We have well-established selection criteria that has been developed since our founding in 2011 and a project team that actively searches for valuable initiatives.

First, we intentionally seek out projects that are community based, are overlooked by others and have no easy access to external support. If we find they are capable of securing funds themselves, we move on and look for those that have yet to receive help.

Second, we make sure that the project is within our range of activities supported. While we have a broad focus, we do not support every initiative. Currently, our project scope includes education, healthcare, childcare, housing, economic and community development, emergency relief, and support for refugees and migrants.

Third and finally, we conduct a thorough due diligence process with our dedicated project team. This ensures that the project is conducting their activities in an ethical and professional manner. However, it also builds a strong relationship between our organisation and our projects and partners. Because of this relationship, we are able to learn and understand what the needs of the community truly are, and understand how we can best help.

Poor and vulnerable communities face more than one kind of challenge. A village may have a quality primary school, but no clinic. Another community may have a school and a clinic, but economic constraints may force children to forego education for basic employment.

We cannot have a one-sized approach to alleviating the impacts of poverty if we truly want to respond to diverse and ever-changing needs.

Our highly dedicated and motivated project team conducts a rigorous due diligence process in order to understand the quality and full needs of a project.

While the project is on-going, our project team then conducts regular monitoring and evaluation, and keeps in regular communication with each project.

Yes, definitely! This is the basic principle of our organisation. We only support projects if we are convinced that they will improve the situation of the beneficiaries. We make sure that our support is needed and that it will be put to use effectively. If we would not be sure that we can make a difference then we would not support that project.

If you are sponsoring a specific project or projects, we will keep you informed through informal emails, social media and website posts, quarterly newsletters and official reporting.

If you are a donor, we will communicate with you via social media, quarterly newsletters, our website and informal emails.

If you have any questions about your project, you can always contact us and we will do our best to answer you timely and in full.

We appreciate your interest in supporting our projects. While it is possible to have your contribution directed to a specific project, we kindly ask that you contribute unrestricted funding.

Unrestricted donations are very important: By not restricting your contribution for a specific project, you enable us to allocate our resources more efficiently and where the needs are greatest. You also empower us to find and involve sponsors who fund entire projects.

Our ability to operate and conduct the due diligence, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building and reporting also depends on the generous contributions of our donors.

Not only CAN you visit, but we welcome it!

We love to share our work and meet those who support us.

If you sponsor or co-sponsor a project, then you are welcome to join our team on a visit to the projects. However, many projects work with vulnerable children and adults. In these cases, visitors may not be appropriate. This consideration will be done on a case by case basis and will always prioritise the safety and wellbeing of those we support.

For sponsors, 92,5% of your contribution goes directly to the project, while 7,5% goes to project-related administrative costs.

General donations play a unique role in Philanthropy Connections. These contributions are used for our operational costs. While not explicitly earmarked for a single project, the full orientation of our resources is directed towards the maintenance, improvement, management and discovery of projects, as well as the basic requirements to maintain an international nonprofit organisation.

Our ability to operate, and conduct the due diligence, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building and reporting depends on the generous contributions of our donors.

Our ability to properly investigate and provide flexible support to projects in urgent need also depends on these unrestricted donations.

Philanthropy Connections has been founded with the strongest determination to ensure that available funds are used in the most efficient way to improve the situation of people in need. The efforts we have taken to keep our overhead costs as low as possible in order to achieve that, form a guiding principle in our work and internal decision-making processes.

With the same resolve we are committed to the transparency of our financial reporting, which shows in full where every euro, baht and dollar goes.

We have tax deductible status in:

the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg and the United States.

For detailed information please see Tax Information.

We appreciate any interest in supporting our work. While we do accept in-kind donations, we are careful to ensure that the gifts represent a real need to a community we support, and can be effectively coordinated to be delivered in an efficient and cost-effective way.

If you have any questions or ideas about how to contribute in this way, please contact us.

We have had many wonderful volunteers over the years who have contributed to PCF in so many ways.

However, most volunteer work, meaning in-country or with the projects, has become more and more difficult to support.

Foreigners are only allowed to volunteer here when they come on a non-immigrant O visa and with a work permit. This involves a lot of paperwork, time and resources for us and only succeeds if we get approval from the relevant authorities. This only makes sense if the volunteer indeed has ‘special’ skills we need and can commit for at least six months, but preferably a year.

Otherwise we do welcome volunteers to work remotely on specific projects. Currently we have volunteers working on brand redesign, video editing work and data analytics.

The most effective way to help our organisation is by supporting us financially. However, we have many supporters who have helped in many ways. If you have any ideas, please contact us.

We support long-term programs and short-term projects. This requires us to commit to things for many years at a time, while also focusing on building sustainability and self-sufficiency into the projects we support.

This requires us to find a balance between getting involved in quality, long-term projects and having stable donations that allow us to continue this long-term funding, while also seeking out the new projects that would otherwise remain invisible.