Abstract This article examines the Egyptian government’s evolving policy toward Egypt’s NGO sector and its effects on organizations’ efforts to support democratic political reform. The January 25, 2011 uprisings that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak seemed to present an opportunity for...

Abstract This article examines how the Egyptian government produced a legal, regulatory, and operational environment designed to “divide and throttle” the country’s NGO sector. We identify a two-pronged government strategy toward the NGO sector – namely, flooding the field and...

In the 1990s, the practice of high-engagement philanthropy emerged as a topic of debate amongst the United States ‘foundation community’. Since then, it has become a common method of grantmaking among many funders. Foundations that adopt this grantmaking style – one in which they work in...