Letters
Trade associations are … just that
1 March 2009
Alliance magazine
As Mr Gunderson notes in his comments on my ‘Watchdog or lapdog?’ article in the September issue of Alliance, the call for foundation accountability is ‘hardly new’. Nor is the limited progress the foundation sector continues to make on accountability. Both Mr Gunderson and Mr Salole react quite strongly against the notion that either the Council on Foundations in the US or the European Foundation Centre, both ‘membership organizations’, have significant roles to play as watchdogs.
