When Philanthropy Kills
By James Shelley
19 July 2010
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On Wednesday I had the opportunity to participate in the Ignite London event. Ignite events are like the Toastmasters of the media generation fused with a super-localized version of TED talks, where people share something they are passionate about in 5 minutes. The trick is that you must use 20 slides, and each slide automatically advances every 15 seconds. I decided to do my Ignite talk on the issue of philanthropy and international development. I hope you find it thought-provoking.
If you are interested in exploring some of these issues further, I’d recommend checking out some of these blogs:
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Good pitch, The shoebox idea isn’t too bad as a initiative but should indeed contain stimuli for a group of people instead of individuals. I have mentioned this earlier at my children’s school where shoe box projects are running for years. Adopting a local community “need” issue per class is a good start of gathering related content for the shoeboxes. Shoeboxes and their contents will then be connected challenging the local community to think about what should be done with the contents to benefit from as a community. The classes of the schools can work together working out the related contents. This can be seen as a part of the school program lessons on Social economics.
Now parents receive a note gathering soap, toothbrush pens etc. and the children’s input is far less.
My daughter wrote a letter and some drawings and got back a message from malawi. Shoeboxes should contain more of that interaction triggers.
Really well-said, James! I have heard about Appreciative Inquiry but hadn’t thought about it in terms of applying it to international development. I want to learn more! Great talk!
I’m coming to this discussion representing donors who are incredulous that doing something good can lead to harm. To help explain why that happens, I’m compiling a post with just specific examples and have included a link to your video here.
You can see more at http://www.actuallygiving.com/2010/07/when-giving-is-harmful/
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