Private Voluntary Organizations Betray Their Trust

Publication Date: March 1988

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Mark Huber

Research Area: Banking and finance; International relations

Keywords: International organizations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Increasingly, U.S. private voluntary organizations are neither private nor voluntary. However, if PVOs intend to maintain their independence and rekindle the enthusiasm of the private sector for their programs, serious arategies designed to reduce PVO federal funding must be found. AID'S new Administrator, Alan Woods, has the opportunity to do this. Six vacancies exist on AID'S Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. Woods should appoint individuals to these positions who are committed to putting the "private" back in PVO.