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There is no Road in Your Home: Social Networking in Uganda

Post author By Laura Richards
Post date August 9, 2016
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Photo: Laura Richards “There is no road in your home,” my neighbor Michael said to my friends and I as we sat down with a plate full of homemade Ugandan food. I tilt my head in confusion, trying to fit his words into the context of the evening full of dancing, singing, talk of politics […]

Tags Crooks Fellowship, International Development, Misc, Philanthropy and Non-Profit Organizations, Rural Development, Social Networking, Student Life, Summer Internships, Uganda

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Overcoming the Status Quo in Food Aid: Coalition Building at Bread for the World

Post author By Steven Damiano
Post date August 20, 2015
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Photo Credit: Todd Post/Bread for the World First in a series by Steven Damiano (LBJ MGPS Graduate) covering his internship at Bread for the World Institute. In the policy world, we often assume that if we use strong analysis to produce smart policy recommendations, legislators will see the benefits of our ideas and implement them. However, the reality is […]

Tags Food Security, International Development, Misc, Philanthropy and Non-Profit Organizations, Summer Internships

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Why Should We Bother Debating the Business of Giving?

Post author By Drake Baglietto
Post date March 7, 2015
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A Partnership Piece from the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy Photo Credit: Andre da Loba from the New York Times On its surface, the nature of philanthropic giving hardly seems to demand the need for public concern. With ISIS causing terror from afar and anti-vaccination parents sowing the seeds of discord from […]

Tags Ford School of Public Policy, Philanthropy and Non-Profit Organizations, Philanthropy Lab, Politics and Governance, Texas, University of Michigan

Philanthropy & Non-Profit Organizations

A New Era of Aid

Complain about how someone is doing something long enough and you’re likely to get a version of this classic response: “If you’re so unhappy with it, then do it yourself!” The rising importance of emerging donors proves that developing countries have decided to do just that in an effort to correct the ills of development […]

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