How to create a smart project budget for think tanks
As any project manager will tell you, a successful budget is one of the most crucial elements of any project. Your budget can bring about the overall success, or...
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Samar Verma, Senior Program Specialist for the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) in South Asia
Samar Verma is a Senior Program Specialist of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) for the South Asia Region. As such, he is based at the International Development Research...
Why do we need to analyse our context to design a research agenda?
In our previous article we introduced the seven principles for policy relevant research identified in existing literature and through practice. The first one referred to...
Think tanks and the challenges of funding in Brazil
Think tanks, in the most general definition of the label - relatively independent and non-governmental organisations, focused on producing expertise about public policy...
“Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy”: a new approach for supporting think tanks
Free-riding among funders is more common than you'd expect. It can have a negative effect on the willingness of potential donors to engage with a think tank in the long...
It takes a village to raise funds: the role of management, trustees and donors in fundraising
Even organisations with a strong and well-functioning fundraising unit need further involvement to succeed in raising funds. This post considers how different actors...
Communications and fundraising: a close relationship
Fundraising and communications processes are closely linked. Most of the time, we do both things at the same time: we communicate as we raise funds; we raise funds as...
The New Philanthropists: Rohini Nilekani, Founder and Chairperson of Arghyam
You only get what you measure. But what you may be able to measure is not what you treasure Rohini Nilejani is the founding chairperson of Arghyam, former journalist and...
Creating an enabling environment for philanthropy through tax incentives
For all the talk about how the context affects think tanks we know little about philanthropy in developing countries and its role in supporting think tanks. A recent study...
Gilles Yabi from West Africa Citizen Think Tank
Gilles Yabi, founder of West Africa Citizen Think Talk, talks about his personal and professional motivations for setting up this new think tank. The interview also discusses the main...
Domestic think tank funding: what can foreign donors do?
Domestic funding is the only sustainable option for think tanks in developing countries. But getting there, moving away from a dependence on foreign funding, will take...
What happens when foreign donors leave (and they will)? Domestic funders wanted
Foreign funding for think tanks has raised a few eyebrows lately. There is an increasing concern that this involves meddling with domestic politics. In developing...
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