In our ongoing series on the topic of Gifts-in-Kind and how that resource fits into the broader work of community development, we recently posted responses to Response to GIK discussion and 100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl. Continuing that conversation, today’s post covers the questions raised by a number of people, including Saundra Schimmelpfennig and William Easterly, on the financial costs and benefits of shipping shirts and the utility of those shirts to recipients. Specifically we are addressing the following topics:
* The cost of getting a shirt to a recipient
* The value of a similar shirt in the recipient’s local clothing market compared with the costs for shipping a donated...
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Basic overview of World Vision’s strategy and structure and our U.S. GIK operations
This post was written in response to Response to GIK discussion, and 100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl
The intent of this post is to provide a basic overview of World Vision’s strategy and structure and our U.S. GIK operations. Over the following week we will address the following key issues:
* The financial costs and benefits of sending GIK overseas.
* The use of GIK in development programming.
* Evaluations of projects with direct provision of goods, including GIK.
* Standards for GIK implementation and accounting, including fair market value calculations
* The influence of overhead rate calculations on organizational decisions.
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Equal opportunity = a brighter future for us all
In January, I celebrated my grandson’s first birthday, a momentous event joined by grandparents, parents, sisters, and friends. An abundant variety of food and a stack of brightly-colored presents waited in the living room for my grandson, whose lack of understanding of opening gifts gave his older sisters a chance to show him how it’s done. Needless to say, my grandkids don’t lack creature comforts or love, and the opportunities available to them are endless. But I know that’s not the case for many children growing up in impoverished communities, even in the United States. More than 8 million families in the United States live in poverty, defined as a family of four living on less than $22,050 annually. Parents...
Response to GIK discussion
This post was written in response to 100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl
Dear Readers:
Well, after spending the past three days talking with World Vision staff in international programs, corporate engagement and gifts-in-kind operations, I can tell you that your criticisms and comments have sparked some good internal discussion within the organization.
I would like to provide some additional specifics........
100,000 reasons to love the Super Bowl
Maybe you were one of the 151 million people to watch the Green Bay Packers victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in yesterday’s Super Bowl XLV. If you’re not a sports fan, surely you still enjoyed the cheeseburger sliders, nachos, great commercials, and good time with friends and family. Certainly, there is nothing quite like American football ......