Report of the Forum on Philanthropy and Fundraising
Unlike the UK or US, Ireland has a weak philanthropic ecosystem and has no indigenous monetary support for Open Data, meaning there is little opportunity for organising public awareness initiatives.
So, instead, another aspect of Active Citizen’s campaign is to reach out beyond Ireland to international NGOs and other governments.
“Report of the Forum on Philanthropy and Fundraising” (May 2012) has been supported by Bono’s ‘ONE foundation’, better known as ‘ONE Campaign’, which is a champion of open data and aid transparency but in the UK:
“There are only about 30 active grant-making foundations in Ireland compared to more than 8,000 in the UK. With 0.7 charitable foundations per 100,000 inhabitants, the number of Irish foundations lags far behind the European average of about 20. If Ireland was to match the average European figure there would be 857 grant-making foundations [in Ireland].”
