Tides Center
For Support Of The Africa Grantmakers' Affinity Group
-
Amount$20,000
-
Program
-
Date Awarded11/15/2010
-
Term12 Months
-
Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group (AGAG), a project of the Tides Center, is a membership organization of philanthropic funders active in Africa. Since 2001, AGAG has served an important and unique niche where funders supporting development efforts in Africa participate as part of a learning community to improve the field of grantmaking in Africa. AGAG maps funding trends with the goal of promoting increased and more effective philanthropic funding in Africa, and organizes networking activities for funders to share information and ideas, build professional relationships, explore collaborations, and address practical issues of common concern. Funds would allow AGAG to continue to play this valuable role. Due to budgetary constraints, this is a tie-off grant to AGAG.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.tides.org
Address
1012 Torney Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94129, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Mosaic initiative
This grant supports Mosaic, a project of the Tides Center, in its efforts to strengthen the infrastructure of the environmental community by investing in communications, leadership development, tools and training, field knowledge, and relationship-building between organizations and communities. (Substrategy: Build the Conditions for Enduring Conservation)
for the Open Contracting Partnership project
The Open Contracting Partnership engages governments and nongovernmental groups to establish and implement new global standards for transparency and broad participation in public contracting. The new standards will require that governments and companies disclose more contracts, that the information in the contracts is easily accessible and presented in user-friendly formats, and that citizens have opportunities to monitor contract award and execution processes. In addition to encouraging others to create and adopt these new norms, with this grant the Partnership would support country-level application of the principles and would facilitate learning among countries to ensure greater effectiveness in the use of public resources.
