The Ford Foundation will commit $80 million over the next five years to work that strengthens nonprofits fighting against authoritarian regimes.
Members of Inzá, a community-based organization of peasants in Cauca, Colombia, gather for a General Assembly of the Asociación Campesina de Inzá Tierra Adentro in 2011. The group will be one of hundreds of nonprofits aided in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela by the $80 million Ford Foundation donation.
The Ford commitment, called Weaving Resilience, will not provide grants to individual nonprofits. Instead, it will support virtual “hubs” in 12 countries: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, where civil-society groups can receive help to make their organizations stronger.
“There is never a shortfall of interventions on the side of foundations doing institutional strengthening efforts but that all of them ultimately always fall short,” she said. “They never have a comprehensive vision, and they only focus on very specific issues as if those issues were enough to create resilience for the organization. The piecemeal approach to institutional strengthening has not been effective.”Hofbauer Balori hopes other foundations will join in.
“The trajectory has been discernibly negative,” says Christopher Walker, vice president of studies and analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy. Each hub will design its own strategy. Two organizations, Compartamos con Colombia, connects nonprofits to a network of lawyers, consultants, and bankers, and Dejusticia, a legal and civil-rights group, will manage the effort in the Colombia region. During its first year, the hub will offer its services to Colombian nonprofits and then expand to Peru and Venezuela. Over the next several years, the two organizations together hope to provide services to about 200 groups in the region.
The government has given nonprofits “space,” but Newman Pont worries social-justice and democracy organizations will lose some of their independence because they don’t want to be seen contradicting the new government.
日本 最新ニュース, 日本 見出し
Similar News:他のニュース ソースから収集した、これに似たニュース記事を読むこともできます。
2022 Ford GT LM Edition revealed as final GT special edition carThis is the last Ford GT special edition model Ford is introducing for the GT supercar, and Ford is calling it the GT LM Edition.
続きを読む »
Stocks Making the Biggest Moves in the Premarket: Tesla, Ford Motor, Goldman Sachs and MoreThese are the stocks posting the largest moves in pre-market trading.
続きを読む »
Ford GT Supercar Sent Off For Good With Limited LM Special EditionThe GT LM has a badge on the dashboard made from the ground down engine crankshaft of a 2016 Ford GT Le Mans race car.
続きを読む »
Ford GT production ends with new LM EditionHere it is, then: the LM Edition, absolutely the last and final Ford GT special to be made. Honest.
続きを読む »
Ford GT Supercar Bows Out with Racing-Inspired LM Edition2022 is the final year for Ford’s supercar, and the LM Edition takes cues from the 2016 class-winning race car with red or blue carbon-fiber elements.
続きを読む »