Organizations seeking funding from the CZI Community Fund can apply before December 1. They'll be evaluated on the basis of alignment with the fund's mission, impact potential, leadership, collaboration with other organizations, community engagement and fiscal responsibility to ensure funds aren't wasted on overhead.
Obama's foreign policy has become a manifestation of limited resources and the need to prioritize engagements and fiscal disbursements, prompting the U.S. to hesitate to act unilaterally and fueling an unwillingness to assume responsibility in countries that ultimately are not important enough to warrant it.
The Foundation also crossed over into volunteer engagement through its fiscal sponsorship of allforgood.org, which replicated many of the functions of SocialActions and my own organization, VolunteerMatch, while struggling to find a revenue model.
Both accept the idea that centre-left politics should embrace the principles of fiscal responsibility, free trade and international engagement.
The test reveals the higher level of regional institutional potential in one of the regions, and highlights the critical function of regional network engagement and broader enabling fiscal, administrative and democratic preconditions in this region.
He is especially enlightening about the Third Way movement, through which Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair shed the paralyzing dogmas of the old left in order to take up policies of forceful engagement abroad along with fiscal responsibility at home.
Consciously modeling his political program on Bill Clinton's, Mr. Blair blended fiscal conservatism, cautious social reform and international engagement, including a constructive attitude toward Britain's role in the European Union.
Lurching from one fiscal cliff to another and the lack of constructive engagement by the nation's leaders seems to have left all three negotiating experts shaking their heads.
These include meeting a set of minimum eligibility criteria on fiscal transparency, access to information, public disclosure about public officials and engagement with citizens.
