Dear Colleagues,
As some of you know, I am working on a project aimed at:
Providing to District Governments, village governments, NGOs,
communities, cooperatives, even individual entrepreneurs, in poor and
developing countries, knowledge, information, contacts, etc., to help
them:
1) dialog
Dear Colleagues,
Here is an interesting solution and perhaps a funding model that might
be useful for projects that require micro-financing:
http://www.fundable.org/
Respectfully,
Ken DiPietro
New-ISP
NextGenCommunications
***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit
Dear Colleagues,
The issue with access to international donors for indigenous NGOs is not
really related to their having information about the existence of such
donors, but with their ability to deal with the donors in a manner that
is acceptable to the donor. Basically, they need to speak the
Dear GKD Members:
Responding to Sam Lanfranco's recent posting it's important to add some
clarity to this discussion; perhaps even some sanity. I suspect some of
these comments may not be politically correct to some, but if we are in
fact going to solve serious problems, we have to have a clear
Dear Colleagues:
I'd like to add a small contribution to this discussion re: bringing
together international funding sources outside the formal ODA mechanisms
with local community development efforts.
One of the emerging areas that holds a potential contribution to funding
of more local
Dear GKD Members,
I'm not sure that Janice Brodman's story about isolated NGOs in
Bosnia-Herzegovina trying to find private donors is much different from
small non profits in rich countries trying to find private donors. I'm
sure there are advantages to being in the US, but small charities still
Dear GKD Members:
I share Janice Brodman's feelings about the fact that good NGOs in
developing countries do not have a presence, and have little voice, when
it comes to dealing with donors, and development issues, as monopolized
by the 'North'.
For example, too much of the dialogue in the North
Dear GKD Colleagues:
You guys are great. Churning over your ideas, input and experience has
given me so much to contemplate I wish we could have an e-conference in
real time; this might prove quite transformative.
Tom Abeles, I loved your succint analysis of the issues. What field are
you
Dear GKD Colleagues,
I am currently in Bosnia-Herzegovina, looking at some opportunities for
ICT to support economic development in this beautiful country that has
been through such suffering. Great progress has been made in rebuilding,
although sometimes one feels the trauma that people have
On 6/24/05, Gena Fleming wrote:
Currently, people in need of funding need to do quite a bit of sleuthing
to find funding sources. Can we create an alternative? I am imagining a
website which showcases a diversity of projects through photos and brief
descriptions (women's rights, sustainable
Dear Colleagues,
As I've been struggling over the last couple of years to build up an NGO
in rural Guatemala, I have been learning a lot about trying to match our
organization's needs and wants with those of donors. It has been much
tougher than I expected. Those of us in the field have specific
Dear Arrigo:
I am interested in the topic you present, with respect to finding
funding for grassroots endeavors, and I see your question has also
generated a good deal of response. I did a bit of internet searching a
while back trying to assist a friend in South Africa who was starting an
NGO for
Dear Arrigo,
You may be interested in some of the guidance on getting EU funding
(including for projects based outside the EU) on the website of the
EMERGENCE project - http://www.emergence.nu/toolkit/index.php is the
home page for the toolkit and the links to funders are on
Dear Colleagues,
I would be very interested in the answer to this question myself.
Speaking for the Transparency and Accountability Network, and our new
program to help raise money for relief and development activities, we
are looking for activities that demonstrably improve the quality of life
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