Den Haag — The Hague Two huge foundations supported by both Dutch citizens and the Dutch government are Oxfam NOVIB and HIVOS. NOVIB is the activist arm of these developmental enterprises and allied with Oxfam more than a dozen years ago as part of a worldwide federation of a number of bodies under the Oxfam …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Ur-O.Me-O.
Amsterdam I want to stress that I have learned more about Europe and the European sensibility than just how the trains work (and might work better without me!). Not everyone (I hope!) will have to take a crazy criss-cross trip across some of these small countries, but I would like to share a couple of …
Euro-Fundraising
Stuttgart I have found it fascinating to understand the fundraising mechanisms in The Netherlands and Germany, at least at the rudimentary level that I can follow. The operations that are growing larger, regardless of the question of government or corporate partnerships and funds are mining institutional brands and long settled systems. Brut fur die Welt …