It’s about time
How does commodified, scarcity-driven ideas of time inhibit our ability to learn and respond to a changing world?
Tag: responsive grantmaking
Why I wrote about “smart risks” in philanthropy and why I would frame it differently now
What is so “risky” about placing relatively small amounts of money in the hands of people addressing challenges in their own communities?
Does aid need a 12-step program?
Step 1: We admit we are powerless over a project-based mentality–that when we considered the changing world, our frameworks and tools as they had come to define us have become obsolete.
Getting money to the ground, directly
Sharing a list of small NGOs and foundations specializing in direct funding to grassroots leaders, locally-led organizations, and small, often “informal” movements.
“Create” nothing: A new social good mantra
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.
The Year Ends. The Pendulum Swings.
2011 has been a “shake-up” year for those involved in “flipping the aid system” to put more local and national actors in the driver’s seat of development. How-matters.org is shutting down until January 15th to reflect and plan for 2012!