Esto es para los perturbadores
Esto es para quienes les preocupa que los llamen arrogantes o ignorantes o rebeldes, pero aun así continúan.
Tag: capacity building
Two ideas to retire
Time to retire not just “empowerment” and “capacity building,” but the mindset and orientation that created them and are often still working underneath them.
What now? Beyond the #OxfamScandal
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
Five years in the making
There is a growing number of small NGOs and foundations specializing in offering direct funding to grassroots leaders. And 20+ of them have come together to write a book!
A new kind of donor: 4 things they do differently
Donors stuck in the old ways of moving money around don’t offer useful capital to new and innovative organizations that don’t fit the mold. Here’s four things a new kind of aid donor does better.
Actually, it was my capacity that needed to be built
A reflection on the skills I needed to be effective in my job.
3 ideas for making locally-led aid responses a reality
A guest post by Steven Zyck of ODI about how to make locally-led humanitarian responses a reality.
Is there a better way for indigenous and international NGOs to work together?
Social Impact Incubator brings together creative collaborators in Burundi.
Grandpa, the Marshall Plan, and me
How has US foreign assistance funding changed over the last sixty years?
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?
Building a Fire: An organizational capacity self-assessment tool for grassroots organizations
The Building a Fire tool provides grassroots groups an alternative to most organizational capacity assessment tools that primarily focus on the formality of institutional systems.
White, Western and Waist Deep
“You can’t build relationships on a pie chart or a graph.” Guest post by David Peck of SoChange
“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.
Wanted: Films that illustrate how aid works
The Social Impact Media Awards 2014 is an international documentary and video competition that champions the stories of grassroots change-makers.