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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.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, Association Amis des Enfants Australia, Association Amis des Enfants de l’ile de la Gonâve, capillary philanthropy, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, disaster management, disaster prevention, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, international aid, international development, philanthropy, relief and recovery, social enterprise 1 Comment

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 7 Comments

January 18th, 2012 - 7:45 pm § in Good Practice

The Village Changemakers

Plain Ink is a social enterprise that wants to “fuel a better story” in the developing world. Featuring its latest comic book on sanitation in India, “The Village Changemakers.” [...]

Tags: Afghanistan, aid effectiveness, aid workers, Clare Mulvany, community ownership, community participation, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, GOOD, grassroots organizations, India, international aid, international development, philanthropy, Plain Ink, sanitation, social enterprise, The Village Changemakers, water, watsan No Comments

January 17th, 2012 - 11:45 am § in Guest Bloggers

The elephant hasn’t left the room: Racism, power & international aid

“I want to be able to have an open conversation with grantees that allows me to be who I am. That is the only way I know how to use my power and privilege to support others.” A guest post by Sasha Rabsey of The HOW Fund[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, philanthropy, privilege, racism, racism and international aid, racism and philanthropy, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship 9 Comments

January 16th, 2012 - 11:53 am § in Reflection & Rumination

Poverty here, poverty there

How do our perceptions of the poor in our own country influence how we think about the poor in the rest of the world? My reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.[...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, aid workers, Barbara Ehrenreich, C-SPAN, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, Cornel West, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grantmakers, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Jeffrey Sachs, Jr., Majora Carter, Michael Moore, organizational development, PBS, philanthropy, racism and development, Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity, Roger A. Clay, social enterprise, Suze Orman, Tavis Smiley, Vicki Escarra 4 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

December 15th, 2011 - 6:30 am § in Reflection & Rumination

The Year Ends. The Pendulum Swings.

2011 has been a “shake-up” year for those involved in “flipping the aid system” to put more local and national actors in the driver’s seat of development. How-matters.org is shutting down until January 15th to reflect and plan for 2012![...]

Tags: aid effectiveness, Arab Spring, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, Devex, donors, Fahamu, foreign aid, foreign assistance, grassroots grantmaking, grassroots organizations, international aid, international development, Kenya, NGOs, Occupy Movement, responsive grantmaking, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., small grants, social movements, The Chronicle on Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal No Comments

December 14th, 2011 - 8:34 am § in Reflection & Rumination

A tale of two realities

Only one of the Washington D.C. aid industry events I attended yesterday got us closer to fixing the problems that continue to plague and perplex us.[...]