When a windstorm blows, roots are strained and grass wilts. Most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are caught between uplifting gusts of funding and the anchoring tug of their own ideals and those of the people they serve.
Few NGOs in poor countries rely on local member contributions. When foreign funding comes, do they lose their ties to the marginalized communities they serve, causing their vision of social change to wither and die out? ...