A guest blog by Ralph Underhill, PIRC Associate and Director of Framing Matters. Framing Matters and Health Poverty Action have just published ‘A Practical Guide for Communicating Global Justice and Solidarity’. Here he introduces common communication traps. President Nixon famously…
Ralph Underhill is Director of Framing Matters and a PIRC Associate. Along with HPA he’s just published ‘A Practical Guide for Communicating Global Justice & Solidarity’. Giving to charity is supposed to be a good thing. That is pretty uncontroversial,…
NGOs—non-governmental organisations—are often used as shorthand for the institutions of the movement. These are the places where there is money, jobs, influence especially with policymakers, and people with paid time to campaign, organise and act for a better world. Many…
How your organisation employs people is at the heart of its commitment to equality. The advert, application form, interview, the practical test (if you have one) and how you manage probation periods is an opportunity to address internal inequality and…
Guest post by Jon Alexander, co-author of Think Of Me As Evil? Sir Martin, As one of the authors of the report you cited in your recent piece on advertising, I want to respond to your comments, and to invite you…
Guest blog by Lara Kirch and Micha Narberhaus at Smart CSOs. As we have experienced in the Smart CSOs community over the last two years, changing an organisation to work on system change is far from an easy task. Most civil society organisations are…
Tom Crompton at TEDxExeter, which should obviously been TEDxeter.
People who cut their carbon footprint because they’re worried about climate change are ‘environmental’ types, right? They love ‘nature’ and get fired up by those photos of polar bears stranded on melting ice. They might even rate ‘protecting the environment’…
Che Guevara said that “the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love”. But not just any love, the love of humanity that transcends the day to day love of individuals (our family for example).[ref]Che Guevara, Man and Socialism,…
Rajesh Makwana came to one of our workshops in January and kindly allowed us to repost this article, originally published at Shareable. We are all painfully familiar with the plethora of statistics that illustrate how unsustainable modern lifestyles have become…