Friday’s Poetic Pause: “Easter Exultet” by James Broughton
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Easter Exultet,” a poem by James Broughton
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Easter Exultet,” a poem by James Broughton
Tanya Cothran, Executive Administrator at Spirit in Action, writes about how an idea, some information sharing, and a little bit of money can go a long way at the local level when people are behind an initiative.
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Let it Flow,” a poem by Mike Klassen of Engineers Without Borders Canada
Sharing my conversation with Saaed Wame, founder and director of local organization NACC in Malawi, on valuing community contributions, the challenges of child protection, and how numbers cannot portray the true value of his organization’s work.
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Whatever Gives Pleasure,” a poem by Rumi
Ruiari Nolan of Peace Direct offers the following guest post, sharing their experience of trying to determine what is important in relationships with grassroots organisations, and how they’re trying to measure performance in this area.
Nora Lester Murad of the Dalia Association, Palestine’s first and only community foundation, shares their progress in a current advocacy campaign to reform international aid in Palestine and poses questions to how-matters.org readers.
Does the food received at a village feast versus a distribution of flag-emblazoned sacks nourish differently? My contribution to the Blog Action Day 2011.
How-matters.org’s 111th post! Celebrating some results of the past year and sharing next steps!
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! What do haiku and aid have to do with each other? Sharing three aid and poetry contests!
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Utopia,” a poem by Wislawa Szymborska
Are we overlooking the capacity of local NGOs? My guest post on The Broker Online argues that rather than being the lowest common denominator of international assistance, local indigenous organizations should be regarded as the fundamental unit of effective development aid.
When compared to each layer of bureaucracy taking its cut in larger organizations before funds ever reach the ground, donors can make more direct investments in girls via grassroots organizations.
Grassroots organizations, as powerful actors that are finding and reaching marginalized girls and unlocking their potential, are reaching a demographic of extremely vulnerable and hard-to-reach girls through homegrown, targeted, and context-specific strategies.