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Leading From Love: The attentiveness that brought accountability
A guest post by Rajasvini Bhansali It had been six months since I started my new role as a management advisor for a network of youth polytechnics[1] in rural Kenya. The Wakamba village elders in Maseki...
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Time for some network thinking in your organization?
Here’s a great piece by Curtis Ogden of the Interaction Institute of Social Change, shared today by Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace. Network thinking has been on my mind since attending...
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It’s about more than school fees
Saeed Wame, founder and director of Namwera AIDS Coordinating Committee (NACC) of Malawi. Photo by Joop Rubens. www.jooprubens.com I always walk away from a conversation with Saeed Wame with a brand...
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Wanted: Films that illustrate how aid works
The Social Impact Media Awards, organized by DEEDA Productions, have announced their 2nd annual call for submissions for their juried 2014 awards. Filmmakers and do-gooders, show us your video-based...
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Building a Fire: Thinking twice about how we look at organizational capacity...
When I started working with and funding grassroots organizations in east and southern Africa, my goal was to flip the script on old-school capacity building approaches. First of all, what if what was...
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Do we “walk the talk”?
If you work in the global development, philanthropy, aid, social enterprise, nonprofit, etc. space, this question can lead to perplexing, frustrating, unwelcome, or liberating reflections. With all of...
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A new kind of donor: 4 things they do differently
We all know there are aid donors and international funding partners out there that want to change “business as usual,” to challenge the terms of global development. (Or at least people inside those...
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The Practice of Global Solidarity
With this announcement pending and this article coming on the new partnership between IDEX and Black Lives Matter last week and the AWID Forum coming up this week, I was reflecting a lot on the...
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Willing to say what needs to be said
If How Matters has made any small contribution, I hope it’s been pointing the global development sector towards indigenous or locally-led movements and groups in the Global South. That is why I...
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The aftershock
There are real consequences to speaking up. In my work to support more people to “be braver“, to “say it and stay with it,” I cannot ever reassure someone that there will not be ramifications. The...
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