This blog is a forum for sharing ideas on how to make the world a better place, specifically when that involves reaching out to people whose cultural and economic surroundings are quite different from our own.
It’s about recognizing and learning from people whose work in this area we want to emulate.
And it’s about checking our work to ensure we’re doing well by the people whose lives are most affected by what we do.
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So in really general terms this blog is concerned with:
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improving conditions for people who are struggling the most
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encouraging the flow of money and information, and establishing as direct a connection as possible between those doing the giving and those doing the receiving where those two things are concerned
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the process of understanding
In more specific terms, it’s about:
- International Development, especially grassroots or community-level with an emphasis on capacity-building and reaching the Millenium Development Goals;
- Philanthropy, especially peer-to-peer or microphilanthropy where its practice and impact overlap with international development-type goals;
- Learning, especially approaches to learning that incorporate many kinds of “knowing” (experiential, contemplative, and cognitive) and that explore the relationship between what we think reality is and what we think we can know about that reality.
- Philosophy, especially hermeneutics and complexity theories that emphasize the co-creative relationship between an entity (like an idea or a thing) and the context from which it derives its identity.
- Philanthropy, especially peer-to-peer or microphilanthropy where its practice and impact overlap with international development-type goals;
