Rebuilding requires slowing down
“Institutions are not forever nor are organizations reliable in the way professionals have been prepared to believe.”
Tag: organizational development
Is it burnout, or is it organizational trauma? A vital question
“Distinguishing between organizational lifecycle transitions, organizational crises, and organizational trauma is important.”
What chaos asks of us
Steps we take at this time may not be “strategic” but they may be what helps change…everything.
The Practice of Global Solidarity
What’s the difference between approaches to global development versus global solidarity?
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.
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?
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.
It’s about more than school fees
My conversation with Saaed Wame, founder and director of NACC in Malawi, on valuing community contributions, the challenges of child protection, and how numbers cannot portray the true value of his organization’s work. Support them on GlobalGiving!
Time for some network thinking in your organization?
Network thinking has been on my mind. Sharing this piece from Curtis Ogden of the Interaction Institute of Social Change.
Leading From Love: The attentiveness that brought accountability
“In his breakdown, he not only owned up to embezzlement, but also to having let down his own family, his community, his people, and the generations to come.” A guest post from Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director of IDEX.
13 thoughts for aid in 2013
As I was sitting in a year-end retreat, I started jotting down this list of things that the development aid world could use more of in 2013. I offer it as some food for thought for the year ahead.