Do grassroots organizations in poor countries have an image problem?
What if the talents of 19 public relations and corporate communications Masters students were directed at helping grassroots organizations getting better at selling themselves?
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Building a Fire: Thinking twice about how we look at organizational capacity assessment
What if nascent grassroots organizations needed something totally different to assess their organizational capacity?
Is the aid architecture crushing young aid workers?
If you could write a letter that would help thousands of other aid workers, what would you say?
Using storytelling to discover why aid projects so often fail
“Maybe the aid world’s obsession with ‘happy stories’ is precisely what drives us away from learning what we must before we can succeed.” A guest post by Marc Maxson on the GlobalGiving’s Storytelling Project’s new online tools.
“The Samaritans”: Why are some laughing? Some offended?
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.
#HowMatters
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.
The development “players”
Who makes up the development landscape? Sharing my taxonomy of the fundamental, old-school, and new-school players on the scene.
Causing ripples through the layers of DC aid bureaucracy
My recent article on farmers’ feedback on Feed the Future in Haiti, appearing in Oxfam America’s latest CloseUp Magazine.
What could unionizing mean for the aid industry?
Tweets from SEIU Local 500’s Nonprofit Summit today in Washington DC.
Unfathomable Journey
On Reuters investigative report, The Child Exchange: Inside America’s underground market for adopted children.
No math or gun-slinging required
Education innovators like TED Prize Winner Dr. Sugata Mitra will knock your socks off in this film by Good Magazine entitled “Future Learning.”
Listening to “beneficiaries” and the more measurement bandwagon
There’s a lot of value in big data, and it may be tempting to place local leaders’ expertise within the big-data paradigm. However, we need to be cognizant about the origins of our obsession with results.
We want development…but at what cost?
A trailer from the film “We Want Development (but at what cost?)”, about the development of a port in Lamu, Kenya. (c) Thirsty Fish 2012