Is the aid architecture crushing young aid workers?
If you could write a letter that would help thousands of other aid workers, what would you say?
If you could write a letter that would help thousands of other aid workers, what would you say?
Al Jazeera’s The Stream discusses the real-life inspiration for a new Kenyan TV comedy mocking aid workers and examines NGO culture around the world.
You won’t find yogurt or a grizzly bear here. When we talk about #HowMatters, it’s about how well-intentioned people often fall short of changing the lives of the people they want to help.
On one of the social good industry’s most killer assumptions: That in the developing world, nothing exists, i.e. that there’s a blank slate upon which our interventions can be built.
The Social Impact Media Awards 2014 is an international documentary and video competition that champions the stories of grassroots change-makers.
Tweets from SEIU Local 500’s Nonprofit Summit today in Washington DC.
What does it feel like to be a citizen on the receiving end of international aid? An analogy to try to help international do-gooders understand.
Weh Yeoh of whydev.org argues that everything that we do in development is about selling a message. But how do we convince people when a message goes against the grain of what they already believe?
Being honest about one’s blind spots and weaknesses is tough medicine to administer to oneself. That’s why it’s so important that do-gooders consciously surround themselves with people who offer differing perspectives
I just came from Haiti just last week. Here’s my reflections on Nora Schenkel’s piece in the New York Times, “I Came to Haiti to Do Good…”
“Oh wait, the rules don’t work for us? Guess we have to stand up for ourselves and change those rules. But this will not happen by letting power go unchecked.”
These young people were so hungry, after only a week among development professionals in Washington DC, for an open and real conversation about development work!
How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “Bewilderment” by Rumi.
On International Women’s Day, have we as women explored and understood and unleashed the depth of our power in what is still a very male-defined industry?