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Impact Africa August 17 2014: The "How" of African Development

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To: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to support full funding for poverty-focused development assistance in the International Affairs Budget and to oppose any budget cuts to lifesaving foreign assistance for the world's poorest communities. I support effective aid programs that save lives and deliver results, and I ask you to do the same...

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The Development Element Guidelines for the future of communicating about the end of global poverty

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Somali-Americans need reliable ways to send $ to loved ones.#USTreasury must keep #Somalia's lifeline open. http://thndr.it/1mm14Wd

[oscarthinks]

A three dimensional view of justice

It was during college I first learned the maxim, “give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime.” I know I wasn’t the only one.

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Global health icon says aid must build local systems - See more at: http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2013/12/18/global-health-icon-aid-must-build-local-systems/#sthash.GofIooto.dK5rCMCB.dpuf

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MUST READ  thenewinquiry:

By TEJU COLE

A clear day in the early nineteen-eighties, for example. A man drives past the harbor of the city in which he lives. He sees docked boats, restaurants, children at play, the island sleeping in the distance. Without quite meaning to, he remembers that the island is a...

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Tweets from SEIU Local 500's Nonprofit Summit in Washington DC on 9/21/13. 

[danpallotta]

The change-the-world industry can be clique-y, gossipy, back-stabbing, fiercely competitive. It reminds me of Thomas Merton’s phrase - “wars among saints.” The word philanthropy means “love of humanity.” This love cannot be picky. It can’t be confined to a feeling of compassion toward a grantees’...

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It matters whose story you’re listening to.

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5 things that inhibit our ability to listen to those on the receiving end of aid 

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Support the next Barefoot Guide 4 - Exploring the Real Work of Social Change (by Doug Reeler)

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It’s touted as the largest slum in Africa. The sea of rusty tin roofs, interspersed with piles of garbage and gullies of free-flowing sewage, is an icon of global poverty—a location featured in the film The Constant Gardener and the scene of countless celebrity photo ops. The first time I saw...

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"I was reminded how hard development work is, and how fruitless it can be when we don’t take the time to know people."

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[New] "Being honest about one’s blind spots and weaknesses is tough medicine to administer to oneself...that’s why it’s so important that do-gooders consciously surround themselves with people who offer differing perspectives." 

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Are the people served invested in the outcomes of your program(s)? And most importantly, how can you know?