Browsing by Subject "NGO"

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    Grassroots Aid Survey: Key Findings on Small International Development Organizations
    (Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, 2022) Schnable, Allison; Appe, Susan; Richardson, Derek
    This report provides the first national survey data on the programs, finances, and challenges of small and mid-sized international development nonprofits. The data are drawn from the 2021 Grassroots Aid Survey, with a sample of 185 U.S.-based international development organizations with annual budgets of less than $1 million. We summarize key findings and offer a few conclusions for these nonprofits’ own work, the entities that support them, and for future research.
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    Peace and Sport: Challenging Limitations Across the Sport for Development and Peace Sector
    (2012-10-16) Bellotti, Jeremy Aaron; McCormick, John S.; Pegg, Scott M.; Snodgrass, Michael D.
    This paper examines an international SDP NGO in relation to the most challenging limitations facing the current Sport for Development and Peace sector. Employing an existing academic framework of the contemporary SDP sector, this case study explores under what conditions an SDP organization might begin to emancipate themselves from such limitations.
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    State power and elite autonomy in a networked civil society: The board interlocking of Chinese non-profits
    (Elsevier, 2017-10-31) Ma, Ji; DeDeo, Simon; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    In response to failures of central planning, the Chinese government has experimented not only with free-market trade zones, but with allowing non-profit foundations to operate in a decentralized fashion. A network study shows how these foundations have connected together by sharing board members, in a structural parallel to what is seen in corporations in the United States and Europe. This board interlocking leads to the emergence of an elite group with privileged network positions. While the presence of government officials on non-profit boards is widespread, government officials are much less common in a subgroup of foundations that control just over half of all revenue in the network. This subgroup, associated with business elites, not only enjoys higher levels of within-elite links, but even preferentially excludes government officials from the NGOs with higher degree. The emergence of this structurally autonomous sphere is associated with major political and social events in the state–society relationship. Cluster analysis reveals multiple internal components within this sphere that share similar levels of network influence. Rather than a core-periphery structure centered around government officials, the Chinese non-profit world appears to be a multipolar one of distinct elite groups, many of which achieve high levels of independence from direct government control.
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    Transparency Vs. Delegitimization? Shrinking Space for Foreign-Funded Organizations in Democracies: Hungary and Israel
    (2018-12) Horvath, Kinga Zsofia; Herrold, Catherine; Badertscher, Kathi; Adelman, Carol
    The shrinking space for civil society and the increasing number of unfavorable legislation affecting the work of non-governmental organizations continue to be burning issues for global philanthropy. Using a case study approach, this thesis explores how democracies regulate the operation of foreign-funded non-governmental organizations in Hungary and Israel. This thesis examines what the presumed and real motivations of democratic governments are to adapt such regulations and how the political, economic and socio-cultural environments might influence their enactment. This thesis also compares the Hungarian and Israeli regulations to the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act.