May, 24, 2012

Double Whammy of Recession, Shrinking Government Funds Hitting NGOs Hard

Civil society groups, struggling to survive, are being forced to rethink how they do business.

Published April 8, 2009

Caught between the global economic crisis and major decreases in government funding, many of Canada's internationally-focused civil society groups are rethinking how they operate even as they struggle to stay alive.

"The current system in which we finance organizations is broken and has been broken for over 10 years," says Carlo Dade, executive director of the Canadian Foundation for the Americas.

"It's...

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