News and updates from BCSDN and the region
Discrimination dawns in cultural, social, economic, and technological forms. Technological discrimination entails how technology treats groups of people as amorphous and cannot distinguish between individuals because of the lack of data to perform it. The effects vary from incorrect suspect identification leading to wrongful arrest through constant prejudice in the workplace to embedding a cycle
Read more →ECNL Fundraising Principles provide a global overview of current trends in fundraising regulation and self-regulation. The principles propose recommendations based on international and regional standards and country practices, aiming to support advocacy efforts and serve as a reference point to promote and facilitate further dialogue between CSOs and policymakers. The overview addresses 7 key areas:
Read more →In its publication, ECNL explains that the digital revolution and artificial intelligence (AI) provide new horizons for philanthropy. Digital technologies are used throughout fundraising, starting from promoting the beneficiary organization or cause, identifying the target groups, storing their data, reaching out to them, and processing the donation. AI -intended as machine-learning algorithms -and automated decision-making
Read more →Since the start of the pandemic, fundraisers worldwide have had to rethink their strategies, budgets, and models. The organizations, on the other hand, adjusted to the crisis in different ways. Some have used cash reserves; a part dismissed team members; others changed budgets into online channels. Besides the fact that the covid-19 crisis is a
Read more →Catalyst Balkans delivered infographics, presenting data for helping prevent the consequences from COVID-19, as well as people’s reactions in the past 12 months. In terms of the value of donations, from the beginning of the crisis to 31 March 2021, Catalyst processed data on 5,832 philanthropic instances in the Western Balkans and registered the total amount of
Read more →Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced that over the course of 2020 DAC donors allocated 161.2 billion USD of official development assistance (ODA), more commonly known as ‘development aid’. Despite the long-standing commitment to contribute 0.7% of gross national income towards ODA, the 2020 figures show that only 32 cents for every 100
Read more →The World Bank supports the call for people’s free vaccines and transparency in countries’ decisions regarding COVID-19 vaccinations to reduce information barriers and permit scrutiny and monitoring. However, the importance of respecting governments’ decisions on how to implement their vaccination campaigns in the best way should not be undermined. At the recent civil society event
Read more →Almost a year after the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic, the world is still striving to recover and operating in the “new normal.” In 2020, funders responded quickly, directing emergency funds to organizations on the ground and committing to changes in their grantmaking practices and priorities to assist nonprofits in
Read more →To create the 2021 Ariadne Forecast, 275 Ariadne members and friends of the network filled in surveys, participated in interviews and attended online forecast meetings to share their insights into European social change trends and human rights philanthropy 2021. The report marks the challenges and opportunities this year might bring for grantees; how funder practice could
Read more →Faced with Covid-19 challenges, NGOs and donors explored new ways to work for the communities by increasing their responsibilities. The article suggests that the donors will place the pandemic as its top priority, but addressing Covid-19 and its impact will not become a cross-cutting theme across all projects. In opposite, donors will demand a special
Read more →According to the new report, “Future-Proofing Nonprofits for the Post-Pandemic World”, published by CAF America, digital fundraising capabilities and strategic financial planning are essential skills that nonprofits need in order to remain resilient in the post-pandemic world. The report summarizes the findings from a poll of 805 charitable organizations (more than 300 European) in over
Read more →Catalyst Balkans delivers infographics about philanthropy’s response to COVID-19 in Western Balkans. From the beginning of the crisis to the end of January 2021, data is showed on 5,645 philanthropic examples in the region and registered 67,361,175 EUR in donations. While in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia, most of the
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