Southern Africa Information Exchange: Working Paper #33

Listening to the Stakeholders
The Impact of U.S. Private Foundation Funding In Southern Africa

This report illustrates some of the ways major U.S. private funders of development programs in southern Africa tackle certain aspects of international philanthropy. The study solicited examples of development programs that were "success stories" - or on the way to becoming so. It looks, through the eyes of a range of stakeholders, at five different development programs funded by five U.S. private foundations.

This report was researched by Ann McKinstry Micou, under a grant from the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector Research Fund (NSRF), with additional support from The Rockefeller Foundation.

IIE is grateful to the many donors that have sponsored the work of the SAIE over the past eleven years, including the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which were its first funders, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, which helped to sustain it in recent years, and the Aspen Institute's NSRF and The Rockefeller Foundation, which made this final report, in many ways a culmination of the SAIE's experience and past efforts.

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Southern Africa Information Exchange (SAIE) Working Paper #33 (Adobe PDF File)