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Posted on November 21, 2013
By Mark Olmstead
Founder and President of RESULTS, Sam Daley-Harris sat down with Carol Welch from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the Global Washington Conference on November 13, 2013.
Daley-Harris had an interesting transformation from his educational background to where he is now at RESULTS. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Music and never really considered a career focused on global poverty or climate change until he was invited to attend The Hunger Project in the late 70’s. He left that experience hopeless, thinking that hunger was inevitable and there was not much to be changed in the world. The only thing that would be achievable is self-control, which he was able to transform into a vision and goal to achieve results. Continue Reading
Posted on November 21, 2013
By Mark Olmstead
An audience of close to 450 gathered at the 2013 GlobalWA conference to hear the always-engaging Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps, talk with Katherine Cheng, Head of Global Corporate Citizenship and Community Relations for Bellevue-based Expedia.
The conversation began with talk of the recent destruction in the Philippines.
“I know everyone here has been following the news. What’s really important now, and for people to understand is that there is going to be fog and chaos. The infrastructure is destroyed and some areas have not been reached yet,” said Keny-Guyer. “The hope is to restore some of the transportation infrastructure which is critical. We are down on the ground with other organizations and this is where it really is all about collective impact” said Keny-Guyer, referencing the theme of this year’s conference, Catalyzing Collective Impact. Continue Reading
Posted on November 21, 2013
By Anna Jensen-Clem
In the conference’s closing keynote titled “The Battle for the Soul of the Nonprofit Sector,” Charity Navigator CEO Ken Berger spoke on a wide variety of issues influencing monitoring and evaluation of nonprofits in the United States. Berger was forthright and honest about the potential divisiveness of his speech, and presented a number of interesting points for debate. His address was essentially divided into two sections; first, he addressed the existing problems with monitoring, evaluation, and reporting in the nonprofit sector and enumerated many of the problems that nonprofit staff face when applying for and soliciting funding. Second, Berger offered solutions to some of these issues, and emphasized that nonprofits must provide meaningful information in their reports. Meaningful information is key for internal and external reports, and allows potential donors and foundation grantmakers to assess the value and impact of an organization they might wish to fund. Continue Reading