Defining Strategies and Roles
By A. Scott DuPree and David Winder with Cristina Parnetti, Chandni Prasad and Shari Turitz | August 2000 | View Full Text | Email Link
Abstract
This is a chapter from the Foundation Building Sourcebook: A Practitioners Guide Based on Experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
This chapter examines how three foundations selected strategies and roles to exercise leadership in overcoming challenges to development in their societies. It explores the complimentary nature of these strategies.
Examples
- Strengthening Civil Society: Foundation for Community Development (Mozambique)
- Empowering Individuals and Institutions to Overcome Poverty.: Esquel Ecuador Foundation
- Searching for New Approaches to Sustainable Economic Development: Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc. (The Philippines)
Summary Points
- Foundations can take advantage of their independence to adopt creative and innovative strategies to achieve their goals.
- Foundations seeking to make a difference in their own societies have developed a range of strategies for strengthening civil society and creating vibrant local economies.
- The challenge is to ensure that in addition to solving specific problems the grants generate new solutions that have the potential for broader impact.
- A focus on capacity building can be an important complement to grant support to CBOs and NGOs.
- The convening of civil society organizations with other sectors can be a useful strategy for introducing changes in public policy.
Funding for the Sourcebook was provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, with additional support from Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, Avina, Inc., the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
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