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Nick Scott
New York, NY
Assistant to the Publisher at Philanthropy News Digest, a service of the Foundation Center. Recently lived in London, where I received my M.A. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and East Jerusalem, where I volunteered with an NGO called Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy. Read more of my work at: http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/author/nickscott/ and contact me at nps@foundationcenter.org
Interests: My interests include international philanthropy, development, and civil society.
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Great point that has largely been lost in other aspects of the Kony 2012 controversy. There is much to criticize about the content of Invisible Children's advocacy, but there is nothing inherently wrong with having advocacy at the heart of its mission. Good nonprofits are often unfairly maligned for having too much "overhead" without thought being given to what they actually do.
Commented Mar 13, 2012 on Kony 2012: The Great Product Debate at PhilanTopic
Kony 2012: The Great Product Debate
(Paul Shoemaker is executive director of Social Venture Partners Seattle and recently was named one of the "Top 50 Most Influential People in the Non-Profit Sector" by The NonProfit Times. In his last post, he wrote about non-financial capital as a driver of social change.) Most of us have hear...
Interesting that @RedCross now has 560,000+ Twitter followers, more than twice the number they had when the incident happened ~8 months ago. I wonder how much of a boost the #gettingslizzerd Tweet provided...
Commented Nov 2, 2011 on The Sustainable Nonprofit: What to Do When All Eyes Are on You at PhilanTopic
The Sustainable Nonprofit: What to Do When All Eyes Are on You
(Jane Jordan-Meier is the founder of Jane Jordan & Associates, a boutique training, coaching, and advisory firm in Northern California. Her book on media crisis management, The Four Highly Effective Stages of Crisis Management: How to Manage the Media in the Digital Age, was published in May. Yo...
Thanks for the comment David. I would argue that certain provisions of the Patriot Act make it difficult for foundations or NGOs to operate in conflict zones out of fear of inadvertently providing designated terrorist groups with "material support", but that is probably a side issue in this case.
There is no question that the problem is al-Shabaab and a weak Somali Transitional Federal Government that is unable to reassert control over the southern parts of the country. But given that reality, we have to weigh the benefits of deploying aid to the region against the risk of it directly or indirectly benefiting al-Shabaab.
Commented Jul 21, 2011 on As Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia Intensifies, U.S. Relaxes Aid Policy at PhilanTopic
As Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia Intensifies, U.S. Relaxes Aid Policy
(Nick Scott is assistant to the publisher at PND. In his last post, he wrote about the implications of the Patriot Act on U.S. disaster relief efforts in the Horn of Africa.) In a post last week, I criticized the Patriot Act's "material support" clause for rigidly preventing U.S. development a...
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