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January 24th, 2012 - 10:45 am § in Reflection & Rumination

Titillating TED Talks for Development Folks II

Too many TED talks. Too little time. Here’s some I’ve come across over the last few months to share with how-matters.org readers. [...]

Tags: Africa, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Chip Conley, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, donors, Eli Pariser, empathy, Engineers Without Borders, Facebook, foreign aid, foreign assistance, GDP, grassroots organizations, gross domestic product, international aid, international development, Israel-Palestine conflict, Joan Halifax, Julia Bacha, Kathryn Schulz, Leslie Dodson, Mark Zuckerberg, othering, Palestine, peacebuilding, philanthropy, Sam Richards, social enterprise, TED, TED talks, the Other No Comments

January 23rd, 2012 - 7:00 am § in Guest Bloggers

Has aid lost its humanity?

“Development work had become more about systems and structures than the actual lived realities of people,” argues Mette Müller, founder of Best Self Experience. Can important concepts like 'empathy', 'understanding' and 'compassion' enter the way we deliver aid?[...]

Tags: accountability, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Best Self Experience, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, donors, empathy, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, intuitive healing, Kenya, Mette Müller, organizational development, philanthropy, social change, social enterprise, Tanzania 9 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

March 30th, 2011 - 5:38 pm § in Reflection & Rumination, Uncategorized

If I had only known…

Advice for people embarking on an aid career or any international do-gooder endeavor. [...]

Tags: aid industry, aid workers, charity, compassion, cultural humility, cynicism, dignity, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, graduate school, international aid, international development, Karen Armstrong, NGOs, racism, service 17 Comments

February 21st, 2011 - 1:40 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Titillating TED Talks for Development Folks

Sharing three recent TED Talks that encouraged me to reflect on how I personally and professionally stay connected to “what is living” at a local level that is authentic and that has potential to unleash social change. [...]

Tags: Acumen Fund, aid workers, community participation, compassion, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, Jacqueline Novogratz, Krista Tippett, Noreena Hertz, On Being 7 Comments

October 24th, 2010 - 6:35 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Pity, Pictures and Poverty

Is fundraising using ‘pitiful’ images justified if charitable organizations use the money effectively? Duncan McNicholl, founder of the "Perspectives of Poverty" project, responds on how-matters.org.[...]

Tags: aid workers, AidWatch, Australian Broadcasting Company, Boston Globe, charity, compassion, Darfur, dehumanizing images, dependency, Duncan McNicholl, engineering, Engineers Without Borders Canada, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Free Range Studios, fundraising, humanity, integrity, international aid, international development, Maclean’s Magazine, Malawi, National Public Radio, New York Post, photography, pity, poverty, poverty porn, power dynamics, racism, refugees, solidarity, Sudan, Water Wellness, YouTopia 9 Comments

August 13th, 2010 - 3:08 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

Our Most Important Job

“The kids in Africa were soooo amazing and so darn cute.” And so, the smoke poured out of my ears before I could even have my morning coffee.[...]

Tags: aid workers, AIDS orphans, community participation, compassion, dependency, do no harm, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, J.B. MacKinnon, local leadership, orphanage, poverty, power dynamics, racism, South Africa, stoves, Uganda, voluntourism, Zimbabwe 8 Comments

August 5th, 2010 - 8:43 pm § in Good Practice, Reflection & Rumination

Development Aid 2.0

My personal list of raw ideas that helps me contrast what I consider to be “old school development” and the long overdue emergence of alternatives to "business as usual” in foreign assistance.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, alternatives, Andrew Natios, bureaucracy, capacity building, Community Development Resource Association, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, crowdsourcing, Development Aid 2.0, disaster relief, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, organizational development, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Hawken, Peace Corps, power dynamics 8 Comments

July 30th, 2010 - 11:52 pm § in Reflection & Rumination

More on why ‘How Matters’

I believe that our role as “outsiders,” whether we are working for a multilateral donor in Nairobi or having wanderlust dreams during our unfulfilling job in Ohio, must be about getting community leaders the resources that they need to address their own priorities.[...]

Tags: academia, accountability, aid effectiveness, aid reform, aid workers, alternatives, community participation, community-based organizations, compassion, Dennis Whittle, dependency, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, GlobalGiving, governance, grassroots organizations, impact, international aid, international development, multilateral donor, philanthropy, power dynamics, racism, social innovation, U.N., United Nations 3 Comments

July 28th, 2010 - 2:34 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

A Heartbreaker

Yes, the paradigm of development can break our hearts. But everyday, we have a choice. Will we slump into the system? Or will we challenge the parts of it that prevent us from feeling and exhibiting compassion?[...]

Tags: academia, aid workers, AIDS, community participation, compassion, dependency, economic opportunity, education, foreign aid, foreign assistance, funding mechanisms, good governance, grassroots organizations, HIV, India, international aid, international development, Karen Armstrong, Kenya, power dynamics, South Africa, U.N., United Nations 4 Comments

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