Praise for Good Intentions Are Not Enough
“Good Intentions is a different kind of site. Rather than help users find charities to support, it tries to teach people how to donate.”
“One of the best development blogs out there”
“One particularly influential blog is being written by Saundra Schimmelpfennig”
“It is not always easy to hear what Sandra Schimmelpfennig has to say about charitable giving in her aptly named blog, Good Intentions Are Not Enough, but she always stops me in my tracks and helps me to see a new perspective.”
Marginal Revolution
“An Excellent Blog on How to Help Poor Countries”
Staying for Tea
“I like Saundra’s approach at Good Intentions are Not Enough. She’s posted numerous helpful and well-toned lessons and guidelines”
Carla at Develop Haiti
“I really like that you consistently point out best practices/solutions and don’t simply criticize. That’s rare and to be emulated.”
More Altitude
“I’d recommend… [to] anybody also interested in this line of work- take a look at the large amount of important and very digestable information about aid quality and donorship, starting with the website ‘Good Intentions are Not Enough’…”
Ben Ramalingam, Head of Research and Development, ALNAP
“Attempts to improve aid are as old as the sector itself. The latest manifestion of aid effectiveness is a rhetoric of results, accountability, and learning. But are aid agencies ready to sacrifice a preoccupation with image, revenues and growth in favour of a more honest dialogue about what they achieve, how and for whom?
As Saundra suggests in the title of her successful blog, Good Intentions Are Not Enough, there are grounds for scepticism. Her work challenges all of us involved in the ongoing struggle to improve aid – eloquent, intelligent and impassioned. Everyone should be paying attention.”
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