Jun

25

Concerns and questions about The Girl Effect and Global Giving.

Filed Under The Way I See It | 1 Comment

I have some concerns and questions after watching The Girl Effect Video (see below) and going to Global Giving to donate some money. How much of the money I donate will actually go to the girls and how much of that money is used for admin?

I like the premise behind The Girl Effect. It’s not a new premise. Most of you have probably heard that expression that goes something like

“Give someone fish and feed them for a day; teach them how to fish and feed them for life”

I’m very much into teaching people how to fish. I try to do that in my classroom to help my students help themselves. I want to empower people, so The Girl Effect message appeals to me very much. But, and a very big but. I’m worried that the money I donate will benefit the charity more than the girls I want to empower.

Now, in all fairness to Global Giving , they have posted the audit of their financial records on their website, but I can’t make sense of it. It seems to me that more than 50% of the money they get goes for admin, but I’m not sure.

Could someone who knows how to read the audit interpret it for me so that I can make an informed decision. I would really appreciate it.

Below is the Girl Effect Video and here’s the link to Global Giving . There’s a link to their financial audits in the column on the right hand side of the page.

Thanks.

Jun

19

Join us for Day in a Sentence and Photo Friday

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For some time now I’ve been contributing to Kevin’s Day in a Sentence-or poem, or VoiceThread. I like contributing to Day in a Sentence because it makes me stop and reflect on some aspect of the busy week I’ve just had. I look forward to contributing to DIAS. I must confess though, I’m partial to poems. But I’ve got that under control now. I just send my thoughts to Kevin and he publishes them, very creatively I might add, on Sundays.

I like reading the thoughts of other Day-in-a-Sentencers because they remind me how similar we are even though we live in different countries and continents. The more things change, the more they seem the same.

From time to time, Kevin invites others to host the DIAS. This week Bonnie is our host. When I went to Bonnie’s site to post my sentence, I was delighted to learn that she is also the host of Photo Fridays. I really like the idea of Photo Fridays. While DIAS gets me to think in words, Photo Fridays gets me to think in pictures. What could be better than words and pictures!

Although Photo Friday is just a few weeks old, it already has 27 members. Imagine! I love the photos. They’re sweet, they’re awesome; they’re inspiring. The photo that you see at the top of the page is my contribution this week. It’s one of my favourite photos of Katie and me. Katie is my darling three year old grandaughter.

(http://www.flickr.com/groups/photofridays/)

I invite you to join us at Bonnie’s this week for Day in a Sentence and Photo Fridays. See you there.


Jun

14

Great Interactive Websites for math and science

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I’d like to thank Karen Brooks for creating this Slideshare with all these wonderful resources. I know that I will be using some of them come next September with my grade nine class and I’ll be sharing this treasure with my colleagues.

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