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The Unbearable Lightness of Difficult Grant Guidelines Contributed by:
Risto KarajkovWednesday, April 18, 2007 (6 years 28 days ago)
To play with rephrasing, there are many difficult grant guidelines, but some are more difficult than others. Only not always for a reason.
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Rethinking Grant Guidelines Contributed by:
Risto KarajkovWednesday, August 09, 2006 (6 years 280 days ago)
Grant guidelines, as a set of rules and criteria that applicants abide by when turning to the funder for assistance, comprise a critical vehicle that conveys the funder's philosophy and approach. In many cases they are the applicant's strongest (and only) guidance of what a particular funder is about. The relation between a funder and applicant/implementer is essentially an unequal one in terms of balance of power. Despite lots of talk and debate on the issue, funders are by and large responsible for shaping a particular development agenda, often with quite little input from implementers and beneficiaries.
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The One Percent Solution: A Look at NGO Sustainability in Central and Eastern Europe Contributed by:
Risto KarajkovWednesday, September 07, 2005 (7 years 251 days ago)
One of the major issues in the Civil Society debate in Southeastern Europe, virtually since its post-communist burgeoning with the beginning of the nineties, was its sustainability.
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On Nonprofits in the Balkans: A Different Reality Contributed by:
Risto KarajkovWednesday, April 13, 2005 (8 years 33 days ago)
...[T]oday the nonprofits in the region are almost 90% foreign funded. This of course raises the recurrent dilemma of what will happen once donors start to pull out.
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