Getting Married

Monday, April 30th, 2012

I leave tomorrow for my wedding and honeymoon. Needless to say, I will not be online or taking phone calls until after May 10th.

As many of you know, I’ve been in Utah for the past two months taking care…

HOW NOT TO GIVE – By Stanford Storytelling Project

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

A 14 minute podcast by the Stanford Storytelling Project which discusses the 1 million shirts project, the blogosphere furor it created, and what finally happened. Click here to read the 60 posts written on the 1 million shirt…

Founder stories don’t really matter

Friday, April 20th, 2012

As an entry for the Day Without Dignity 2012, I was sent a typical White in Shining Armor founder story. Someone that had left their good job to volunteer in Africa and ended up starting their…

Al Jazeera’s The Stream Talks Aid and #Dignity2012

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

This post is crossposted with generous permission from A View from the Cave.

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TMS “Teddy” Ruge, Co-Founder of Project Diaspora and Joel Charny, Vice President for Humanitarian Policy at InterAction sit down on the orange…

Real Impact with Saeed Wame

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

This article originally appeared on how-matters.org, a blogsite aimed at raising the level of human dignity within international aid. Its creator, Jennifer Lentfer, has worked with over 300 grassroots organizations in east and southern Africa over the past decade. Having…

Mama Lucy on Poverty – Local Champions

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

The following is cross-posted with permission from The Epic Change Blog. It was originally written by Mama Lucy for Blog Action Day 2008. I’ve cross-posted it here as part of A Day Without Dignity…

A Day Without Dignity 2012 – Local Champions

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

A Day Without Dignity was started last year as a counter-campaign to TOMs Shoes One Day Without Shoes event. With so many Whites in Shining Armor projects making the news we decided this year to focus on local…

A Closer Look at TOMS Shoes

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Tomorrow is TOMS shoes annual One Day Without Shoes publicity event. I thought it would be a good time to highlight this podcast by Tiny Spark which takes a critical look at the founder of TOMS, Blake Mycoskie,…

Announcing A Day Without Dignity 2012 – Local Champions

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

We are happy to announce that A Day Without Dignity, 2012 will be held on Monday, April 16th.

A Day Without Dignity was originally launched as a counter-protest to TOMS One Day Without Shoes event. Last year we received over

Let’s just stone the whores

Friday, April 6th, 2012

We have decided that you should not be having sex and to stop this we will prevent you from getting birth control. We will remove birth control from insurance policies and shut down Planned Parenthood office across the country. If…