Funding for projects benefiting children availabe

Yesterday I attended the yearly Jugend Hilft (Youth Helps) celebration by Children for a Better World, a Munich-based NGO. As a sideline to my work at betterplace, I have been running one of their Berlin Children Councils, groups of children and teenagers who themselves receive, discuss and decide applications for funding. In my group are [...]
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Tags: applications for funding, children councils, Children for a better world

Which projects do we recommend?

What qualifies projects to appear on one of our featured projects list? A clear project description? A good photo? A full web of trust? Over the last couple of months we at betterplace have often debated what distinguishes a good project (on betterplace) from a lesser one. Of course, there is (at least for me) [...]
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Tags: evaluation, project quality

Polar Bears make great activists

Over the weekend, two different environmental campaigns caught my attention; both involving Polar Bears: Last Friday,  Action Forward, a Dutch collective, raised this statue in the city of Den Bosch. The statue is made out of tyres and portraits a Polar Bear who throws a oil barrel to the passing cars. The Netherlands counts almost 8 [...]
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Tags: Environmental campaigns, Polar Bear

Making development more efficient

Foreign aid, despite its do-good image, is an industry. Every year, governments and charities spend $200 billion on projects in developing countries. Yet contrary to the world of corporations and financial markets the sector is intransparent and lacks information. But this is gradually changing – and the internet plays a decisive role in this transformation. [...]
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Tags: aid efficiency, Developmentex, internet, Raj Kumar