- Value people over projects, and effectiveness over good intentions. Hold in tension a humanitarian ethic of service and a professional ethic of competence. Good international development is competent service guided by good principles and done through good practice.
RSS Link
Share This!
Social Network
Follow me at Twitter: AaronAusland or Facebook: Staying For Tea-
Recent Posts
- The Culturally-Sensitive Butt:
- LinkedIn turns attention to Volunteerism
- The Development & Aid Blogger Survey
- Badly Presented Data
- Generation X and Volunteerism – nuancing the “hero” status
- Volunteerism and Employment: the surprising relationship
- El primer Principio de Desarrollo Internacional Basado en la Comunidad
- Staying for Tea: coming to you soon ¡en español!
Categories
Twitter Feed
- Why's this so good? Self-deprecation, laughter, learning, and thinking. Thanks U of O journalism. http://t.co/RZgPkUAm 3 weeks ago
- RT @intldogooder: How are the game changers spending their time? My take on the future of INGOs for @thebrokeronline http://t.co/WWA53eW ... 1 month ago
- 'Citizens United' Backlash: Montana Supreme Court Upholds State's Corporate Campaign Spending Ban http://t.co/BG1BnO8E via @huffingtonpost 1 month ago
- The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives - Forbes http://t.co/EIVUJ1Jk 1 month ago
- The case for economics http://t.co/fmIsVDnt 1 month ago
Top Rated
Blogroll
- A Humourless Lot
- A View From The Cave
- Aid Thoughts
- AIDWATCH
- Barefoot Economics
- Blood and Milk
- Bottom Up Thinking
- Center for Global Development
- Chris Blattman
- Dani Rodrik
- Develop Economies
- Dispatches
- Good Intentions are Not Enough
- Hauser Center
- How Matters
- Ideas for Development
- Lessons I Learned
- Practically Green
- ShotgunShack
- Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like
- Tales From the Hood
- The Discomfort Zone
- The Wine Economist
- Wait… What?
- Wanderlust
- Wronging Rights
Webpages to Visit
Author Archives: stayingfortea
The Culturally-Sensitive Butt:
on language, food, humility, and humor. A Swiss man, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Americans are waiting. “Entshuldigung, können Sie Deutsch sprechen?” he asks. The two Americans just stare at him. “Excusez-moi, parlez vous … Continue reading
Posted in Just for Fun, service ethics
Tagged cultural sensitivity, food, foreign, humor, language, travel
15 Comments
LinkedIn turns attention to Volunteerism
Survey Says, “Your Volunteer Experience Matters” LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network released the results this morning* of a survey of nearly two thousand professionals in the U.S. and found that 89% have volunteering experience, but only 45% include this … Continue reading
The Development & Aid Blogger Survey
In the past few years, a lot of new aid and development blogs have been launched, including this one. A few of the bloggers have joined together to create a small survey to learn more about who reads these blogs, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Badly Presented Data
One of my pet peeves is badly visualized or explained data. I’ve read evaluation reports where it literally felt like the person just randomly pushed graph command buttons over Excel data tables and where the explanatory text was totally unyoked … Continue reading
Posted in Just for Fun
Tagged charts, data, Edward Tufte, funny, graphs, visualizing data
2 Comments
Generation X and Volunteerism – nuancing the “hero” status
A couple of days ago I published a graph showing that Gen Xers have increased their rates of volunteerism over the past 5-6 years, while the rates of the Baby Boomers and Millennials decreased. (See full post here.) Being that … Continue reading
Posted in Volunteering
Tagged community-volunteer, Gen X, Generation-X, volunteer-lifecycle, volunteering, Volunteering-in-America, volunteerism
1 Comment
Volunteerism and Employment: the surprising relationship
Volunteerism: it’s not a function of spare time! We know that people volunteer when they have both the heart for it and the resources for it, but which resource is more important, time or money? I would have thought that time … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Volunteering
Tagged Bureau-of-Labor-Statistics, employment, Generation-X, participation-rates, unemployment, volunteerism
5 Comments
Staying for Tea: coming to you soon ¡en español!
ENGLISH As I’ve been tracking the location of my subscribers, I’ve noticed a funny thing. I’ve got more readers of this blog from Cambodia, India, and Vanuatu than I do from Bolivia, Colombia, and Guatemala – places where I’ve actually … Continue reading
Posted in En Español
5 Comments
A Staying for Tea Story: India 2006
As the depth of my hypocrisy sunk in, I struggled to contain my emotions. “Tell her ‘yes, and I’ll be right back,’” I instructed my translator, as shame deepened the red of my sun-baked ears. Turning to my small entourage … Continue reading
Staying for Tea – Conclusion
We should not be paralyzed by the fear of committing errors, but we should be self-conscious and think critically about how we go about serving others. This is the final post of a 6-part series republishing the original Staying for Tea article from The Global … Continue reading
Posted in Faith Perspective, service ethics, Storytelling, Voluntourism
1 Comment
