| Donor Agency |
Purpose of the donation or contract |
| SEEP Network, with AIMS funds for the Help Desk in 2000 |
To provide technical support via email to
those trying to implement impact assessments, using the AIMS-SEEP
tools. |
| Fund for Southern Communities, Atlanta, Georgia (2 grants in recent years) |
To provide support for IDEAS team members to carry out work that was not covered by funds provided by clients or other funding sources. (2002-3, 2004) |
| SEEP Network, paid to three IDEAS team members, for work in
Latin America. Funds originated from the AIMS Project of USAID. |
To support three trainers on the IDEAS team
to carry out three regional workshops in Nicaragua, El Salvador,
and Peru to help encourage impact evaluation in Latin America
(2001). |
| Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries
of the United Methodist Church, New York City |
To support follow-up technical assistance
to women’s groups interested in implementing their own
assessments of clients’ impacts or satisfaction, and to
support training of women in impact evaluation methodologies.
Paid for a Salvadoran woman to go to serve as a trainer on EPI
Info statistical software in Nicaragua (2001-2). |
| SEEP Network, through AIMS Project of USAID |
To pay IDEAS coordinator to be the Associate
Editor and to write parts of the AIMS-SEEP Manual. The work
involved gathering information from impact implementations that
the Team and others had done, using the AIMS-SEEP tools.
It incorporated learnings from the trainings Team members had
conducted in Asia, Africa and Latin America (1999 & 2001). |
| Fund for Southern Communities, Atlanta, GA |
To provide support for Team members to carry
out work that was not covered by funds provided by clients.
Paid expenses for an El Salvadoran to go to Uganda to learn
client assessment (2002-3). |
| SEEP Network, with funds from the AIMS Project of USAID. |
To support three issues of our Spanish language
bulletin, MicroEval (one in 2001 and two in 2002). |
| NOVIB of the Netherlands through ALPIMED, the MFI Associations
of El Salvador |
For support for five issues of our Spanish
newsletter, MicroEval (two in 2002 and three in 2003) and to
start a web page. Both in Spanish for Latin America. For 4th
Qt. 2002- 3rd Qt. 2003. |
| Client Impact Working Group of SEEP Network, using funds from
Imp-Act Project, with funds that originated from the Ford Foundation |
To partially support five team members to
prepare and train at the August 2002 national workshop on impact
evaluation, which educated 39 participants.
To also provide for a second workshop in mid 2003 to teach the
same MFIs additional tools (2002 and 2003). |
| NOVIB of the Netherlands through ASOMIF, the MFI Association
of Nicaragua |
To provide additional partial support for two workshops in
the series in Nicaragua on impact evaluation and client research
(2002-3). |
| Bancker-Williams Foundation of Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
To support work in building the capacity of young women in Central America to be better trainers and technical assistance providers to MFIs and organizations in their own and neighboring countries. IDEAS has used the funds for trainings, internships, and practical on-the-job mentoring. The Foundation has provided three annual grants to IDEAS between 2003-2005. |
| Community Foundation of Metropolitan Atlanta |
To support the work of capacity building with younger professional women by the IDEAS offices in Northern Central America (based in El Salvador), Southern Central America (based in Nicaragua), and the Philippines (based in Luzon) during 2005-2006. |
| Xerox Federal Credit Union in California and the Fund for Southern Communities in Georgia. |
To support the feasibility study of whether a Latino Community Development Credit Union could be developed, given the over 300% increase in Spanish speaking population in the state of Georgia during the last ten years. |
| Software Company in Michigan
of New Hampshire, USA. |
To support the work of our Office for International Programs based in the state |