http://blog.guidestarinternational.org/2010/03/10/can-the-citizen-philanthropist-cso-and-government-find-a-way-to-work-together/ Illuminating the work of the world's civil society organisations Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.guidestarinternational.org/2010/03/10/can-the-citizen-philanthropist-cso-and-government-find-a-way-to-work-together/#comment-83 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:25:17 +0000 http://blog.guidestarinternational.org/?p=507#comment-83 The CEO of GuideStar (US) just posted an article on the ‘Power of Stories’, which references a blog piece by Nicholas Kristof entitled “Advice for Saving the World”. It looks at why CSOs can better engage the public by telling the success stories of individuals and small groups of people rather than through focusing on massive groups, seemingly insurmountable problems and despair. This interesting social psychological analysis can also help to explain the rise in citizen philanthropy. See http://ceo.guidestar.org/2010/03/02/the-power-of-stories/ and http://blog.invisiblechildren.com/?p=3698

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