As I watch our economic crisis unfold, I've been wondering what the world will look like when we come out the other side. I believe that we will come out stronger, but also less rich. We will be less rich…
What do you do with your great idea of how to change the world? Do you keep it secrete while you try to figure out how to make it work as your project or do you tell everyone that you…
Robert Carr on the Everyday Giving Blog has highlighted a nice holiday giveaway. By downloading a free album from Peter Buffett, both Amie Street and the Robin Hood Foundation will donate a total of $3 for meal through the Food…
In sticking with the theme of why NGOs are not better at fostering internal capacity-building, I read the Mckinsey & Company entitled “Effective Capacity Building in Non-Profit Organizations” (August, 2001). The report was commissioned by Venture Philanthropy Partners as part…
Several years ago, a friend of mine< Wade Channell, wrote a paper for the Carengie Endowment entitled, “Lessons Not Learned: Problems with Western Aide for Post Communist Countries.”. The main ideas that I took away from the paper are that…
I am coming to the conclusion that poverty is influenced far more by macro economic policy than by antipoverty projects. I’ve just read Philip D Osei’s 2001 critique of the antipoverty programs in Jamaica. He asserts that although poverty did…
I’ve just read Paul Shaffer’s excellent article “New Thinking on Poverty: Implications for Globalisation and Poverty Reduction Strategies” (Real-world Economics Review, Issue no. 47, 3 October 2008, pp. 192-231). It is a great overview of the current thinking on poverty…