Posts Tagged 'donated goods'
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…
How much are the NFL shirts worth? World Vision isn’t saying
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
So it’s been almost a month since my original post discussing the financial incentive for World Vision to distribute donated goods. And World Vision has yet to clearly state how much the 100,000 NFL shirts are worth. In…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Do’s & Don’ts of Community Outreach
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
The following is a copy of the guest post I was invited to write for Less Conversation More Action, a blog which discusses issues faced by the green meetings industry. Organizations involved with the green meetings industry aim…
What aid workers think of the 1 Million Shirts campaign
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Within the past few days there has been a torrent of blog posts and tweets about yet another organization shipping donated goods overseas. Donated goods are, in general, bad aid. I’ve written numerous posts on the problems with…
