In the midst of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, aid, philanthropy, non-profits and governments are rapidly reimagining the way they communicate and engage with their constituents. This blog series is a way for organizations to share stories about how feedback has helped them face COVID-19, give advice on closing feedback loops in a time of crisis, and share tools and resources to make rapid feedback easy.
Megan Campbell | October 15, 2020 Read more about how funders can listen well on GrantCraft by Candid and as part of the Council on Foundations’ series about implementing the COVID-19 foundation pledge! As COVID-19 spread worldwide in early 2020, almost 800 leading philanthropists signed a pledge to act with ‘fierce urgency’ to support the…
Sanjay Fernandes | September 16, 2020 Decades of armed conflict and violence have silenced residents in Colombia. In 2014, SOLE Colombia began a project to break that silence. SOLE (Self-Organized Learning Environments) is part of a global movement to use technology to empower groups to learn, collaborate, and most importantly, to solve real-life problems! In…
Doussouba Konate | August 31, 2020 Pour lire en français, cliquez ici. Battling misinformation is always a challenge. It’s even more of a challenge if the population you serve has varying degrees of literacy and uses a variety of channels to access information. At Accountability Lab Mali, we are tackling this challenge head-on as we…
Ilse Berenice Garibay Dueñas | August 27, 2020 With an uptick in global hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic, many families are more worried about providing nutrition for their children than they are about the virus itself. I’ve seen this dynamic play out in my work on the frontlines of nutrition support in Mexico. I work…
Farah Fahd Abdulaziz Al-Wazeer | August 18, 2020 Since 2005, The Small And Micro Enterprise Promotion Service (SMEPS) has fostered entrepreneurship and financial sustainability in Yemen. We do this by linking development and humanitarian projects together in order to create sustainable jobs that influence social good. As such, we strengthen food supply chains and associated…
Chely Esguerra | August 6, 2020 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization that aims to give support to those who are affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence. Its institutional strategy is anchored on the statement “putting people at the center”. One of the ways it does…
Melanie Pinet and Carmen Leon-Himmelstine | July 30, 2020 International development research is often guilty of perpetuating colonial power dynamics. These dynamics show up when researchers design studies with a western gaze, fail to support local leadership in carrying out the study, or neglect to communicate the results of research back to the communities who…
Clara Ong and Damian Hajda | July 24, 2020 Socialsuite is a technology platform that helps organizations measure the impact of their programs on communities. In April, they launched a free COVID-19 impact monitoring tool so organizations could rapidly listen, understand, and act to help their people during the COVID-19 crisis. The tool also allows…
Piter Panjaitan | July 22, 2020 Bali Life is a small charity with a big heart. Since 2008, we have supported and empowered Balinese children and women through a variety of programs. Whether we are running a daycare center, school, sustainable farm, or our cataract surgery program, we focus on building deep relationships with the…
Feedback Labs | May 15, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has been a shock to our systems. While we work to recover, it’s also important that we ask ourselves what we’ve learned from this experience and how we can be better prepared for the next crisis. Disease epidemics are becoming more likely and the damage from…