Posts Tagged 'donors'
More bad donor advice
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Tales from the Hood takes on Nicholas Kristof, author of Half The Sky, for his recent article in Outside magazine titled “Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World”.
I am also critical of this article. Given his audience…
Orphanages revisited
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
I’ve blogged on orphanages quite a bit, but it’s worth revisiting one more time with the recent articles in both the BBC and New York Times.
According to an article in the BBC:
“At least four out of
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“Philanthropy is important and serious work. It does require time and thought.”
Monday, December 7th, 2009
Laura Freschi from AidWatch sent me a great article over the weekend, Why Measure: Nonprofits use metrics to show that they Are efficient. But what if donors don’t care? from Stanford Social Innovation. This report discusses…
Does your organization’s website inform or misinform donors?
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Donors are often not given the information they need to distinguish between professional and unprofessional aid agencies
To the average donor, aid agencies that spend time and money ensuring professional practices are indistinguishable from those that do not. If your…
Mosquito nets, condomns and recycling
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
This is a repost of an edited previous post
From the Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation:
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Disaster Tourism
Monday, June 29th, 2009
As director of D-TRAC I was often asked to orient heads of aid agencies and donors on the tsunami recovery efforts. As part of this there was usually a request to visit temporary camps and villages to see things in…
It’s time to stop telling pretty stories and start really evaluating the impact of aid
Friday, June 5th, 2009
With GiveWell’s Charity Reviews due in early July, the lack of available evaluations of aid agency work is once again highlighted.
After the tsunami in Thailand over 200 aid agencies of all types and sizes flooded into the area…
Donors must, because nobody else can
Friday, May 29th, 2009
I’m often asked if Thailand has recovered from the tsunami. This is a tricky question to answer because there is no official answer, it just depends on who you ask.
If you ask the aid agencies that built houses they’ll…
Bad Donor Advice Perpetuates Bad Aid Practices
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
The following is a copy of the comment I posted in response to the Wall Street Journal’s article Charities: Tough Times Call for Smarter Giving.
While proposing to provide information on smarter giving, your article…
Best practices often lose out to quick and cheap programs that please donors
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Donations can be misused and ill-spent despite the best intentions of donors
Deciding whether or not to donate and which agency or project to donate to can be a daunting and frustrating task. Although donors choose aid agencies that they…
