Transition’ conference in Warsaw …

The origins of CAF, the Charities Aid Foundation, date back to 1924; since 1974 it has been an independent charity registered in the UK. CAF’s mission is simple yet far-reaching:to increase the flow of resources …

The EFC was established in Brussels on 9 November 1989 by seven of Europe’s leading foundations. Its mission is to help build philanthropy in Europe by promoting and supporting the activities of foundations and corporate …

The non-profit sector in Asia has grown dramatically in scale and scope in recent years, stimulated by increasing Asian wealth, growing middle classes with new expectations, increasing awareness of social disparities, and fiscal constraints on …

Cable & Wireless is one of the world’s leading providers of international telecommunications services. Its businesses provide 15 million customers in 70 countries with a complete range of international, domestic and mobile communications. Cable & …