Harry Who?
I primarily blog about topics of interest to NGO practitioners as their organizations engage internationally. But from time to time a topic comes along that is international but a little [...]
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Dec 2010
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Dec 2010
Internal decision making practices: doesn’t sound exciting, but oh so important
Last week , I lamented “Why am I still surprised at the number of organizations that don't follow the most basic 'good practices' for internal decision-making?” A colleague replied that [...]
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Nov 2010
The The Cosi10 Learning Process – Organizing Around the World On and Offline
Over the weekend of November 5th-7th 2010 four groups met in Belgium, Cyprus, and the U.S. (Chicago and Denver) to talk about social innovation and their personal entrepreneurial projects. The [...]
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Nov 2010
Thanksgiving and EpicThanks
Thursday is Thanksgiving in the U.S. With Christmas Day and New Years it is one of only three days when almost all commercial and governmental operations are closed. I especially [...]
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Nov 2010
A Community of Practice to Discuss Global Scale Up
In June I wrote about some of the scale-up work I was doing with the Helping Babies Breathe. In August I wrote about a collaboration with Amy Sample Ward of [...]
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Oct 2010
The preciousness of water
The annual Blog Action Day is this year focused on water. Take a few minutes with me to focus on this important issue. In some ways I’ve had water conservation [...]
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Oct 2010
What makes someone inspirational?
A few times recently I’ve found myself writing these words: “One of the most inspirational voices of our time” about Kumi Naidoo, Paul Farmer and Wangari Maathai. As I don’t [...]
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Sep 2010
What have we learned from all of this talk about Millennium Development Goals?
Last week in New York world leaders, NGO representatives, and a multitude of other stakeholders and interested parties met for a review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In addition [...]
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Sep 2010
What’s all this talk about Millennium Development Goals?
In September 2000, 189 world leaders met at the United Nations and agreed on a roadmap setting out eight time-bound and measurable goals to address extreme poverty by 2015. These [...]
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Sep 2010
Resources for NGOs Engaging Internationally
As a follow-up to my post earlier this month on the CIVICUS World Assembly this is a listing of some of the interesting resources that were shared at the Assembly. [...]