Kevin Star, Director of the Munlago foundation makes a case for more unrestricted funding to NGOs

..."Or perhaps some donors give restricted money to have closer engagement with the doers. Let’s face it, they’re the coolest people out there, and I certainly treasure my relationships with those who are doing great work to make the world a better place. But if you really want a genuine relationship, show some faith and put some skin in the game with unrestricted money. You’ll find that people are much less guarded and much more open to your ideas and ongoing input. The current fashion of donors calling themselves “partners” is more than a little silly—we’re funders and it’s a fundamentally asymmetric power dynamic. When you change the equation to unrestricted money for real impact, however, the dynamic can start to shift: donors give doers the dough they need to create impact; doers give donors the impact they need to justify their existence. It starts to look less like feudalism and more like symbiosis."

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