International Fund a 'waste of money'
Howard Lake | 11 April 2006 | News
The US government’s allocation of funds to the International Fund for Ireland, which has supported a huge range of community and economic initiatives in Ireland, is a waste of money according to a citizens’ watchdog group. This year’s allocation to the IFI is $13.5 million.
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) listed a number of IFI funded projects it considered wasteful including Newcastle YMCA, Creggan Community Cafe, and Donegal Town Waterbus. It heaped its biggest criticism on IFI support for the World Toilet Summit in Belfast which it described as ‘flushing away’money.
The IFI recently changed its strategy to focus more on reconciliation issues.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.