Counterpart International wins Nonprofit PR award for Best Video and/or Podcast Program for a community-run tourism program in rural Guatemala.

On March 1, 2012 AKF USA and the Mott Foundation hosted an event with 45 philanthro

Learn how the "Give a Goat" Coffee House is empowering families to provide for themselves, and how the Church of Guatemala's micro-finance program is helping small businesses grow.

This report highlights three examples of Episcopal Relief & Development’s disaster response work from the past year, putting the organization’s activities in the context of different stages on the “disaster cycle.”  Episcopal Relief & Development supports local Church and ecumenical partners as they assist the most vulnerable in

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… that together, InterAction members and U.S. corporations manage an estimated $19.4 billion in international development program funds? Together, we represent more than half of the total U.S. private investment in developing countries.*

A recent survey of InterAction member CEOs, presidents and executive directors revealed:

The International Housing Coalition (IHC), a non-profit, education, advocacy and applied research organization officially welcomed Susan Corts Hill as its new president and CEO July 1, 2011.

InterAction News Release: Members of Congress and U.S. NGOs announce the need to integrate global development and environmental policies with the launch of InterAction's new policy paper titled "The Nature of Development," which calls for alignment of the two issues in order to improve the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy investments.

International Medical Corps is responding to the situation in Japan and tsunami-warning areas, following an 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan’s coast, triggering a tsunami that devastated northern parts of the country and put a tsunami warning in effect for much of the Pacific.

This week, InterAction staff and various member organizations traversed Capitol Hill to educate staffers on funding trends for the International Affairs Budget (150 Account) and to distribute valuable resources to members of Congress, particularly the freshmen representatives, that will aid their understanding of a range of foreign assistance issues that are likely to emerge in the 112th Congre

InterAction's 990 Form for 2009.

Save the Children's assessment of Pakistan six months after the flooding.

InterAction member Heifer International's one year progress report on work done in Haiti since the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

Article from NPR's website on a cash-for-work program in Haiti funded by InterAction member Catholic Relief Services after the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

Progress report by InterAction member Medical Teams International on their work in Haiti since the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

InterAction member IRD's report on activities they've completed in Haiti in the year since the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

A report released by InterAction member Oxfam on agricultural work to be done in Haiti since the January 12, 2010 earthquake.

InterAction member Catholic Relief Services' one-year report on their work since the earthquake on January 12, 2010, in Haiti.

One-year progress report by InterAction member Action Aid on their work in Haiti since the January 12, 2010, earthquake.

An article on AlertNet about InterAction member Oxfam's criticism of the recovery effort so far from the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti.

One year progress report from InterAction member United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) after the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti.

One year progress report from InterAction member the American Red Cross after the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti.

InterAction member Oxfam's one year progress report on Haiti since the January 12, 2010, earthquake. 

One year after Haiti earthquake, Habitat’s recovery program has benefited nearly 24,000 families through emergency, transitional and permanent housing solutions. Work continues toward serving 50,000 families over next five years.

This report offers international agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the media, the U.S. government, and the public an overview of the humanitarian and development assistance being provided to the people of Pakistan by InterAction member agencies.

Thank you Corinne for that wonderful introduction and thank you Karen Mulhauser, and to your entire team at the UN Association of the National Capital Area for hosting this important event. 

Andy Rice leaves all of us an important legacy. His commitment to the role youth play in development and efforts to shape the U.S. development community remain with us today.  

This report chronicles the activities of seven InterAction member agencies in Sri Lanka. This member activity report describes the relief and development efforts of InterAction member agencies in Sri Lanka from December 2006 through June 2010.

Six months after a disastrous earthquake struck Haiti, CRWRC remains hard at work responding to the many needs that this disaster caused.

4:53pm: A 7.0 earthquake hits Haiti. 17 minutes later International Medical Corps is preparing our Emergency Response Team. Within 5 hours, medical volunteers are deploying. 22 hours after the earthquake, we are saving lives on the ground in Port-au-Prince, working side-by-side with our Haitian medical counterparts.

