Author Archive:
Andrew Kingman
Grantmaking beyond accession
The ambiguity in the title of the 2003 GEG meeting was quite deliberate: the intention was to look at the impact of EU enlargement not only on candidate countries but on the whole region. In …
What role for intermediaries?
For those of us who aim to encourage international giving, it is a depressing fact that overall levels of giving to international causes remain stubbornly low in most ‘donor’ countries. One reason for this is …
What role for intermediaries?
For those of us who aim to encourage international giving, it is a depressing fact that overall levels of giving to international causes remain stubbornly low in most ‘donor’ countries. One reason for this is …
Grantmakers East Group urged to take Chinese medicine approach
By general consensus this sixth annual meeting of Grantmakers East Group (GEG), held in Bucharest and hosted by the Romanian Donors Forum, was the best yet. Why? One significant factor, I suspect, was the decision …
Editorial – Information technology as a development tool
Welcome to the first issue of Alliance to be published by Allavida. For all of us involved with Allavida these are exciting times, if a little daunting too. We have a tremendous foundation on which …
Tapping into Africa’s ‘spirit of generosity’
Elkanah Odembo is a man with a mission. Establishing the Centre for Promotion of Philanthropy and Social Responsibility in Nairobi – a substantial challenge in itself – is for Elkanah only the means to a …
Charity Know How – imperial arrogance or valuable approach?
Both foundations with growing assets and institutional donors such as the British Government Department for International Development are exploring re-granting strategies – making large grants to organizations with the capacity to make a larger number …
Accreditation or self-regulation – a question of sympathy or solidarity
The NGO accreditation vs self-regulation debate rolls on – something we have featured previously in Alliance and an issue which is rightly being given ever more attention. But, rather like the posturing and soundbites of …
Growing Your Organization: A sustainability resource book for NGOs – Susan Pezzullo
Based on the experiences of IYF’s first decade, this book provides a wealth of sensible advice to ‘people who manage NGOs’. Although the author states that the book is not a how-to manual, NGO managers …
Sustaining civil society: why legitimacy matters
Recently, I heard a senior USAID grantmaker, addressing an audience of African NGO leaders, stress that he was only interested in funding ‘legitimate NGOs’. He meant something more than ‘formal legitimacy’, ie legitimacy granted by …
