Editor’s Note: In June 2014, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society hosted its inaugural Junior Scholars Forum. The following article covers a not-yet-published research paper that was presented at the forum. To learn more about the paper, please email its author, Alison Schnable. In 1990, there were about 900 US-founded nonprofit organizations that provided international development aid. Since then, more than 10,000 such non-governmental organizations have entered the…

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