Tag: Foundations

10 Attitude Adjustments You Need for Raising Money

Money has no value. It just sits there. We give it value.   Raising money is powerful. It gives you the ability to do things. Don’t confuse raising money for your group with being critical of our economic system and how unfair it is to poor people.   Money is not manna from heaven. We…
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No Offense, But We Need A Plan B For Haiti: Failures Within The Social/Nonprofit Sector Need To Be Acknowledge

Being recognized as the Republic of NGOs, we, as nonprofits, fail to create sustainable projects to benefit the country. The norm of registration within the international community, including the Haitian diaspora, is to register their organization with their government as a 501(c)(3) organization or as an association or foundation in Europe. They are failing to…
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Effectiveness As Defined By Whom

What is effectiveness? As Herman and Renz have pointed out (2004, 1997), the concept of organizational effectiveness arises from a theoretical perspective which posits that formal organizations are created to achieve one or more consciously identified goals. Measures of effectiveness, therefore, seek to ascertain how well these goals have been achieved. There are several problems…
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Local Nonprofits

Local nonprofits to know in Haiti:  Jèn Mapou Jèn Mapou is the largest platform for discovering opportunities for young people in Haiti around the world. It is a platform that provides young Haitians in Haiti and the Diaspora with the latest opportunities for educational content that are free and available for continued personal development. This personal…
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Bilateral Versus Multilateral Funds

The terms bilateral and multilateral are technically used to distinguish flows of Official Development Assistance (ODA). The OECD defines bilateral transactions as those undertaken by a donor country directly with a developing country. They also include transactions with NGOs active in development and other, internal development-related transactions like debt relief, administrative costs and spending on…
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