Back home
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
Will you help me mark the 10th anniversary of how-matters.org?
Time to retire not just “empowerment” and “capacity building,” but the mindset and orientation that created them and are often still working underneath them.
Why we need to focus now on addressing power imbalances between the Global South and the Global North in the international aid and philanthropy sector
How do our roles change if our first responsibility is to do justice to the vast and vital efforts of visionary leaders in the Global South?
Sharing a list of small NGOs and foundations specializing in direct funding to grassroots leaders, locally-led organizations, and small, often “informal” movements.
A guest post by Steven Zyck of ODI about how to make locally-led humanitarian responses a reality.
For NGOs considering how to ‘reframe their message’ in their communications and fundraising, they can include their local partners in developing countries in this proces. Invest in partners’ branding and communications. Let them tell their own story. As much it is ‘our message,’ even more so it is theirs. ~Judith Madigan of BrandOutLoud
Do donor policies and practices force their so-called “partners” to be unethical?
Exploring the state of employment and civil society once the international community and humanitarian aid are gone.
What if nascent grassroots organizations needed something totally different to assess their organizational capacity?
The Building a Fire tool provides grassroots groups an alternative to most organizational capacity assessment tools that primarily focus on the formality of institutional systems.
The processes of decision-making within local relationships and power dynamics are often the make-or-break factor in development projects. Are the people served invested in the outcomes of your program(s)? And most importantly, how can you know?
BrandOutLoud argues that a strong profile and professional marketing communications will enable local aid organizations to reach out on their own, create new partnerships, and diversify their funding.