Alison Smith is the Executive Director of InsideNGO. Alison has been helping NGO CFO’s, grants managers, HR Directors and other operations staff network, share resources, and discuss good practices since starting The Association of PVO Financial Managers and The Personnel Co-op (now merged to become InsideNGO). Alison helped found the organization while working as CFO and Director of HR at PACT. Alison has been instrumental in fostering industry-wide benchmarking resources such as the Annual Salary and Benefits Survey, an Indirect Cost Survey, and a bi-annual Expat Salary and Allowances Survey as well as helping organizations comply with the rules they must follow when receiving funding from USAID. She served as Outreach Director, CFO, and Acting Executive Director at Oxfam-America. Alison started her career in the field of higher education at the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Russian Research Center at Harvard. Alison has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Working Groups are a central part of the way InterAction supports and aids its members. Working Groups are first and foremost a place for member agencies to share information that is important to them in several ways:
- by providing a way for member organizations to share information about field-based issues, concerns, and topics;
- by serving as a place for members to receive training and to share best practices with each other; and
- by offering a space for members to develop new products and materials on a given topic.
Working Groups are member driven and supported by InterAction staff (with the exception of a few non-staffed working groups). Members identify an interest, issue area, or need around which they feel their collective voices will clarify or strengthen responses. Depending on the number of member organizations interested, a meeting or consultation is planned to explore the topic and allow members to share their issues and concerns. Such consultations or exploratory meetings may lead to the formation of an on-going Working Group.
InterAction's current working groups are described below. For more information on a specific working group, contact the group's staff contact.
| Group | Description | Staff Contact |
|---|---|---|
| HPPC--SYRIA |
this is a working for Syria |
Abby Bruell |
| SIT--Transparency |
SIT--ransparency |
Laia Grino |
| Shelter and Settlements Working Group |
InterAction Shelter And Settlements Working Group |
Mohamed Hilmi |
| Allen-test-group |
this is a test group |
Allen Abtahi |
| InterAction Business Council |
Promoting and leveraging corporate and NGO partnerships for sustainable and inclusive international development and economic growth. |
Luisa Córdoba |
| HPPC--Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Working Group |
HPPC--Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Working Group |
Abby Bruell |
| SIT--Aid Effectiveness-Members |
SIT--Aid Effectiveness-Members |
Kimberly Darter |
| HPPC--Horn of Africa |
HPPC--Horn of Africa |
Lucy de los Reyes |