Resource Mobilization

Facilitating resource mobilization within and for Asia

We work to ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector in Asia and the Pacific by:

  • Supporting research on NGO mobilization strategies
  • Promoting further development of indigenous philanthropy
  • Facilitating networking among NGOs, corporations, governments and donors
  • Encouraging greater corporate social involvement

Our efforts are focused on different levels: individual giving, corporate giving, giving by high net worth individuals and families, and giving by migrant communities.

Individual giving. We sponsored Investing in Ourselves: Giving and Fund Raising in Asia, a regional research project on individual giving patterns in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. Through this, we were able to provide some benchmarks for understanding the nature and magnitude of individual giving in these countries.

The study also contained over a hundred replicable examples of successful fund raising by Asian NGOs in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand.

We hope to update this study through The Measure of Giving, a survey to benchmark giving across 15-17 societies in the region in the period of three years. The Measure of Giving project is guided by our Individual Giving Subcommittee, which is composed of a subgroup of our Board Members.

Corporate giving. We also support activities that facilitate networking among corporations and their foundations to encourage greater social responsibility in Asia and the Pacific. Examples of these are:

  • An exchange for mutual learning between Indonesian and Philippine corporate social responsibility practitioners, through the Rio Tinto Foundation and the Philippine Business for Social Progress.
  • A conference on Corporate Citizenship in Asia (Hong Kong, 1995), co-organized with the US Council of Foundations, to encourage greater corporate social involvement in Asia.
  • The Japan Center for International Exchange’s Conference on Corporate-NGO Partnerships (Tokyo, 1999), for which we provided some technical assistance.
  • The annual Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (Manila, 2002; Bangkok, 2003; Kuala Lumpur, 2004; and Jakarta, 2005), co-organized with the Asian Institute of Management’s RVR Center for Corporate Responsibility.

In 2006, we also established a program specifically for family-based giving. We will be having our first Family Philanthropy Workshop in Singapore in May 2007.

 

 

What We Do: Policy Advocacy l Awareness Raising l Resource Mobilization l Capacity Building

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