I just had the amazing opportunity to write an op-ed for Real Change, the local street newspaper in Seattle. It is essentially a distillation of the raw thoughts from this blog and the more nuanced critique I level in the academic article mentioned earlier (of which a new version is coming soon!).

Take a look here: Grass without roots: the dilemma of foreign funding for social change

And as always, tell me what you think! These ideas are always developing. To be sure, things are not quite as simple as I lay them out in the op-ed – there is a lot of nuance behind each point, but I feel strongly about the general thrust of article. The solutions too are not necessarily easy to implement, nor necessarily the only ones. Yet I’m convinced we can improve the situation. Baby steps, right?

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