Border NGOs’ Perspective on Corporate/Maquiladora Giving

Due to the relatively small sample size of NGO response, our survey yielded a 50-50 outcome among NGOs who claimed to “have” or “have not” received corporate funding. In other words, 50% of the NGOs that we surveyed said they had received some type of support from U.S. corporations or maquiladoras and the other 50% claimed that they had not received any type of support, be it financial, in-kind, volunteer, or matching gifts. While this may not be a good representation of the level corporate support that is occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border region, analyzing the responses received from each group, such as factors impeding NGOs from receiving any type of support, as well as the type of support that was received by others, reveals an interesting story.