News and updates from BCSDN and the region
GrantCraft has just released its new guide – Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. This guide is a first-of-its-kind look at how funders can cede decision-making power about funding decisions to the communities they aim to serve. Funders are increasingly looking to engage the communities they serve in the grantmaking process, but
Read more →Scandinavian countries are the most committed national development actors, according to this year’s Commitment to Development Index, which measures not just aid levels, but also how well other policies foster sustainable development. Germany ranked third, making it the first time a G-7 country is placed in the top three in CDI’s 15-year history. The United
Read more →The Global Trends in Giving Report is a research project that seeks to gain a better understanding of how donors prefer to give and engage with their favorite causes and charitable organizations. Sponsored by the Public Interest Registry and researched by Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how
Read more →Increasingly, public figures across Europe are twisting the meaning of “political activity” by claiming that NGOs overstep the mark when they campaign publicly for social or policy change: that they somehow encroach on territory reserved exclusively for political parties. According to a piece written by Cathal Gilbert from CIVICUS and Giada Negri from European Civic
Read more →CONCORD has just published a policy paper evaluating the thematic programmes of the external instrument and proposing alternatives. The document explains why the current proposed amount of 7 billion EUR for thematic lines under the Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) is insufficient to allow the EU to be able to live up to
Read more →It was around the middle of 2016 when the Global Fund for Community Foundations, started to use the hash-tag #ShiftThePower. These are increasingly challenging times for civil society globally with many of the rules of recent decades fast being re-written. Traditional flows of aid are changing and new actors – from China’s emergence as a
Read more →The 2017 Charitable Giving Report is one of the most credible resources on fundraising performance in the social good community, tracking nearly USD 30 billion in U.S.-based charitable giving from the Blackbaud Index. In this report, you’ll get your first look at 2017 giving data and how philanthropy was affected by this year of change
Read more →All 193 member nations of the United Nations agreed in September 2015 to adopt a set of seventeen “Sustainable Development Goals,” to be achieved by 2030. Each of the goals—in such areas as education and health care —is laudable in and of itself, and governments and organizations are working to achieve them. But so far
Read more →Fond Romania has published the report “The Donor-CSO Relationship in the Black Sea Region” that maps the donors active in the wider Black Sea region, assesses the level of accessibility of the funds offered and analyzes the degree to which donor-CSO relationship is leading to a sustainable and independent civil society. Moreover, the report puts
Read more →A new report by the Council on Foundations and Foundation Center reveals that international giving by U.S. foundations increased by 29% from 2011 to 2015, reaching an all-time high of $9.3 billion in 2015. Key findings from this trends analysis include: just 12% of international grant dollars from U.S. foundations went directly to organizations based
Read more →The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development- Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) held a meeting with CSOs representatives in May. The goal of this event was to promote dialogue with CSOs and strengthen civil society space. In this occasion, CSOs from all over the world had the opportunity to express their concerns and share information with
Read more →When the Member States of the United Nations approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, they agreed that the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets should be met for all nations and peoples and for all segments of society. Governments and stakeholders negotiating the 2030 Agenda backed the ambition of leaving no one behind,
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