Do Donations, Charities, CSR programs really have any impact long term?
We should rethink the way we give and empower others if we are serious about solving the most pressing problems we face.
There are so many new problems happening everyday.
Complaining does not solve problems, protesting does not solve problems.
There is only so much the government or NGOs can do. Being big and bureaucratic allows them to act fast and raise lots of funds, but they are slow to respond to changes.
We need innovation and people to take actions and accountability.
We all live on the sample planet.
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There are so many new problems happening everyday.
Complaining does not solve problems, protesting does not solve problems.
There is only so much the government or NGOs can do. Being big and bureaucratic allows them to act fast and raise lots of funds, but they are slow to respond to changes.
We need innovation and people to take actions and accountability.
We all live on the sample planet.
‘Social business is the happy medium between selfishness and charity' Albertina Navas
The Bangladeshi economist, known as the Banker to the Poor, is currently focussing his energies on spreading the concept of social business, which refers to business in which shareholders, after recouping their capital, decide to reinvest all of their profits in the company for the purpose of resolving a social problem. In this vision, microcredit fits well as one more option for fighting poverty and not its only solution. The Nobel Laureate explains this in his own words. (This article has been reproduced with permission of Gestión Magazine for non-commercial purpouses).
Empowering communities through social innovationRobin Low
Good intentions are not enough, you need to think critically about impact to ensure your efforts are not wasted and you can always work with communities near you to solve social problems.
Introducing the concept of Charitable Microfinance, as a renewed perspective to the dimension and dynamics of microfinance.Conventional source of finance isn't enough to tackle the challenge of poverty and abject penury. However, the proposed model of work will certainly bring in a holistic change provided it's allowed to flourish in it's vision and impacting mission.
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Good intentions does not mean real impactRobin Low
My experience and lessons learned from going to all major disasters in the past 15 years. This is my talk in Tokyo in November 2015.
My failures and successes are all lessons for everyone to learn.
This is my talk at various NGOs, and refugee camps.
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Introducing the concept of Charitable Microfinance, as a renewed perspective to the dimension and dynamics of microfinance.Conventional source of finance isn't enough to tackle the challenge of poverty and abject penury. However, the proposed model of work will certainly bring in a holistic change provided it's allowed to flourish in it's vision and impacting mission.
The executive summary report of the global corporate volunteering research pr...ActionGood
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We're creating a socially conscious fashion brand that leverages collective talents to restore and reveal the true value of those who are victimized by the commercial sex trade.
Ashoka's Youth Venture aims to build a global movement of young people being powerful now, changemakers now. This is the foundation for an "everyone a changemaker" world, the key factor for success for every society, organization, and person.
What is social enterprise nccu cedi presentationJeff Stern
This is a presentation on social enterprise for nonprofits, to be given April 9th at "Marketing Strategies: Tools for Nonprofits and Social Enterprises," a free half-day workshop hosted by The NCCU Community Economic Development Initiative. Registration is free and more info is available at http://nccunonprofit.org/about.html
Good intentions does not mean real impactRobin Low
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My failures and successes are all lessons for everyone to learn.
This is my talk at various NGOs, and refugee camps.
If you want to learn a new skill or help a community, and you don't know how or where to start, this is a quick starter guide that you should read
Social Initiative to support survivors in Nepal using art. Raising funds and awareness on progress of recovery of Nepal Earthquake 2015. http://publichouse.sg/2016/02/art-impact-leveraging-on-the-arts-to-help-nepal-quake-survivors/
We plan to run this Internationally and looking for suitable venues and community to engage to make this happen.
CSR is an increasingly important topic for business students. This revision presentation explains the basic theory behind CSR and outlines the main arguments for and against implementing CSR. Various case studies are also provided together with links to further research.
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If status quo does not solve problems, perhaps we need to all try to do our part and look for solutions, try for our local community. It take effort and courage to bring about change.
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Focusing on three areas essential to nonprofit success in the era of online giving: participatory programs, new younger donors, and communicating one's story. Produced as a training by Reggie Woolery of 'Arts4Good' for participants in "Give Big San Bernardino County 2015" campaign.
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Solar Forward program to empower communities with active participation to reduce poverty through solar energy.
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Art Impact at NTU on 22 Aug, 2016.
12:30pm
At The Library Outpost (The Hive)
Artists from Nepal will give a talk on the Nepal earthquake and progress of recovery, will also have Nepal art and handicrafts for sale, supporting survivors, giving them a job to earn money to rebuild their homes.
The Dreamity Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Youths aged 8 - 14 is on again in Singapore in September 2015.
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Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
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Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
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Solidarity Zone
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Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
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Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
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Donate Us
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2. WHY DO WE HELP?
