This is a transcript of a podcast discussion between two NGO leaders in Pakistan and India - Sarwar Bari and Manu Gupta - and Terry Gibson, author of ‘Making Aid Agencies Work’ Terry: I’m Terry Gibson: I previously worked at the Global Network for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) where I started to collaborate with both Manu and Sarwar. I now work independently. I have been working for a long time as a practitioner and also as a researcher in relation to civil society organizations and that has led me to write the book we are discussing today. Can I start by asking...

How can money build community and connection instead of division? This piece originally appeared on openDemocracy. “Gone to the Dogs,” Paul Higgins’ canine-friendly café in Carlisle, may seem an unlikely place to look for inspiration in transforming the ways we think about funding for social change. But through ‘pay-it-forward’ fundraising and ‘creative up-cycling’ to re-use resources, Higgins has made the café a center for community in which money builds connection instead of division - a radical reversal of the inequalities that lie at the heart of big philanthropy, foreign aid and government contracting. Here’s how it works: the café’s customers write their donations...