By Ellen Knickmeyer
Vastly more people needing help, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly in the slums of the world’s poorest cities. More climate crises, both slow-moving and abrupt. More military involvement in humanitarian work. More …
Recently the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, in partnership with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, hosted a seminar exploring the extent to which international NGOs are influencing world politics.
As part of the panel, …
The American Red Cross announced recently that their disaster relief fund was depleted, meaning the organization will have to borrow significant sums to fund relief operations for the Midwest floods. This is not a good situation, especially …
Eugene Tempel and Una Osili have an article in the recent Nonprofit Times that examines how recent trends in immigration might affect the U.S. nonprofit sector.
Their analysis provides additional nuance to the previous postings on …
On Monday, the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program at the Aspen Institute released Mobilizing Change: 10 Nonprofit Policy Proposals to Strengthen U.S. Communities. Full disclosure: I helped edit the paper and wrote much of the …
Some of the indexes mentioned in my recent posts group NGOs together with private philanthropy (i.e., grantmaking foundations) when creating their classifications, since both derive support from private contributions and are independent organizations with private …
While both the Homi Kharas/Blum Brookings summary and the Index of Global Philanthropy focus solely on quantity, the Center for Global Development’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI) attempts to incorporate aspects of aid quality. Since ”aid …
The Index of Global Philanthropy 2008 (mentioned in my previous post) tries to take a comprehensive approach to tracking funding flows and has developed a measure called “U.S. economic engagement.” It includes official development assistance (ODA); …
The private giving numbers cited in the Brookings report of the last post come from an essay by Homi Kharas, The New Reality of Aid. Kharas sifts through the published data to estimate just how much …
Earlier this year Brookings released Making Poverty History? How Activists, Philanthropists, and the Public are Changing Global Development, a report based on the Brookings Blum Roundtable 2007. While it contains much of interest, one item …
Regarding mechanisms to raise and distribute funds in the wake of emergencies, it might be productive to revisit lessons from my experience with hurricane Katrina. I arrived in Louisiana 10 days after the storm and …
