In 2020, the Foundation provided more than $10 million to nonprofits worldwide through its annual grant program. The 2020 program supported nearly 200 organizations across 30 countries – benefiting more than two million students and first responders. The Foundation has donated $100 million over the past 10 years, aims to partner with organizations who are… [Read More]

The Rights to Water and Sanitation Handbook is a resource designed especially for community groups, human rights NGOs, and rights-based development practitioners and aid workers in adopting or improving their human rights-based approach to advocacy on water and sanitation. It provides innovative and practical suggestions for promoting and protecting the rights to water and sanitation…. [Read More]

Yes, the German Embassy in Pakistan has launched the Micro Projects Scheme to improve the social and economic development of the most underprivileged groups of society. For years NGOs, local committees, associations, welfare societies, schools and kindergartens have been supported on a non-profit basis. The scheme is solely for organizations based in Pakistan. Companies cannot… [Read More]

Hi, Both are different.  There is often confusion between the Theory of Change and the Logical framework (log frame). The two concepts are closely related but still different. ToC gives the ‘big picture’ in the sense that it brings into focus the complex processes (social, economic, institutional underlying the desired change. Logical Framework, on the… [Read More]

Hello! EDP – Energias de Portugal has recently launched its AE2 CSR Fund Program to contribute to alleviate energy poverty by supporting sustainable and clean energy projects in remote rural areas. These projects, based on sustainable renewable energy solutions, have been contributing to the social, economic and environmental development of the rural communities in developing… [Read More]

This is a time for collaborations, partnerships, scales and thus revolutionizing the social development milieu. Especially in the wake of corporate social responsibility and sustainability concerns finding their ways into corporate strategies across countries and geographies; the state, the private sector and the ‘third’ sector are collaborating across spaces to lead to a better, converging… [Read More]

Yes, The 2021 MIT Water Innovation Prize is offering $35k in innovation grants to student-led teams. The 2021 MIT Water Innovation Prize – a startup competition focused on water innovation that awards innovation grants annually to student-led teams from across the country and internationally. As the main innovation-focused event of MIT Water Club, they help… [Read More]

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is a US Government Agency that is responsible for administration of all foreign civilian aid. It was established in the year 1961, and is headquartered at Washington DC. The mission statement of USAID is to ‘to partner to end extreme poverty and to promote resilient, democratic societies while… [Read More]

As an NGO, you have often come across the need to write a case study. This could be either for the purpose of documenting a report, doing a research, developing a proposal or simply because you have come across an interesting incident relating to your work and you would like to capture it in words… [Read More]

As you have asked this question, I assume that you already have an idea about bilateral agencies. If not then, here it is the term bilateral means “two-sided” and refers to organizations that operate directly between two well-defined parties, typically, two countries. A bilateral agency may restrict its interactions to only two countries. However, a… [Read More]