Donor Landscape

Information in English, donors (different languages)

Dear all,
We are sharing the attached donor landscape focused on disaster relief. This report is based on information collected from a range of online sources, including the Foundation Center, Funds for NGOs, the FSMBO Donor Database and Global Corps.

Additionally, the researcher also accessed Google sites relating to the increase in disasters, the type of funding bodies and issues with donor concerns. All quotations in this document were taken directly from the respective donor’s website.

To access and download donor landscape please follow this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oebML2aVyWlrbIGlZ1UowtZN_NL6IuiTDSNe...
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Donors have been organized under the following topics:

• MULTILATERAL AGENCIES
• GOVERNMENTS
• FOUNDATIONS, TRUSTS & FUNDS
• CORPORATE SECTOR AFFILIATES

Overview of Donor Trends: Incidents, Organizations and Approaches
Disasters are undoubtedly increasing, globally-speaking. Insurance and asset corporation Allianz states: “The number and severity of natural catastrophes is constantly on the rise: in the last thirty years, the number of people affected by these catastrophes across the globe has increased by around 250 million to around 1.5 billion. Humans are partly to blame for this sustained trend: in addition to climate change, global population growth and increasing urbanization are resulting in an ever-greater number of victims and increasing economic damage.”
https://www.allianz.com/v_1339681252000/media/responsibility/documents/p...

Funding for disaster relief is a peripheral aspect of a range of organizations and a core part of a significant number, particularly since the massive Tibetan earthquake of 2014 which impacted “more than 6.6 million people in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh “ http://www.cidi.org/disaster-responses/nepal/#.VYTTctJViko. The magnitude of this disaster appears to have encouraged foundations and trusts to expand their funding capacities.

While foundations, from which the largest number of funds come, rather than multi-lateral agencies or governments, mostly exist apart from disaster relief needs, some came into existence to serve the immediate and direct requirements of a tragic situation, such as with the  U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which created the Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI) “in 1988, one month after Hurricane Gilbert—a Category 5 storm—made landfall, affecting 10 countries” http://www.cidi.org/about-cidi/#.VYNwXtJViko.

With so much anxiety about potential misuse of funds by the public, most of these donor websites spend a certain percentage of their site trying to allay concerns and assure donors that their money will go directly to disaster relief and that they as foundations or agencies are always held accountable for expenditures. Some pages, like the one on the CIDI site, exist solely to address concerns such as “how can I be sure that I can trust these agencies?” or “What is the appropriate range of overhead these relief agencies should be charging?” http://www.cidi.org/how-disaster-relief-works/faqs/#.VYTVU9JViko

We hope you find this information useful.
Sincerely,
The WIEGO Team