What is your “right role”?
We each need a lot of strategy, discernment, and accompaniment to figure out what is our “right role” when it comes to global development and solidarity, and how our privileges fit into that equation.
We each need a lot of strategy, discernment, and accompaniment to figure out what is our “right role” when it comes to global development and solidarity, and how our privileges fit into that equation.
Last semester’s reflections from teaching “Storytelling and Communicating for Change” in the University of Vermont Masters of Leadership for Sustainability program.
Rather than fighting poverty or injustice, we have to fight just to save our souls from the burdens of organizational life.
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
Here’s 12 ideas for criteria civil society organizations could use to rate their funders.
Having experience as both a grant seeker and grant maker, it’s funders who I look to for bravery first. Here’s 7 ways funders can be more courageous.
What is so “risky” about placing relatively small amounts of money in the hands of people addressing challenges in their own communities?
People in the Global North are being re-awakened to their rebel selves. Now can we apply this in the global development sector?
Do “we” need to help “them” understand the political and economic systems that have marginalized them?
What will it take to dismantle the power structures that perpetuate inequality and bigotry in aid, philanthropy, social enterprise, and impact investing? (Plus, a sampling of resources/conversations on solidarity.)
What is the transformation that occurs when people discover the strength of their voice and have space, or the opportunity to use that voice, and engage with those in power?
What does it feel like to be a citizen on the receiving end of international aid? An analogy to try to help international do-gooders understand.