Since January 12, WHI has launched an emergency response program that mobilizes its extraordinary capacity in the most severely affected areas focusing on health, psychosocial care, sensitization, potable water, sanitation, food, income-generating activities and workforce employment.

The IRC launched programs in Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake.

JDC, the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization, is proud to be using its expertise to bring ongoing relief to the people of Haiti in their time of need. As the process of recovery in Haiti begins, JDC is addressing the physical and psychological rehabilitation needs of those most devastated by the disaster.

Six months after the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake, life is slowly resuming for families in Haiti, but it is a new post-earthquake life of rebuilding communities and coming to terms with a new “normal.” The new normal includes some being able to return to homes that have been repaired. For others, it means having to find a new home - often with a relative or neighbor.

On an overcast and rainy May 25, CHF completed a payroll in Petit-Goave for 740 laborers in its ongoing cash-for-work program. Workers had spent the past two weeks demolishing crumbled buildings and removing rubble in support of the USAID-funded CLEARS program. At the payroll, CHF paid workers salaries totaling more than US$47,000, accounting for almost US$62 per person.

AMURT’s mission is to help improve the quality of life for the poor and disadvantaged people of the world, and to assist those affected by calamity and conflict. We believe that the best assistance is that which encourages and enables all people to develop themselves.

JUNE 2010 marks 6 months since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit the island nation of Haiti…While the recovery process has begun, devastation in Port-au- Prince, and many areas beyond, remains without precedent. As many as 3 million people were affected by the quake, 1 million left homeless, 300,000 injured, and over 220,000 killed.

Long before the crippling earthquake of January 12, 2010, Jesuit Refugee
Service had a grassroots presence in Haiti, providing humanitarian assistance
to displaced Haitians both in the town of Ouanaminthe on the northeastern
border with the Dominican Republic, and in the Dominican Republic itself. JRS

Our efforts in Haiti continue as we meet the current rehabilitation needs of the amputees through an amputee clinic being managed at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the Central Plateau by Hanger Orthopedics, Christian Medical Mission Board, and other founding members of the Haitian Amputee Coalition, including Physicians for Peace.

The humanitarian response to the earthquake in Haiti represents the most challenging and complex emergency effort Save the Children has ever undertaken. The country’s

January 12, 2010 was a day when the world turned its attention to Haiti. A powerful earthquake rocked the country's capital, Port au Prince, killing an estimated 230,000 people. More than 300,000 had been injured and over one million made homeless. It was the worst earthquake in the region in more than 200 years.

On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake struck Haiti causing the largest urban disaster in a developing country in decades. The American people responded with a generous outpouring of donations and a desire to help the Haitian people.

Information on joining the InterAction community - eligibility criteria, responsibilities of membership, dues information - and a membership application.  

Intended to ensure and strengthen public confidence in the integrity, quality, and effectiveness of member organizations and their programs, InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) were created when the overseas work of PVOs was dramatically increasing in scope and significance.

Although compliance with InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Standards is a self-regulatory process, it is an important mechanism for demonstrating the integrity and accountability of the NGO sector with donors, the public, and beneficiaries and also serves as a track record of members’ internal efforts to improve organizational accountability.

This is intended to be read with the PVO Standards promulgated by InterAction for its members; it provides elaboration on the intent and applications of the Standards on input from other relevant sources. The Standards are requirements for membership in InterAction; the Guidelines are recommendations from the Board, but are not requirements for membership.

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This policy brief is part of a larger series in InterAction’s 2009 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book.

A brochure highlighting the work of InterAction's first 25 years. Visit http://www.interaction.org for the complete 2008 annual report.

Program for the December 2008 Conference on Non-Governmental Diplomacy

In this issue, we explore the role of NGOs in major development initiatives. From Presidential programs to global efforts, we will look at how NGOs have helped to achieve results in some areas and how we can be better engaged in others.

 The Position Statement on Demonstrating NGO Effectiveness provides a common foundation of principles and standards for the InterAction community. It was prepared by InterAction’s Working Group on Evaluation and Program Effectiveness and approved by the InterAction Board of Directors on September 20, 2005.