How to Kill Your Charity (Yes, That's a Good Thing): Eric Stowe at TEDxSeattle
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Eric Stowe is the Founder and Director of Splash (www.splash.org), an international nonprofit dedicated to clean water for kids living in urban poverty. This quickly scaling organization ensures safe water daily for more than 250,000 children in orphanages, schools, shelters, and hospitals in 7 countries- and Splash will soon be doing so for more than 1 million children. More important than getting safe water flowing, though, Splash is keenly focused on making sure their projects last by building the local businesses and support that will replace their charity for the long haul. Splash thus wants to be one of the first water organizations to achieve long term success by "killing their organization" in every country they work in.
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Wonderful to hear how Splash is approaching sustainability and sees putting itself out of business, so to speak, as an indicator for success. More nonprofits would benefit from approaching their work in this way.
Great piece, Eric! Funny, humble and as always, "right." So proud to call you a friend.
Couldn't be said better Eric! Thank you for your vision and leadership.
Great job Eric, what I have seen in Africa is that charities or non-profits rarely solve the problem I think it's a form of job security for them.
Eric, this TED Talk is provocative on so many levels including the questioning of assumptions about self and the adequacy of good intentions. It's got me thinking hard. Best of luck with Splash!
Important message for leaders in the non-profit sector as well as funders. Splash's entrepreneurial, sustainable approach to eliminating themselves is a great example!
Fantastic and important message Eric. The world needs more leaders like you.
Thank you for all the great work on behalf of so many children and their communities as well. Respecting and empowering local communities is a powerful influence! Hope your insights and wise approach spreads.
Great job, Eric. A good soul-searching message for all charity leaders: Are we co-creating models, with the benefiting population, that actually solve something? Or, are we just perpetuating a cycle that fuels dependency and us feeling good about ourselves?
Eric, you are one of a kind...Keep going man!!!
Eric Stowe, let me tell you this. You are an amazing human being. Any word that I can type here for you would be short. I will follow you, because the spark I saw in your eyes and words. I believe in you. I believe in your vision. I wish you the best for the years to come. Your character and passion are an inspiration for the generations to come in the entire world. Congratulations and please never loose the perspective you already have. Congratulations.
I love this talk and I embrace Eric's message. "Kill our charities" = "completed our missions."
It's so important to understand the personal agendas of leaders and board members of certain charities which I talk about in my upcoming book The Giving Game. Eric's message needs to be embraced. At the end of the day the goal is to make a different and empower the communities we are trying to change to grow and flourish
Eric, you lay out this case so clearly. I have full confidence that you and your team will reach your goal of putting yourself out of a job -- for the best possible reason. I'm proud to be a Splash supporter and your ally in that goal.
Did he do it?
Great work and message, Eric. That is a powerful message whose time has come. Keep pushing forward!!
You nailed it ~ A highly courageous topic, with true quality to support it, and eloquently delivered! Wow, man. Rock on.
Charity became "Charity". Good Job Eric :)
Great work Eric! Always appreciate how you think about your work.
If more charities approached their causes from this perspective, perhaps we might truly begin to see change. I fear too many charities focus on how to maintain their "business" and too little time endeavoring to make themselves obsolete by equipping local entities to implement and maintain real change. Thanks for taking a bold stand Eric - excellent talk.
Great stuff from Eric Stowe! I'm thankful for the challenge he provides to those of us who are charity leaders to pursue justice and to work toward an end goal - not to sustain our organizations, but to "kill" them by ultimately handing over the reins to the people we serve. All non-profit leaders and donors should watch this and, in response, demand from ourselves a much higher standard.
Great Job Eric. Its inspiring and motivating to listen to the presentation. keep continuing these messages....
Thanks for the great news. Namaste🙏
Inspired
Great talk - and funny. I hope this opens up a much needed debate on the role of NGOs in WASH service provision.
that is a beautiful thing listening to children laughing
Oh ya please help financially
While I appreciate the work all these charities do in these nation, they give the governments of these nations a scapegoat a way of still being in power while not having to appeasing the general population as these charities will do all the hard work. Things like clean water should be a government issue that gets the population angry enough to overthrow regimes. I know it sounds cruel but less reliance on the first world more reliance on themselves.
"Safe drinking water for every single orphanage in China." - Within one year, China will overtake the US as the number one economy in the world.
well said
21,050th lets go
250th