By Dien Yuen, Give2Asia
Dien Yuen is currently attending the Council on Foundations' Family Foundations conference in San Diego. While she is there, she will be posting articles for the Council's blog site Re:Philanthropy. Here is the lead to her second post, and and link to read the whole article at:http://www.cofinteract.org/rephilanthropy/?p=1626
The families I’ve spoken to at the conference support diverse projects overseas: from children and women to environmental issues. But many jump from project to project without clear long-term goals—for example, supporting initiatives around clean water in Bangladesh to micro-finance in Uganda. The financial support ranges from a $50 gift to buy a stove to a $100,000 grant for endowing a school.
A majority of the families do support U.S. based 501(c)(3) organizations that are doing work overseas. Some are using intermediaries to implement particular projects while others are running their own programs in specific countries. For instance, one family hired two local leaders to implement a micro-loan project in Haiti. But many families are just lurking on the periphery—still collecting information and unclear where to start.
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