Topics
Regions
Resources
- MIT Poverty Action Lab
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- Development Research Institute
- Passport: Foreign Policy's Weblog
- UNDP Human Development Reports
- Philanthropy 2173
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Alliance Magazine
- Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Reuters AlertNet
- New York Times on Philanthropy
- The Economist
- The GiveWell Project
- Tactical Philanthropy
- AllTop Non-Profit Blogs
Jul 07, 2008
Bush Proposes Tracking Mechanism for Aid Pledges
A mechanism for tracking whether members of the G8 are keeping up with their pledged contributions toward development in impoverished countries would be a step in the right direction for injecting more accountability into foreign aid.
Jul 03, 2008
More Young People Looking for Post-College Stints in the Volunteer Corps
More recent college graduates are applying to join volunteer organizations such as Teach for America or the Peace Corps. Yet in the last few months two relevant stories have come out about the Peace Corps specifically, both of which suggest that its historical reliance on young volunteers has played a role in the organizations’ reputation as a particularly ineffective conduit for humanitarian relief.
Jun 27, 2008
Use of Child Soldiers Still Common Despite Decrease in Conflicts
A recent report released by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers quantified a significant decrease between 2004 and 2007 in the number of conflicts worldwide involving child soldiers. But where conflict remains the practice continues unabated.
Jun 23, 2008
Putting a Price on Water
The huge underwater aquifiers that have sustained agriculture in water scare regions in India and the Southwest United States have run dangerously low due to decades of uncontrolled pumping and wasteful irrigation. Without intervention, this scarcity will become only more acute, as farmers and other landowners preemptively pump even more in an effort to get as much as they can for themselves before it is gone. Making water a trade-able commodity that costs something based on availability and price is one solution to the problem.
Jun 17, 2008
Doing the Right Thing is Not Always Easy
Message fatigue can come about for any number of reasons. For one, constant bombardment with information about how bad things are can cause people to feel that their individual actions are meaningless. Equally concerning, however, is that the information donors need to make good decisions often becomes contradictory as an issue gets more attention.
Jun 12, 2008
Conflicting Data on American Education “Crises”
While there is vociferous conflict over the source of and remedies for the “crisis” in public education, it seems that everyone agrees that there is a big problem. Rather than spending millions of dollars fighting over education ideology we would all be better served by taking a humble approach that focuses on experimenting and testing various approaches to improving learning and performance by all students.
Jun 04, 2008
Lagging Donations to Burma and China: A Warning to Non-Profits?
Roughly three weeks after the cyclone and earthquake, the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University estimated that donations from Americans totaled less than $60 million, compared with more than $200 million given in the week after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Drawing valid conclusions about the cause behind these wildly disparate totals is difficult, but two main forces seem to be at play: where the disasters occurred and the American economic slowdown.
May 30, 2008
New and Old School Philanthropy on Display
While “new” philanthropy is confronting the challenge of public and tax policy, some “old” philanthropy approaches are showing their value.
May 29, 2008
The AIDS Crisis and The Invisible Cure
Philanthropy Action interviewed AIDS journalist and activist Helen Epstein on her views of current treatment and prevention programs in Africa and how Western money can do better work for the African AIDS crisis.
May 26, 2008
When Do We Start Calling It Genocide?
When will we start calling the willful and purposeful actions of the Burmese government to kill hundreds of thousands of Burmese through starvation, exposure and disease genocide?