Sentence examples for foreign funder from inspiring English sources

Supporting civil society is a potential area where local philanthropy would change the dynamic between governments and CSOs who, when funded by foreign funder,s are often perceived as driving a foreign agenda.

Saudi Arabia is the "foremost" foreign funder of Islamist extremism in the U.K., according to new report released by a British think tank on Wednesday.

The article strongly suggested that some of Washington's most influential think tanks may have strayed from advocating policy positions that are based on independent research, instead venturing into partisan lobbying on behalf of their foreign funders, and in doing so possibly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

"When we started our campaigns in 2007, we did not have any foreign funders.

These are worrying times for civil society around the world as governments seek to demonise NGOs and their foreign funders.

There have been opportunistic connections between the wilder Chechens and foreign funders, but this conflict is rooted deep in local grievances.

In Russia, a sustained government campaign to demonise NGOs and their foreign funders threatens to put the country's civil society in a fatal stranglehold.

But in both cases their activities are to a greater or lesser extent determined by the priorities of their foreign funders.

That is true both because no one in his or her right mind would prefer national organisations to be aid-dependent when they could raise funds from their own societies, but also because many governments justify the increasing attacks on "civil society space" on the grounds that civil society organisations (CSOs) are pawns of foreign funders.

21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at a presumed campaign by unnamed nongovernmental organizations to destabilize his government at the behest of their presumed foreign funders.

On one side, the research community has evolved within the silo of academia, with a primary influence seen in the strong vertical linkages with foreign funders.