Nobody believed that writing a book together could happen, but forty community leaders produced 27 stories about their work in development and empowerment in just 4 hours. Independent consultant Lucia Nass shares her story from Myanmar.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘grantmaking’
April 15th, 2012 - 9:30 am § in Reflection & Rumination
Go deep or go wide?
Scaling up--it ain't easy. An explanation of the issues at hand.[...]
September 26th, 2011 - 10:30 am § in Good Practice
Oral Reporting with Grassroots Organizations—Here’s How!
Oral reporting is a way to decrease the reporting burden on local, grassroots organizations, while enabling grantees to “paint a fuller picture” of their work, accomplishments and challenges than the written word can often offer.[...]
February 24th, 2011 - 4:58 pm § in Good Practice
Would YOU fund this organization?
I received a report, exactly as it appears in this post, from a Zimbabwean organization. Only one question—if you were the grantmaker, would you fund them again? [...]
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.[...]
