Avantika Taneja
Go-Givers Research and Evaluation Coordinator
Posts by Avantika
Indulging in some meta-reflection: evaluating how we evaluate
Monday 4 July 2011A mentor once offered me this nugget during one of many iterations of my quarter-life crisis: ‘find where head and heart intersect…and stay there’. A rather lofty guiding principle. But it’s possible that through conducting evaluation research for Go-Givers, I have.
I’ve spent a good part of the last few months poring over [...]
From beneficiary to benefactor: Go-Givers take small steps towards a Big Society
Thursday 27 January 2011Children, among the ‘cuddliest’ of causes, in the language of the sector, are most often on the receiving side of philanthropy. We are less primed to think of them as the givers - of time, talent, and funds - to ‘cuddly’ and ‘non-cuddly’ causes alike.
However, the recently published Giving Green Paper poses the question, how [...]
Secondary Students Lead their Younger Peers in Carnivalesque Campaign
Wednesday 14 July 2010When Marguerite and I arrived at the auditorium at the Romsey School in Hampshire, we entered a world of organised chaos. Like elves in a workshop, over 40 primary pupils guided by 20 of their secondary school peers were busily cutting, gluing, measuring, designing and fitting.
In the background, a projector [...]
Listen to building, listen to the children
Thursday 10 June 2010“Listen to the building” is one of many messages inscribed onto the interior surfaces of 19 Princelet Street. This unassuming address off Brick Lane houses the Museum of Immigration and Diversity that is holding rare public openings for the upcoming Refugee Week, 13th – 20th June.
So what are the stories contained in its walls that [...]