• Religion?
• Branding?
• Good Intentions?
• Guilt?
3. POPULAR FORM OF
HELP: DONATIONS
Individuals and business like to help by
donating money.
Some donate a certain portion of profits
while others a certain amount every regular
interval.
This is a minimal form of helping and one
of the most common form.
4. NEPAL EARTHQUAKE
Twin Earthquakes 7.8 and 7.3 magnitude
About 9,000 people killed
650,000 families displaced
600,000 homes destroyed beyond repair
5.
6.
7. DONATIONS
Nepal received USD$4.1 billion from
International Communities and World
Bank.
Guess what is progress at the 1 year
anniversary?
8. REAL IMPACT IN
NEPAL IN MAY 2016
Some construction on infrastructure
started.
Some rebuilding on UNESCO sites.
Number of homes rebuilt =
0
9.
10. OTHER PROBLEMS
• Political indecision (Nepal
Reconstruction Agency)
• Unofficial Blockade on Indian border
• PUSHING OF BLAME
• WAITING FOR HELP
11. RESULTS
• People died from exposure from
environment.
• People displaced living in tents
• Farmers living in tents on their
farms, reduced income and food.
• Jobs lost (no Fuel)
• Unequal distribution of support.
12.
13. SINGAPORE HELP
Students from Singapore visited Nepal and
distributed aid.
Supported by Mega Churches, what can go
wrong?
14. SINGAPORE HELP
Students decided not to leave Kathmandu,
and just deliver aid in Kathmandu.
They discovered bibles in blankets.
(Common practice in Relief)
They “helped” to remove it.
15. RESULTS
What do you think when a majority
Buddhist / Hindu country finds lots of
bibles in their capital?
16. MANY PEOPLE WANT TO
HELP, FEW KNOW HOW
Everyone thinks helping is easy.
Most do it out of convenience.
Does anything think about the impact of
their deeds?
Some help out of pity, and they get angry
when they see the recipients have a nice
meal or buy something nice.
18. CAN HAITIANS DRIVE?
Haiti Earthquake 2010
Food donation & delivery.
Trucks of Aid to Port-au-Prince.
5 year old saw the dominican driver
and asked, “Can Hatians Drive?”
19.
20. SCHOOL REBUILDING
Singaporean students decided to rebuild a
school that collapsed in Kathmandu.
Raised funds, bought materials and talked
to a school to help rebuild the building.
21. IS CONSTRUCTION
LOW SKILLED JOB
Do you think you can rebuild a school
structure with cement, cinder blocks, Metal
bars and a zinc roof?
Can you learn this from the Internet?
25. CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
Do CSR programs have ulterior motives?
Financial Motives?
Improve Image?
Advertising?
Counter the claims of pressure?
Regulated and mandated by law?
Part of Public Relations?
Avoiding Regulations?
26. EXAMPLES OF CSR
CSR department in a multimillion dollar company
has a headcount of 2, some CSR people work in
marketing department.
CSR has created a language shift, a re-brand and a
new caring
CSR funding lobbies to avoid regulation
CSR dialogue with NGOs behind closed doors to
defend their image
CSR looks at bottom of the Pyramid as a new
market, and plans to create products to meet
market needs.
27. EXAMPLES OF CSR
CSR of mining companies build hospital and
schools in village to have access to open cast
mining operations in the vicinity
CSR donates 1% of profits to charities and use
“recipients” as models for marketing campaigns
CSR initiative forcing employees to pick up trash
on the beach or clean an old folks home.
Through CSR, companies are trying to appeal to
ethical consumers but also to undermine the
principle of ethical consumption.
28. CORPORATE CITIZEN
FOR CORPORATE RIGHTS
Are CSR programs corporate attempts to
increase corporate dominance, rather than
a defensive “image management”
The term 'corporate citizen', used to
describe corporations that are attempting
to be socially responsible, creates a new
image of the corporation as an entity which
has rights, feelings, a legitimate voice in a
democracy, and which behaves in a moral
manner.
29. CORPORATE CITIZEN
FOR CORPORATE RIGHTS
Their involvement is bought by their
'commitment' to CSR and 'sustainability',
and gives them the opportunity to dominate
the agenda and put across their view of
how the world should be run.
30. GOVERNMENT
INVOLVEMENT
How much of actual support from the
government is done for political gains?
Are some activities done just for show?
31. CORPORATE FUNDING
When funding of NGOs, civil groups come
from only one source, and the source
decides to exert pressure to play key roles.
They can really shape discourse, good or
bad, and sometimes, for specific gains.
Or is the Corporation funding just for one
thing: “Access to emerging market”?
32. Is helping any help?
Not really…
At least not in the way we are doing it…
33. Often when we help…
We make life decisions for
those we are helping.
