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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

November 11th, 2011 - 9:15 am § in Poetry Pause

Friday’s Poetic Pause: “The Place Where We Are Right” by Yehuda Amichai

How-matters.org’s Friday feature! Sharing “The Place Where We Are Right,” a poem by Yehuda Amichai[...]

Tags: aid work, aid workers, foreign aid, foreign assistance, international aid, international development, Israel, OPT, Palestine, peace and reconciliation, peacebuilding, poetry, Yehuda Amichai 1 Comment

October 18th, 2011 - 2:50 am § in Guest Bloggers

Can allies help Palestinians to reform aid? How?

Nora Lester Murad of the Dalia Association, Palestine’s first and only community foundation, shares their progress in a current advocacy campaign to reform international aid in Palestine and poses questions to how-matters.org readers.[...]

Tags: advocacy, advocacy campaigns, aid effectiveness, aid reform, AIDA, Busan, capacity building, community ownership, community participation, community-based organizations, conditional funding, donors, foreign aid, foreign assistance, Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, grassroots activists, grassroots organizations, international aid, international aid system, international development, Ma’an Development Center, OPT, organizational development, Palestine, Palestinian NGOs, restricted funding, USAID 1 Comment

October 10th, 2010 - 8:26 pm § in Guest Bloggers, Reflection & Rumination

Changing the system…from the ground up

"‘The system’ whereby foreign donors give handouts, and not sustainable initiatives that are drawn from the needs of the communities, is a problem.” ~R.F.M. community activist, Zimbabwe[...]