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Introduction
This issue marks the last of our regularly scheduled editions of Mott Mosaic. The cover feature examines the efforts of the Bank Information Center (BIC) and other non-governmental organizations over the past two decades to reform large international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and to bring more openness and transparency to their decisionmaking processes and funding decisions.
Twenty years ago, these financial organizations functioned in an atmosphere of secrecy, providing little public information about their projects. Phrases such as “that’s propriatory information” were common. But not today. The World Bank operates public information centers, posts project information online and releases its reports in multiple languages.
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| Marilyn Stein LeFeber |
Many observers credit this increased transparency and accountability to the efforts of the BIC, a longtime Mott Foundation grantee that celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2008. Our feature focuses on the work of BIC, plus three other Mott grantees,
The Center for International Environmental Law,
Friends of the Earth and the
Environmental Defense Fund, all of which seek to reform the large institutional lenders.
Over the past seven years, we have published 21 issues of Mosaic. Through these years, we have featured the work of our grantees from our four grantmaking programs around the world.
At the same time, our communications and program staff members have worked to develop new ways to deliver both collateral and stand-alone content via our Web site, Mott.org. These efforts have contributed to the growth and sophistication of Mott.org, which has allowed us to be a philanthropic content leader in an increasingly powerful online world.
It is our intent to retain, if you will, the “Mosaic brand” in our online environment. We believe this brand represents a lively, thoughtful and in-depth exploration of the work of our grantees and the issues we care about as a philanthropic organization. In the coming months, we will roll out a variety of e-products and approaches to content delivery that we hope will establish the next generation of Mosaic in a more broadly available and more easily shared format.
We have appreciated your past readership and support. We invite you to continue to stay informed about our grantmaking and our grantees by visiting Mott.org. As always, we welcome your comments at info@mott.org.
Marilyn Stein LeFeber
Vice President-Communications