What could unionizing mean for the aid industry?
Tweets from SEIU Local 500’s Nonprofit Summit today in Washington DC.
Tweets from SEIU Local 500’s Nonprofit Summit today in Washington DC.
On Reuters investigative report, The Child Exchange: Inside America’s underground market for adopted children.
Education innovators like TED Prize Winner Dr. Sugata Mitra will knock your socks off in this film by Good Magazine entitled “Future Learning.”
There’s a lot of value in big data, and it may be tempting to place local leaders’ expertise within the big-data paradigm. However, we need to be cognizant about the origins of our obsession with results.
A trailer from the film “We Want Development (but at what cost?)”, about the development of a port in Lamu, Kenya. (c) Thirsty Fish 2012
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Bewilderment” by Rumi.
An excerpt for international do-gooders from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last sermon, “The Drum Major Instinct.”
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, and Nicole C. Lee of TransAfrica Forum.
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.
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?
How-matters.org’s top 12 people, trends, sites, and organizations to watch in 2012!
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.