Policy-career recruitment and internships

Network for Effective Evidence-Based Development

Student network supporting entry into international-development policy careers.

Background

NEED advertises internships, connections and recruiting channels for students interested in international development. It says its funding is a Silicon Valley Community Foundation grant recommended by Coefficient Giving. The recommendation and the foundation grant are two roles in one disclosed funding arrangement.

Role in this network

NEED advertises internships, connections and recruiting channels for students interested in international development. It says its funding is a Silicon Valley Community Foundation grant recommended by Coefficient Giving. The recommendation and the foundation grant are two roles in one disclosed funding arrangement.

What the records show

From the investigation

How funded career programmes reach policy

NEED supports student routes into international-development careers. Its funding disclosure names a Silicon Valley Community Foundation grant recommended by Coefficient Giving. The map records the grantor and adviser separately: those are two roles in the same disclosed arrangement.

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Expert access has a history

Sanders to Meet with AI Leaders in California · The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation · Sanders Convenes Chinese and American Computer Scientists to Warn of Threat from AI · Our people

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Material gaps and explanatory limits

The professional path before Conjecture is only partly supported by accessible primary sources. BCW and full education dates need direct employer/university/profile evidence; no inference about any government or political party follows from study or research assistance. The exact dates and terms of Conjecture employment/advisory work, share ownership, compensation and any continuing decision authority are unknown.

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Membership and US tax-return seam — 8 September 2026

The new public record is ICMEC US's signed 2023 Form 990, recovered from the live US annual-financial index. It supplies a specific inter-entity transaction category and a tax-return characterization that need reconciliation. It does not reveal who joined the Australian company, what resolution took effect on 6 July 2023, or donor reserved rights. Those membership questions have reached a bounded public-record frontier.

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Further reading

How funded career programmes reach policy

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What the connections say

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