Shoestring Survival Strategies

Canadian NGOs use ingenuity to make it past CIDA's funding freeze

Published April 6, 2005

HELP International, a Saskatchewan-based environmental NGO, has a policy against relying heavily on public dollars to bankroll "shoestring" overseas activities.

Now, that strategy of diversifying funding sources or making projects self-financing might rescue a sustainable development initiative in Kenya. Executive Director Rodney Sidloski describes his endeavour as a "mini industrial...

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