Dear Nonprofiteer,
I am wondering if you can help. I recently made a film about the efforts of a group of villagers in the developing world to find a means of support after their livelihoods were taken away by misguided government actions.
I am getting requests from people who want to donate money to the village after seeing [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘International’
October 1, 2009
Dear Nonprofiteer, How can I be sure that he who needs, gets?
March 13, 2009
Dear Nonprofiteer, Isn’t Oprah omnipotent?
Dear Nonprofiteer,
I’m wondering if you saw the Chicago Tribune story last week about the billboards erected by the organization SmileTrain to “solicit” Oprah Winfrey and what your reaction is. Since I am writing, it’s clear that I think there is a problem here. It’s clearly a clever campaign in that, although it [...]
March 10, 2009
Of kids and dogs
Obviously the Nonprofiteer has been in the business too long, because the press release below–trumpeting an uptick in aid to charities serving Indian children in the wake of Slumdog Millionaire–made her think of nothing so much as the “101 Dalmatians syndrome” dog-lovers mention to explain their dismay that the Obamas are getting a Portuguese water [...]
March 4, 2009
Where angels fear to tread
A group of Rice University MBA students is spending spring break in Rwanda, hoping to use their skills to come up with a distribution system for a trio of products developed through the university’s global health initiative: a low-cost neonatal incubator, a diagnostic lab-in-a-backpack and a plastic dosing device for liquid medicines.
“All of [...]
March 3, 2009
Polio: once more, with feeling
For many years, Rotary International has been a leader in raising funds to eradicate polio around the world–and when the Nonprofiteer says “many years,” she’s referring to a campaign now past its 20th birthday. Five years ago there was a piece in the New Yorker about what already seemed like an endless battle to wipe [...]
July 21, 2008
Multiplication* beats division+
Here’s an intriguing development in the ongoing process of trying to connect residents of deep-poverty nations with the resources of the Internet and, thus, the world economy: a computing device and software that enables up to 30 people to use a PC at one time, as if each person had a computer of his/her [...]
