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AP Article
USAID: Destined to Disappoint
How private funding helped one NGO survive the USAID cuts
100

These types of funds can be comprised of mandatory contributions, depending on the organization

What are core funds?

100

A confusing, but more formal way to say someone has "guts"

What is "intestinal fortitude?"

100

The Trump administration pulled this percentage of foreign aid contracts around the world.

What is 90%?

100

The main criticism between the US government and USAID

What is Misalignment 

100

What NGOs must do to secure private investors

What is compete

200

More control over an organizations actions is a reason why donors add conditions to their donations, also referred to as this

What is ear-marking?

200

A way to cut jobs without firing anyone

What is attrition?

200

Roughly this many USAID contracts were terminated by the Trump administration.

What is 10,000?

200

Increased aid means this to the government

What is Increased Development 

200
Something the public sector has more of than private sectors

What is funding

300

The primary source of funding for WIPO

What are fees?

300

It's like putting a budget through a salami-slicer

What is sequestration?

300

The administration eliminated about this amount in total foreign aid funding.

What is 60 billion?

300

One criticism of USAID inhibiting its success

What is No Autonomy

300

Something private investors often want from NGOs

What is return on investment

400

This country ranked second in total contributions to UNICEF in 2019, behind only the United States

What is Germany?

400

Transparency is great, unless you're at these two former Gates' employers

What are the DoD and CIA?

400

According to the United Nations, cuts to U.S. aid will hurt efforts to combat these three global problems.

What are terrorism, human trafficking, and drug trafficking?

400

USAID is over -  _____, according to the article

What is Bureaucratized 

400

A benefit that private investors provide for an NGO

What is Passion/Commitment

500

In 2019, the United States donated approximately $100 million dollars in core funding to UNICEF while donating approximately this in non-core funding, a considerably larger amount

What is $600 million?

500

Gates was forced to make sweeping budget cuts at the Department of Defense to make room for this massive spending package

What is the (American) Recovery (and Reinvestment) Act?

500

The Associated Press described many of the affected nations as these types of countries, highly reliant on U.S. aid.

What are fragile countries?

500

The article refers to USAID as the _____________ (two words)

What is Dumping Ground 

500

In 2022, public funding from the G20 raised this much for UNEP

What is $100 billion dollars