Jun

25

Concerns and questions about The Girl Effect and Global Giving.

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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.

May

29

Keeping things in perspective

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Next week is the last week of regular classes before exams, and I'm dreading all the paper work that the end of the school year demands. I wouldn't say that I was exactly feeling sorry for myself-well maybe a teensy weensy bit. I know that there are lots of worse jobs than doing the end of school year paper work, but sometime I forget. What can I say. At times, I'm can be just as self centered as the next person. The cartoon provided a nice little reality check. I think I'll print it out and post it on my bulletin board above my desk, just above the piles of paperwork.

May

16

Turn a problem into a solution

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The video “The Amazing Intelligence of Crows” aside from being highly entertaining to watch made an excellent point. Well, it actually made more than one point but I’m just going to focus on one here.

The thing that really struck me after watching the video is that I need to remember to think outside the box so that I can change liabilities into assets. I’m not going into more detail here because I don’t want to spoil the video for you. You’ll know what I mean, after you’ve watched it. Enjoy.

I’m going to show the video to my students and have that discussion about turning negatives into positives. I wonder what their reaction to the video will be?

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