Opinion: In the fierce competition for funding, nonprofits often rely on vanity metrics to sell their effectiveness — numbers that sound impressive and convince donors to give, but don’t always reflect the real value of a charity’s work. Robin Pierro phlnthrp.com/3HbTVLv

Sustainable social change takes time, and it doesn’t always produce the metrics donors expect or want. Its time to change the narrative about what impact looks like. Robin Pierro writes in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. philanthropy.com/article/charit…

“Lasting social change doesn’t happen overnight. It requires long-term investments and constant learning. And if it has any hope of lasting, it must be led by the communities who are actually affected by the work.” Robin Pierro writing in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. philanthropy.com/article/charit…

Donors must look past metrics to assess the effectiveness of an organisation. Creating sustainable social change doesn’t always result in easy (or big) numbers. More from me on why we need to change the narrative about what impact looks like: philanthropy.com/article/charit…

💥We name US, UK & Irish fossil fuel contractors providing essential drilling & other services to Myanmar’s gas field operators after the coup. Billions made from these gas fields flows to the Myanmar junta who violently seized power two years today. 🧵 theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…

We’re pleased to announce Gabriela Bucher Gabriela Bucher, current ED of Oxfam International, as our next president and CEO! She will begin her appointment on May 29, 2023. Read our full statement on this exciting announcement: bit.ly/3kOVnfe

I'm looking forward to joining The Fund for Global Human Rights and meeting a team of passionate colleagues who connect with innovative & effective activists and support them in building successful movements for change.

"Nonprofits must do more to communicate how sustainable change is achieved, and donors must look past metrics to find other ways to assess the effectiveness of an organization." Robin Pierro The Fund for Global Human Rights

Launched today! The website of our new philanthropic initiative, Civic Futures, co-founded with Funders Initiative for Civil Society. In our first blog post FICS director Poonam Joshi & I explore where we’ll see the use of the #SecurityPlaybook closing civic space in 2023. civic-futures.org

Great piece from Robin Pierro from The Fund for Global Human Rights in The Chronicle of Philanthropy on vanity metrics…as ever, the perils of egos, logos, silos & halos…we need to stop peddling a false narrative around change & measure what matters #ShiftThePower

🔖What we are reading: In a fierce competition for funding, nonprofits often rely on vanity metrics to sell their effectiveness. Numbers that sound impressive & convince donors to give but dont always reflect the value of a charity’s work philanthropy.com/article/charit… by Robin Pierro

"Nonprofits must do more to communicate how sustainable change is achieved, & donors must look past metrics to find other ways to assess the effectiveness of an organization." Robin Pierro on what sustainable change really looks like & how to achieve it. ow.ly/syQR50MQJSb

7 years since the assassination of Honduran environmental activist and Lenca #Indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres We join her family, community and other #RiverDefenders around the world in honoring her life and demanding #JusticiaParaBerta Follow COPINH #BertaCaceres

Ned Kelly Emeralds is an Iranian man who arrived in Australia by boat in 2013 and has been trapped in detention ever since. He has suffered serious harm as a result. Today he took his fight to the High Court and we're representing him. A 🧵 hrlc.org.au/news/2023/05/1…

💵The sovereign debt crisis is damaging lives of ordinary people in many African countries. This is a new series led by our Warren Thompson. We need YOUR help to show how & where cuts to budgets are hitting public services. Get in touch! 🙏 financeuncovered.org/stories/what-i…

How can funders actively support the land rights & environmental stewardship of Indigenous Peoples at the heart of the #climatecrisis? Fred Nelson, @JessicaSweidan, Torbjørn Gjefsen, Bryson Ogden @Ran9erB & Solange Bandiaky-Badji on moving from pledges to action ssir.org/articles/entry…

South Australia has a long and proud history of peaceful protest. But the SA government's proposed anti-protest laws are putting our rights at risk. These laws are not just anti-protest, they're anti-people. We urge Peter Malinauskas to withdraw. @DavidHRLC #ProtectProtest

It’s not every day a journalist takes on his former president in the courts. Warren Thompson is part of a team challenging disgraced Jacob Zumba to disclose his tax returns. Top court judges have had their say financeuncovered.org/stories/jacob-…

Just six years after Ghana introduced free secondary schooling, its ability to train new teachers is severely compromised because the country's debt repayments are SO high. How and why did this happen? Check out the latest blog by our Warren Thompson financeuncovered.org/stories/explai…

Proud to be involved in helping this important film by John-Allan Namu and Africa Uncensored on how Kenya is so #Indebted, it can't pay its public sector workers on time. Check out Part One 👇