‘More Than Good Intentions’ and ‘Three Cups of Tea’

Monday, April 25th, 2011

It seems fitting that the Three Cups of Tea scandal coincides with the release of the book More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty. And no, although our titles are similar,…

The ‘Three Cups of Tea’ Scandal and My Greatest Concern

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

The scandal behind “Three Cups of Tea” has highlighted many problems currently surrounding aid and philanthropy. I’ve written about most of these issues in the past, and there have been so many brought up in this current scandal that it…

Collecting “Three Cups of Tea” posts

Monday, April 18th, 2011

I’m still deciding what, if anything, I will write on this scandal. But in the meantime I thought I’d track the numerous posts springing up on the topic today. If you’re not familiar with the story, here is…

Two years of giving all I can

Friday, April 15th, 2011

This week marks the two year anniversary of this blog. Most of you have only known of me for these past two years, although my work educating donors began long before I started Good Intentions. Altogether I’ve dedicated…

A reader’s analysis of gifts-in-kind programs

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

One of my regular readers, Eric Isakson, wrote in with his analysis of Gift-in-kind (GIK) assistance. He has graciously allowed me to post his thoughts here.

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There are three parts to GIK that I think need to be…

Day without Dignity: Awareness raised, now next steps…

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

This is a cross-post from Bonnie Koenig and her blog Going International. It’s a follow up to her post last week “Raising Awareness” towards what goal? for the Day Without Dignity counter-campaign.

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Socially conscious shoes

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

My counter-campaign has put me at the center of many conversations about shoes. It seems that TOMS has been very successful at connecting the purchase of shoes with social causes. Several people have written to either ask what shoes they…

More on the CNN Effect

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

So it turns out the one of my readers conducted research into the “CNN Effect” following the 2004 tsunami. His study is titled Media Coverage and Charitable Giving after the 2004 Tsunami (gated) here’s an earlier version…

The Day Without Dignity Video

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

I want to thank everyone who participated in A Day Without Dignity. So many of you shared thoughtful posts and touching photos. Your contributions have been invaluable to readers and were key to creating this video.

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A Day Without Dignity

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

Update: A Day Without Dignity 2012 – Local Champions page is now up. Click here to see all of this year’s entries.

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A Day Without Dignity is a counter-campaign to TOMS Shoes A Day Without…