Archive for February, 2011
Thailand needs clothes but New Zealand doesn’t?
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Since the earthquake in New Zealand, I’ve noticed a distinct lack of calls for people to send shoes, shirts, and other gifts-in-kind to New Zealand. I tweeted about the difference between this and either the earthquake in Haiti or the…
Interesting articles and posts – February 2011
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Links to articles and posts that I found interesting this month – excluding World Vision posts.
TOMS Shoes vs. Whole Foods – smorgasblurb - Looks at which has the greater positive impact in developing areas.
The World Vision controversy continues
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
World Vision has been writing a series of posts explaining their gifts-in-kind (GIK) program on their blog. Their posts have been polite and provide a little more detail about their programs. Unfortunately, their explanations raise as many questions…
Awaiting World Vision’s Response
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
UPDATE: World Vision did respond to some questions posed by Aid Watch. It was posted late Wednesday night.
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It’s been five days since World Vision last addressed criticisms to their NFL t-shirt donation program. Their response at…
An example of why the percent spent on administration is meaningless
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
I’ve written extensively about why administration cost ratios are a meaningless indicator and how focusing on them can do more harm than good. The World Vision controversy provides a perfect example of this issue. If you need some…
Tracking the World Vision / NFL Shirt Donation Controversy
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
There are now over 60 posts on the controversial NFL t-shirt donation to World Vision. This blog will be regularly updated as new posts are written. Recent posts are added to the top of each section.
Posts on the controversy:…
Barbarian Economics and World Vision’s NFL Shirt Donations
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
The following is a guest post by @Bill_Westerly, the imagined alter ego of Bill Easterly. I invited Bill to guest post and offered to help him with his English as his barbarian accent can be difficult…
Orphanage tourism in Cambodia
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Al Jazeera examines the orphanage tourism market in Cambodia. This video examines issues of attachment and abandonment, the question of who financially benefits from program, the question of whether the volunteers have the appropriate skills and background checks, and other…
Explaining the radio silence over World Vision
Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Within days of Mashable announcing the 1millionshirts project dozens of blog posts were written on the subject. Jason Sadler and his project were duly trounced by the aid blogosphere. Yet, with the announcement of World Vision’s…
World Vision, the new 100,000 shirts
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
So World Vision is the new 1 million shirts. Except instead of sending 1 million donated shirts to Africa they’re sending 100,000 misprinted Super Bowl shirts to Zambia, Armenia, Nicaragua, and Romania. And unlike Jason Sadler,…
