Philanthropy of Community Instrument 1: Asset Inventory Mapping (PAIM)

This is one of several instruments which have been developed to deepen the practice of grantmakers, using the lens of philanthropy of community (PoC).It is useful formapping of community assets

Philanthropy of Community Instrument 2: Measuring and Valuation of Assets (PMVA).

This is one of several instruments which have been developed to deepen the practice of grantmakers, using the lens of philanthropy of community (PoC). It is useful for measurement and validation of community assets

Poor Philanthropist III: A Practice-relevant Guide for Community Philanthropy

This is a guide for a research study carried out between 2003 and 2005, the purpose of which was to explore the local ethos of caring and sharing in poor African communities.This guide is intended to assist grantmakers and funders working with impoverished communities in applying a PoC lens to their practice

Philanthropy of Community Instrument 3: Impact Monitoring and Evaluation (PIME)

PIME is one of several instruments which have been developed to deepen the practice of grantmakers using the lens of philanthropy of community (PoC)

Poor Philanthropist II: New approaches to sustainable development

The second title in the Poor Philanthropist Series, this monograph represents the culmination of a six-year journey; a journey characterised in the first three years by in-depth qualitative research which resulted in an understanding of philanthropic traditions among people who are poor in southern Africa and gave rise to new and innovative concepts which formed the focus of the research monograph The Poor Philanthropist: How and Why the Poor Help Each Other, published by the Southern Africa-United States Centre for Leadership and Public Values in 2005

Gauging the horizontality of community philanthropy organizations: The development and validity testing of an instrument

This thesis sets out to develop an instrument to gauge the behaviour of a community philanthropy organization (CPO) and then to test its validity. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the Horizontality Gauge (HG) offers a process by which organizations can assess the extent to which their behaviour favours either the ways in which the international aid system prefers to work (with an exogenous orientation) or those of the community it serves (taking an endogenous approach), which is the orientation professed in its model. When applied, the instrument is intended to facilitate self-correction, with the potential to contribute to organizational development (OD) and improved performance. The instrument is made up of a questionnaire and a group interview. It produces data in the form of Likert scale scores (quantitative) as well as qualitative evidence in the form of narrative illustrations of organizational behaviour and respondent judgement of scores. The thesis draws on the concepts of the philanthropy of community (PoC) theory, in particular those related to the norms of self-help and reciprocity among the poor in southern Africa, in the context of the four elements of an organization as described in the work of Wilkinson-Maposa and Fowler (2009), and Porras and Hoffer (1986). It also adapts and applies the multi-level systematic framework for validating a research instrument developed by Adcock and Collier (2001), as modified by Lutz (2012). The secondary contribution of this study involves the refinement of the PoC theory and the further testing of an existing framework in the emerging field of validation in mixed methods research (MMR). The HG was tested using the cases of five CPOs in South Africa. The findings show that it satisfies the assessment validation criteria of trustworthiness offered by Lincoln and Guba (1985) and researchers, donors and community philanthropy organizations can therefore use it with confidence and assurance. However, further refinements of the instrument are indicated. Specifically, insights problematize the vertical (the exogenous) in light of the domestication of funding in South Africa and call into question the ease with which the user can access and interpret the gauge as presented visually on a behaviour arc

Poor Philanthropist IV: A Handbook for Community Philanthropy Organisations

This handbook endeavours to expand the community philanthropy toolkit. It uses case stories to illustrate how a dimension of community grant making practice can be changed by using a PoC lens and then offers a practical set of instruments and templates that programme-level staff can use and adapt in their practice when working directly with communities

How Treatment Partners Help: Social Analysis of an African Adherence Support Intervention

Treatment partnering is an adherence intervention developed in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper describes the additional social functions that treatment partners serve and shows how these functions contribute to health and survival for patients with HIV/AIDS. Ninety-eight minimally structured interviews were conducted with twenty pairs of adult HIV/AIDS patients (N = 20) and treatment partners (N = 20) treated at a public HIV-care setting in Tanzania. Four social functions were identified using inductive, category construction and interpretive methods of analysis: (1) encouraging disclosure; (2) combating stigma; (3) restoring hope; and (4) reducing social difference. These functions work to restore social connections and reverse the isolating effects of HIV/AIDS, strengthening access to essential community safety nets. Besides encouraging ARV adherence, treatment partners contribute to the social health of patients. Social health as well as HIV treatment success is essential to survival for persons living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa