Letters
Patient gardeners needed
Pavol Demes’s comments on the ‘new local donor organizations that have evolved in Central and Eastern Europe’ (‘Then and now’, Alliance, June 2009) seem to be a clear answer to the question that constituted the title of a session at a Grantmakers East meeting a few years ago: what is the role of international donors/entrepreneurs in the region? Is it looking for a quick return or is it that of patient gardener?















