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World Vision and sports-related product donations

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Over several years, World Vision U.S. has developed relationships with both Major League Baseball and the National Football League.  From those relationships, World Vision programs have benefited from their donations of time, as well as funding and products. Those resources are allocated based on program needs in both the United States and in the developing world. More than 90 percent of our staff members come from the countries where they work, and, in many cases, reside in the communities where they serve. They are uniquely qualified to understand the needs of the children and families World Vision serves because of long-term relationships. Their understanding of a community’s needs and their ability to communicate those needs enable support offices, such as...
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GIK and development programming

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In our ongoing series on Gifts-in-kind (GIK), today’s post covers how GIK resource fits into the broader work of community development programming. Specifically we’ll look at: * Uses of GIK, including as match for grants * Standards for managing GIK * Evaluations of projects with direct provision of goods Uses of GIK World Vision operates in nearly 100 countries with 1,600 development programs and 1,200 sector projects that integrate education, health, economic development, advocacy, microfinance, agriculture, and water and sanitation. Our programs go through intensive assessments and planning, beginning with a country macro-assessment and strategy and continuing with local area assessments, a comprehensive design document, baseline survey, and regular audits and evaluations. These...
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Basic overview of World Vision’s strategy and structure and our U.S. GIK operations

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This post was written in response to Response to GIK discussion, and 100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl The intent of this post is to provide a basic overview of World Vision’s strategy and structure and our U.S. GIK operations. Over the following week we will address the following key issues: * The financial costs and benefits of sending GIK overseas. * The use of GIK in development programming. * Evaluations of projects with direct provision of goods, including GIK. * Standards for GIK implementation and accounting, including fair market value calculations * The influence of overhead rate calculations on organizational decisions. ...
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