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Who’s afraid of real returns?
Throughout the field of philanthropy there is a growing interest in performance measurement. Critics have worried that in focusing on measurement, funders tend to support easily quantifiable service delivery work rather than, say, advocacy or …
Mongolian Youth Development Centre – Channelling funds to Mongolian NGOs
Having moved from communist state to fledgling democracy in 1990, Mongolia is struggling against incredible poverty to bring its society up to what it sees as Western standards. The Mongolian Youth Development Centre (MYDC) is …
Romanian Environmental Partnership Foundation – Promoting a culture of good grantmaking
Established in 1998 as an independent operational NGO known as the Community Partnership Foundation, since 2000 the Romanian Environmental Partnership Foundation (REPF) has also been a grantmaking organization. As one of Romania’s first domestic grantmakers, …
McConnell Foundation – Starting to make grants overseas
As a relatively small private foundation in California, the McConnell Foundation had never discussed the idea of international giving. But World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn’s impassioned plea for all foundations gathered at the Council of …
Global Catalyst Foundation – Coming to terms with intermediaries
As I read the four-page handwritten request that arrived by mail, my heart went out to the rural women’s group in Uganda who sent it. They were thoughtful in their approach, made a convincing case …
Shack/slum dwellers international – Financing strategies for community goals
Several articles in this issue of Alliance have argued that donors should be more willing to invest directly in developing country NGOs. This article shows how Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), a global network of federations …
American India Foundation – Tapping into US wealth for India’s development
Channelling funds from richer to poorer countries effectively is the key objective of all organizations involved in overseas grantmaking and the paramount concern among donors. Various innovative models have been implemented in response to this …
Acumen Fund – Creating investment portfolios
Why do people tend to give locally rather than across national borders despite increasing acceptance of the interconnectedness of the world, its problems and solutions? In the US, for example, less than 2 per cent …
Give Foundation, India – Promoting giving for India’s development
People’s reluctance to give to charitable causes and organizations often stems from scepticism about NGOs and a lack of adequate information about how their money is used. They would be more likely to donate if …
Globalgiving.com – Globalizing opportunity
GlobalGiving.com (formerly DevelopmentSpace) has been described as the ‘eBay of international development’. While the comparison is not exact, it does reflect our mission: To become the world’s richest marketplace for international aid and philanthropy. And …