Funding Partners of IDEAS

OUR CLIENTS ARE OUR MAJOR SUPPORTERS

Since its beginning, IDEAS has followed a self-reliant approach of earning the vast majority of its funding through fees. Thus, unlike other non-profit organizations, IDEAS has never been dependent on grants. During 2004, 70% of the total expenses were paid by fees for our services. During 2005, 80% of the institutional expenses were paidby institutions to which IDEASprovided consulting, technical assistance, and training. Please refer to the chart entitled “Sample Of Different Types Of Clients To Whom Services Have Been Provided” to see the variety of types of clients and a list of the specific clients who have contributed support to IDEAS over the last 20 years of international work.

DONATIONS STILL PROVIDE AN AVERAGE OF 25% OF OUR BUDGET

IDEAS has received recent funding from a variety of sources for its programs. The following is a list of recent donations and their purposes:

 

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

MAKE A TAX DEDUCTIBE DONATION TO THE WORK OF IDEAS

U.S. tax-deductible donations are very welcome. An increasing number of individuals have been supporting our work. Write the check to IDEAS and mail to Carter Garber, IDEAS, 125 East Benson St., Decatur, GA 30030 USA.

 

 
   
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