How Grant Makers Can Better See What’s Coming
Published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Bess Rothenberg
On April 22, 2016, one day before the end of the legislative session, the Mexican Congress presented an anticorruption measure that allowed for voluntary declarations of conflicts of interest by public officials.
For civil-society organizations that had long been pushing for mandatory declarations, it was a serious setback. The timing of the bill’s passage — over Easter break — seemed intended to catch activists off-guard. As the news hit, a colleague shook her head and said, “We didn’t see this coming.”
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