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PEPY on CNN, Beyond Profit, and Emirates Woman Magazine
From Scale to Collaboration [and the Ever-Present Topic of Voluntourism]
Last month we were fortunate enough to contribute our voice to a range of respected publications.
As a guest columnist on the social enterprise website beyondprofit.com, Daniela presented her thoughts on the issue of scale in social enterprise, highlighting the importance of attention to quality of work over expansion of an organization. In her article entitled “Much Ado about Scale”, Daniela emphasizes the benefits of a smaller organization in philanthropic efforts, pointing to a possible contradiction between an organization’s impact and its profitability. Stating that “scale can often dilute impact,” Daniela encourages readers to reconsider process over product.
Meanwhile in Emirates Woman magazine, journalist Linda Bassett reported on organizations’ collaborative efforts to restore education in Cambodia. Depicting the mutual aid between PEPY and the international organization Dubai Cares, Bassett illustrates the importance of organizations’ collaboration rather than competition in working to improve the scope of education in Cambodia. Bassett relates PEPY’s overall narrative from day one to present, starting from our beginning in 2005 and walking through the evolution to current programs and initiatives. Read the article here.
Finally, PEPY was featured on the homepage of CNN online in an article entitled “Finding volunteer trips that actually help”. In the article, CNN acknowledges the potential negative impact of voluntourism, encouraging a more realistic approach to the practice. The article stresses the importance of prioritizing community needs over the desires of the transitory volunteer as one important best practice among voluntourism operators.
Beyond Profit
The most recent issue of Beyond Profit Magazine features an article about scale written by Daniela Papi, PEPY's Executive Director. Click here to read Daniela's article or visit Beyond Profit's website to subscribe to their social enterprise magazine. On their site they also have a blog featuring interesting social ventures and ideas from around the world. We love their work and are delighted for the chance to be associated with their magazine! Read up!
More PEPY press
This has been a great week for PEPY press!
You may remember that back in September PEPY were announced as one of the three winners of the 2009 Geotourism Challenge alongside Nature Air and Wikiloc (two great companies – check them out). We only got there because of your support so once again THANK YOU!
This week tonic.com, a funky happiness-driven online media company that seeks out all the goodness in the world, covered National Geographic's Geotourism Summit 2010 where all of the Geotourism finalists were honored. Our director, Daniela Papi, was brought to the USA to join the summit and she said she has learned a lot to bring back to us when she returns next week! Look out for a post from her soon highlighting what she has learned and the inspiring people she was able to meet. Thanks again to Ashoka Changemakers and National Geographic for this fabulous honor and once again, THANK YOU for getting us there!
A glimpse of what the future can be...
This week PEPY had a visitor! We were lucky enough to be joined for a few days by Jerri Chou. Inspired by the amazing people she has met, and the wonderful things she has seen, Jerri has one simple desire in life. She wants to change the world and she wants to empower others to do the same. (Sound familiar? That's because it's OUR GOAL TOO!) And that is exactly what she's doing.
Jerri is the founder of TBD, a free weekly newsletter that delivers "one world-shaking idea and one collective action to improve our future”. The features in TBD range from ways to make your voice heard by the people who never seem like they're listening, to companies who are turning scary corporate big guns into soft loveable teddy bears, to programs which give social entrepreneurs a leg up in the big bad world. TBD looks for organizations that are making a positive impact in the world and shares it with all their like-minded supporters who won't just sit back and do nothing. Most recently, TBD found PEPY.
We are really honored to have been featured and were delighted to have the opportunity to meet with Jerri this week. We strongly encourage you all to sign up for your TBD newsletter and find out about ways to improve your own future!
Tips for Travelers Looking to Volunteer Abroad
This is an article, which appeared on yourtravelchoice.org. It is an interview with Daniela about her thoughts on what someone who is thinking about volunteering should consider. It also speaks to some of
our ethos and learnings at PEPY Tours. Read on!
Considering Voluntour-ing? Tips for Travelers – Daniela Ruby Papi, PEPY Tours
Wondering what it’d be like to participate in a voluntourism trip? Interested in making a difference through travel but not sure where to start? This week, TIES asked Daniela Ruby Papi of PEPY Tours and Danielle Weiss of Planeterra Foundation for their insights into on-the-ground voluntourism experiences and some advice for travelers interested in learning more about voluntourism.
Read on to find out what voluntourism means to Daniela and PEPY Tours!
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