5 pulse-checks before clicking ‘publish’ on #globaldev communications
How to balance the responsibility of international development communications in an age of “instant.”
How to balance the responsibility of international development communications in an age of “instant.”
What if nascent grassroots organizations needed something totally different to assess their organizational capacity?
Guest blogger Akhila Kolisetty on the “NGOization” of grassroots social movements and the way forward.
Guest blogger Koissaba B.R. Ole writes that while researchers grapple with theories and frameworks to explain the causes of communities’ challenges, development practitioners are right at the midst of them.
Al Jazeera’s The Stream discusses the real-life inspiration for a new Kenyan TV comedy mocking aid workers and examines NGO culture around the world.
Guest blogger Barongo ba Kafuuzi Ateenyi argues that aid’s failures should not be blamed on the initiators of the projects—the foreigners—but the very home country systems that compromise its people.
You won’t find yogurt or a grizzly bear here. When we talk about #HowMatters, it’s about how well-intentioned people often fall short of changing the lives of the people they want to help.
Isaac Roy Kyeyune of FIND Partners International in Uganda shares his best advice on how organization can get through resource-constrained times.
Who makes up the development landscape? Sharing my taxonomy of the fundamental, old-school, and new-school players on the scene.
On one of the social good industry’s most killer assumptions: That in the developing world, nothing exists, i.e. that there’s a blank slate upon which our interventions can be built.
Tweets from SEIU Local 500’s Nonprofit Summit today in Washington DC.
When I left my small town in Nebraska to be an aid worker, I found this: the common good still exists elsewhere in the world. This idea can help shift the cognitive frameworks with which we talk about international assistance.
Weh Yeoh of whydev.org argues that everything that we do in development is about selling a message. But how do we convince people when a message goes against the grain of what they already believe?
8 sets of questions on our organizations’ ability to be responsive to feedback