Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global CompassionAmateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid by launching projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders investigates the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale. |
Contents
Illustrations | 1 |
TABLES | 21 |
Origin Stories | 27 |
Who What Where? The Projects of Grassroots | 47 |
Destination Regions | 51 |
Roles for US Supporters | 62 |
Partner Organizations | 65 |
Status Designations of Aid Recipients | 69 |
Frequencies of Codes for Rationales Recipients and Roles for US Supporters by Aid Model | 97 |
Resources Relationships and Accountability | 116 |
Grassroots INGOs | 141 |
Roles | 157 |
Note on Methods | 193 |
Codes Used in Content Analysis | 201 |
Grassroots International NGOs | 205 |
Notes | 211 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Activate Tanzania aid organizations aid recipients aid-receiving countries amateurs American Community Survey American volunteers beneficiaries Borders brokers build chapter charitable church codes context cultural describe developing countries development aid discourse Dispositions Skills donations donors downward accountability emerge emergency medicine Erasto Foundation founders fundraising funds Global South grassroots INGO leaders Grassroots INGO websites grassroots international NGOs groups Haiti human rights immigrants Indego Africa individuals International Development interviews IRS records Kenya's Kenya’s Tomorrow Kigali Korten Leann microcredit Ministry Muyinga Nairobi narratives Natalie offer official development assistance operate organiza partners partnership pastors Peace Corps personal networks personal relationships political poverty professional programs rationales relief religion religious congregations rely role roots INGOs Rwanda Ultrasound Initiative Services Skills shared Skills and Dispositions story Swidler and Watkins tions transformation Ugandan United University Press USAID village Wellsprings of Hope women World