Introduction -- Origin stories -- Who, what, where? the projects of grassroots international NGOs -- Amateurs without borders : a role for everyday citizens in development aid -- Provide and transform : grassroots INGOs' models of aid -- Resources, relationships, and accountability -- Seen it with their own eyes : grassroots INGOs' discourse -- Networks, frames, modes of action : roles for religion -- Conclusion : possibilities and perils of amateur aid -- Note on methods -- Appendix 1 : codes used in content analysis -- Appendix 2 : grassroots international NGOs in website sample.
Summary:
"Amateurs without Borders examines the rise of new actors in the international development world: volunteer-driven grassroots international nongovernmental organizations. These small aid organizations, now ten thousand strong, sidestep the world of professionalized development aid. Instead, NGOs launch projects built around personal relationships and the skills of volunteers. This book draws on fieldwork in the United States and Africa, web data, and IRS records to offer the first large-scale systematic study of these groups. Amateurs without Borders shows the aspirations and limits of personal compassion on a global scale"-- Provided by publisher.
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