Thursday, December 8, 2011

Why this blog?

I created this blog to share my thoughts about the need to implement transparency practices for non-profits, from the big Foundations (like the Gates Foundation) to their grantees and sub-grantees.
My experience during the last four years in the field of tobacco control in Africa has been one of extreme secrecy and refusal to divulge key information about how the programs are managed.
Creating a transparency scorecard could be a way to document in a more precise way what the actors are hiding and shame them for doing so by positioning them on a scorecard where their performance would be for everybody to appreciate.

How transparent is the Gates Foundation?

An interesting article published by Caroline Preston in this blog of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.