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On Think Tanks' met up with Chuka Onyekwena at the 5th Africa Think Tank Conference held in April in Accra. Chuka, an On Think Tanks Fellow, has developed a framework to...
Fundraising remains a challenge for most organisations, and the need to explore innovative ways to remain sustainable and competitive is imperative. In this digital age,...
Fundraising remains a challenge for most organisations, and the need to explore innovative ways to remain sustainable and competitive is imperative. In this digital age, organisations are...
FUSADES, a think tank based in El Salvador, has been exploring crowdfunding as an approach to raise new resources for their work. They have partnered with HIPGive, the first and only bilingual crowdfunding...
Building on a successful first experience in 2017, the second edition of the Winterschool for Thinktankers took place in Geneva in February 2018. The programme is the result of a partnership...
Fundraising remains a challenge for most organisations, and the need to explore innovative ways to remain sustainable and competitive is increasingly becoming imperative. This webinar offers...
Funding is a key concern for think tanks. It affects organisational sustainability, the way people work and the type of research that can be conducted. In the long-term,...
Over the years, the OTT team has become very familiar with the many dilemmas that think tanks face. I remember a lengthy conversation about independence with research institutes in...
The importance of think tank credibility cannot be overemphasised. Credibility conveys the character of an organisation and defines its persona. It impacts on respect...
When asked, think tanks all over the world identify funding as one of their biggest concerns. In some parts of the developing world, think tanks have been witness to the...
In 2017, OTT published a set of documents under the OTT Best Practice Series. Each document dealt with a different topic and produced a best practice statement, based on the experiences of...
Simply put, the full cost of a research project rightfully includes a share of the overall non–project specific costs needed to operate the organization as a...