34. Often when we help…
We fail to see the whole picture
and feel content to help.
35. Often when we help…
We search the approach most efficient to
us not to those we are trying to help.
36. Often when we help…
We destroy the very same environment
we are trying to help.
43. How can we
not use our
gift to lift the
burden of
others?
44. Disaster Response Lies…
• Only experts can help.
• You will be a burden in the field.
• We don’t need anything, we have all we need.
• Do not send clothes or food, send money.
45. We all can respond…
• And guarantee an efficient response…
• Donate Action, not money, not words…
• But how?
46. Disaster Response Basics:
You can be useful in the field if…
• Bring your own supplies and food to the field.
– Or buy them locally if possible.
• Engage the local stakeholders and work for
them, with them.
• Are connected.
• Have independent mobility.
• Listen, learn, respect.
47. Relief 2.0 (what is it?)
• A focus on running the last mile in disaster relief
• through independent units of local stakeholders
and foreign volunteers in the field
• supported by mobile technologies and social
networks
• to fill the gaps created by bureaucracy and slow
response from top-down hierarchies.
48. Relief 2.0 (how does it work?)
• Individuals and organizations report incidents,
needs and requests from the field using their
mobile phones and the Internet.
49. Relief 2.0 (how does it work?)
• These incidents are reviewed, verified, completed,
enhanced and their information spread to others
by individuals and groups on social networks
– Housewives, youngsters, volunteers, anyone.
until they are addressed, solved or matched with
someone who takes care of it.
50. Relief 2.0 (the last mile)
• Small independent units then complete the cycle by
actually addressing those issues and delivering the
response required and supported by the social
network.
57. Disasters create survivors,
they don’t create refugees.
It is the conventional relief system what turns
survivors into refugees.
58. Disasters do not destroy
knowledge or capacity
Teachers are still teachers, doctors are still doctors,
nurses are still nurses, carpenters are still carpenters…
63. Disaster recovery with dignity, inclusion,
generation and distribution of wealth
Businesses working with businesses to get back on track
and jumpstarting the economy to serve people
64. Matching shops and businesses affected by disaster with
same-trade businesses in non-affected areas and
enable collaboration to get businesses
to re-open as soon as possible.
Relief 2.0 B2B
65. It’s not charity, it’s not donation.
Both businesses reach a collaborative business agreement:
36 mth low interest loan, restore inventory, line of credit, etc.
It’s a business deal that preserves their dignity.
Relief 2.0 B2B
66. Relief 2.0 Enterprise
We need to start working with disaster survivors
and enable them as entrepreneurs before they
are turned into refugees by conventional relief.
67. Matching Co-ops from Villages to Local Business Organizations.
Buying van to transport injured to hospitals, and crops to market.
Repaying with agreed upon fair priced barter trade.
Connecting farmers to markets directly.
Relief 2.0 B2V
70. ART IMPACT NEPAL
Leveraging on Arts for Disaster Recovery.
• Sell art to raise funds to build art studio.
• Teach earthquake survivors to make handicrafts.
• Sell handicrafts to increase income for survivors.
• Run international shows to find overseas market.
• Create awareness for Nepal products
• Build residential art studios to allow foreign artists
to come support survivors to learn and teach art.
74. SOLAR FORWARD
Pay it forward model to bring solar panels
to rural areas and earthquake survivors.
Top income generators (people with second
job) will be given solar kit with
responsibility
Light allows them to be more productive
and 4 more hours of light can allow more
income.
75. SOLAR FORWARD
Saving $1 a day, recipients can buy a solar kit
for someone else in 2 months, enabling them to
provide for others what was given to them.
He and the new recipient of the solar kit can
continue to save and buy more kits for the rest
of the village.
Eventually, whole village can have light.
Empowering the victims to be change agents.
76. SOLAR FORWARD
Monitor success, learn from village
dynamics.
Getting NGOs and Foundations to support,
give guarantee for other villagers.
They can pay via installments from regular
banks, US$0.30 a day for 6 months at 10%
interest.
They can build up credit and be integrated
into baking system.
77. SOCIAL INNOVATION
The point is, everyone can contribute. Not
just with money, not just doing little tasks
with no real impact.
We have innovative ideas, knowledge and
skills which can solve complex problems.
There are interesting projects near you or
you can gather friends to work on
something you care about.
78. There are so many new problems
happening everyday.
Complaining does not solve problems,
protesting does not solve problems.
There is only so much the government or
NGOs can do. Being big and bureaucratic
allows them to act fast and raise lots of
funds, but they are slow to respond to
changes.
We need innovation and people to take
actions and accountability.
We all live on the sample planet.