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April 14th, 2012 - 1:15 pm § in Uncategorized

Bigger than Kony: Livetweeting an Open Discussion

My storify-ed livetweets from panel discussion on foreign policy & humanitarian aid efforts in Uganda & the Congo in response to the international media attention garnered by Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign. With Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo, Milton Allimadi of Black Star News, a[...]

Tags: advocacy, awareness raising, Black Star News, Busboys and Poets, China, Congo, donors, DRC, Free South Africa movement, Friends of the Congo, Great Lakes region, humanitarian aid, international aid, International Criminal Court, international NGOs, Invisible Children, Juba peace talks, Kagame, Kony2012, local civil society, Maurice Carney, militarization, Milton Allimadi, Museveni, Nicole Lee, Northern Uganda, Operation Lightning Thunder, privilege, racism, Somalia, South Sudan, StopKony, TransAfrica Forum, Uganda No Comments

January 25th, 2012 - 6:50 pm § in Uncategorized

A Common Expat Encounter

Sharing a selection from the December 2011 issue of The Sun Magazine that may be familiar to folks who have lived and traveled abroad, "First Empty Your Cup” by Andrew Boyd.[...]

Tags: aid workers, Andrew Boyd, expats, international volunteers, Japan, The Sun Magazine, voluntourism 2 Comments

January 15th, 2012 - 7:45 am § in Uncategorized

Are you how-matters.org’s first intern?

How-matters.org is looking for an intern to help strengthen its social media presence and to support the founder in charting the site’s evolution and growth. Who do you know?[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, internship, philanthropy, social enterprise, social media 4 Comments

January 3rd, 2012 - 11:00 am § in Uncategorized

12 to watch in 2012

How-matters.org’s top 12 people, trends, sites, and organizations to watch in 2012![...]

Tags: African Diaspora, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Akili Dada, capacity building, CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, hiiDunia, international aid, international development, M&E, Mathare Valley blog, monitoring and evaluation, organizational development, philanthropy, Re-Action, social enterprise, Solome Lemma, Sparks Microgrants, The Broker Online, The Listening Project, USAID, USAID FORWARD, whydev.org, WiserEarth.org 9 Comments

September 27th, 2011 - 6:16 am § in Uncategorized

PBS Documentary on Aid Shines a Light (and wins an Emmy!)

Good Fortune is an Emmy-winning PBS documentary that is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.[...]

Tags: Africa, aid, aid effectiveness, community development, community participation, development, foreign aid, Good Fortune, international aid, international assistance, international development, Kenya, News & Documentary Emmy, PBS, poverty, U.N., United Nations No Comments

September 7th, 2011 - 1:28 pm § in Uncategorized

Are you reading this?

Then you should take this survey. In other words, it’s for people who read aid blogs. We, the aid bloggers, want to know more about you![...]

Tags: aid blogs, aid effectiveness, blogging, blogs, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, SmartAid 3 Comments

August 17th, 2011 - 2:11 pm § in Uncategorized

Because some days you just need some Marley…

...if you happen to feel as if you've "been trodding on the winepress much too long."[...]

Tags: Babylon System, Bob Marley, community organizing, community ownership, development, international aid No Comments

August 15th, 2011 - 9:47 am § in Uncategorized

The Arts of Survival

Featuring the Museum of International Folk Art’s exhibit, “The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Disaster”—a great reminder of the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of tragedy.[...]

Tags: Aid to Artisans, artists, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, disaster, donors, emergency, folk art, foreign aid, foreign assistance, GlobalGiving, grassroots organizations, Haiti, human resiliency, Indonesia, international aid, international development, Museum of International Folk Art, New Mexico, Pakistan, Santa Fe 2 Comments

August 5th, 2011 - 6:40 am § in Uncategorized

Behind the Barricades, There Is Happiness

Richard Moore, founder of Children in Crossfire in Derry, Ireland, discusses the figurative blind spots for many people as they become involved in aid work. Richard, who was literally blinded by a British soldier at the age of 10, also discusses the value of community and the power of vulnerability.[...]

Tags: AFRI, aid workers, blindness, Children in Crossfire, civil rights, community building, compassion, Concern, conflict, Derry, development education, disability rights, education, Ethiopia, foreign aid, foreign assistance, global poverty, health, human rights, humanitarian organizations, international aid, Ireland, Malawi, NGOs, Northern Ireland, peace and reconciliation, peacebuilding, Richard Moore, Tanzania, the Dalai Lama, The Gambia, vulnerability 1 Comment

July 26th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in Poetry Pause, Uncategorized

Delights of the Green Isle

Highlights from my conversations with the great people I was able to connect with in Ireland – Alessandra Pigni, Richard Moore, Hans Zomer and Clare Mulvany – and thoughts on the opening of the Derry Peace Bridge.[...]