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March 15th, 2012 - 12:45 pm § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Focus on the HOW

"It is the HOW that creates impact." A new video from Daniela Papi of PEPY Tours. [...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, Cambodia, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, Daniela Papi, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, international volunteers, organizational development, PEPY Tours, philanthropy, social enterprise, volunteerism No Comments

March 12th, 2012 - 5:44 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Searching for Closure: A Kony2012 Postscript

@InnovateAfrica & I host a live chat to reflect more the issues that came up from our posts on #StopKony. [...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Hope North, InnovateAfrica, international aid, international development, Invisible Children, Kony2012, Northern Uganda, philanthropy, social enterprise, StopKony, Uganda 7 Comments

March 8th, 2012 - 9:33 am § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

Reaching Girls at the Grassroots – A Sound Investment

In celebration of International Women's Day! 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 strat[...]

Tags: adolescent girls, adolescent girls programs, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, International Women's Day, Invisible Children, IWD, Kony2012, marginalized girls, StopKony, The Girl Effect No Comments

March 4th, 2012 - 10:55 am § in Good Practice, Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

How to Work in Someone Else’s Country (A Book Review)

To fumble is an inevitable part of working cross-culturally. To be humble is not, thus the need for this book. (A review of Ruth Stark’s, How to Work in Someone Else’s Country.)[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, How to Work in Someone Else’s Country, international aid, international consultants, international development, international health, international workers 7 Comments

February 26th, 2012 - 9:02 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Logframes….errrgh!

The predictable, linear, rational progression of activities is what can make a sound logframe clear and elegant. But this is also what can render it useless in the context of providing relief and fighting poverty and injustice. [...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, community participation, donors, evaluation, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grant making, international aid, international development, logframe approach, logframes, Logical Framework, M&E, monitoring, NASA, organizational learning, philanthropy, social enterprise, U.S. military, USAID 14 Comments

February 23rd, 2012 - 1:25 pm § in Good Practice

How to build strong relationships with grassroots organizations, Part 3 of 3

Ultimately, people just need more recognition for the good work that they do. (Part 3 of 3)[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, organizational development, philanthropy, social enterprise 6 Comments

February 22nd, 2012 - 3:00 pm § in Good Practice

How to build strong relationships with grassroots organizations, Part 2 of 3

Under-resourced and under-recognized local organizations face immense challenges on the ground. Yet we as outsiders most often choose to express frustration or impatience if an organization does not appear to be responding to our expectations. (Part 2 of 3)[...]

February 21st, 2012 - 9:02 pm § in Good Practice

How to build strong relationships with grassroots organizations, Part 1 of 3

In order to build authentic relationships with grassroots organizations, these qualities, attitudes and abilities will really make a difference. (Part 1 of 3)[...]

February 14th, 2012 - 9:33 am § in Reflection & Rumination

On Love & Justice: A Valentine’s Day Reflection

We don’t talk about our hearts nearly enough in international aid. But this Valentine’s Day seems like a good time to do so. Sharing an excerpt from "The Love That Does Justice: Spiritual Activism in Dialogue With Social Science,” edited By Michael A. Edwards & Stephen G. Post[...]

Tags: Abraham Heschel, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Bishop Desmond Tutu, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, Cornel West, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Frank LaMere, international aid, international development, justice, love, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Michael A. Edwards, organizational development, philanthropy, self-awareness, social enterprise, Stephen G. Post, Valentine's Day No Comments

January 30th, 2012 - 6:00 am § in Guest Bloggers

Capillary Philanthropy: Businesses, local NGOs, and the future of aid

Orietta L’Abbate, CEO of Association Amis des Enfants Australia Inc., shares her proposal for the future of aid, a “one-to-one” support system whereby businesses select a “sister” local NGO to help on a 5-10 year plan.[...]