Investing in Ourselves: Giving and Fund Raising in Asia provides NGOs and fund raising practitioners with a deeper knowledge of the individual gift-giving market as well as fund raising principles and strategies employed in seven Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand.

Whether you’re a small non-profit or a large national or international organization, you will benefit from this regional overview of fund raising experiences in all countries, and from the findings of a comparative survey of philanthropic giving in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

This publication of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium (APPC), is supported by the Asian Development Bank, The Asia Foundation, Nippon Foundation and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Volumes on giving and fund raising from seven Asian countries and a module on financial management are available.

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Investing in Ourselves—Giving and Fund Raising in Asia had four principal objectives:

• to build awareness of successful methods of fundraising employed by Asian NGOs and to identify innovative best practices;
• to increase understanding of the need for transparency and accountability among Asian NGOs if they are to be successful in fundraising;
• to increase the capacity of Asian NGOs to mobilize resources; and
• to establish benchmarks against which to measure the nature and scope of philanthropic giving in selected countries.

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Preface:

Investing in Ourselves—Giving and Fund Raising in Asia had its origin in the International Conference on Supporting the Nonprofit Sector in Asia, sponsored by the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium (APPC) in January 1998.

The central theme of the conference was the need to explore ways in which governments, international financial institutions, philanthropic foundations, corporations, and others could contribute to the continued growth and financial sustainability of nonprofit organizations in Asia during a period of economic decline. Although planned long before, the conference took place at the height of the Asian economic crisis, which began in Thailand in July 1997 and had just a few weeks earlier, in December 1997, brought the Korean economy to the point of collapse.

The economic crisis represented a setback to what had been until then more than a decade of steady growth of philanthropic foundations and other forms of organized philanthropy in Asia. In the short term, the economic crisis ensured that foreign funding would continue to be essential to the economic support of NGOs, but as I stated in my opening remarks at the conference:

From the perspective of long-term resource mobilization, Asian and other nonprofit organizations will ultimately depend for their survival on the quality of the relationships they are able to establish with public opinion in their countries and with their own governments, and only secondarily and for the short-term on their relationships with international public and private donor agencies.

In other words, the fundamental challenge to Asian NGOs was, and remains, to develop local sources of sustained funding.

The Asian Development Bank was represented at the conference by Gordon Wilkinson, who was at the time responsible for the ADB’s work with NGOs. Wilkinson took the initiative to approach Jaime Faustino, who was then APPC’s Executive Officer (and, concurrently, The Asia Foundation’s Assistant Representative in the Philippines), to express ADB’s interest in discussing how ADB and APPC might cooperate to assist NGOs in their quest for financial sustainability. ...

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