PENDULUM PROJECT DOES:
• Center on needs
• Make grants in rural and not serviced urban areas
• Make responses visible and advocate for their support
• Support existing initiatives
• Work through village community planning authority / council
• Work with and through communities
• Work with and through foreign non-profits
• Share information widely
• Network: $ will be set aside within grants to foster this among projects
• Share information through the internet: Knowledge management
• Site visits, that lead to other site visits
• Listen to community-defined priorities through participatory or service approach
• Recount stories of personal and community responses to challenges of AIDS and its impact
• Make small grants a) seed money, b) investment in social capital, c) innovation
• Maintain flexible criteria for partnering
• Empower and encourage
• Maintain a long-term commitment and foster relationships between donors and front-line communities
• Focus on education and community schools
• Broker linkages for technical assistance, notably in proposal writingPENDULUM

PROJECT DOES NOT:
• Direct projects from abroad, or dictate priorities
• Fund branding of its own projects / vehicles / buildings
• Foster and help set up new projects, but rather extensions and scaling up of existing projects
• Advocate for or fund orphanages or hospitals except in that they are community-managed and prioritized as the only short-term solution
• Focus on prevention (education/condoms/vaccine)
• Teach proposal writing or give direct technical support
• Provide training and capacity building
• Focus on treatment or medical responses