The sun returns with its beauty, allowing me to enjoy the calm Latvian landscapes while traveling to work. What a privilege to admire the picturesque wild forests, vast snow white fields, and houses with pink sunrise-colored smoke rising from their chimneys. #SmallTownLiving #NordicLiving #NGOlife

It's never enough to bring in national realities in rhe meeting rooms of Brussels. Today had a great opportunity to speak on NGOs in civil protection in Latvia within experts' hearing on opinion requested by Polish Presidency. #NGOlife

Baltic unity goes beyond shared geopolitical interests—it’s about fostering genuine personal connections and mutual support. For example, helping to send baby essentials from Latvia to a colleague in Lithuania. #NGOlife #WomenLife

What connects women knitting in rural Latvia with girls in a distant village in Guatemala?
Today we uncovered shared challenges and cooperation possibilities in global education workshops in #Aglona and #Ludza.
(Btw the correct answer- they all learn Spanish 😉) #EduSky #NGOlife #glocalisation #SDG17

Sometimes, things are different than they seem. When you don’t have a big team behind you, preparing a 10-minute speech and 4 slides can take up to 2 hours.
Getting ready to head to Brussels where I am honoured to speak about NGOs in civil protection. #NGOlife #AllByYourself

Preparing my guest lecture on the work of NGOs for students at John Cabot University and including a picture of the Civic Space Openness Monitor, as I always do. It helps me appreciate the freedom I have and reminds me of my responsibility to make the world a better place however I can. #NGOlife

Sometimes I feel that my existence is trapped in the never-ending cycle of drafting project proposals and writing project reports. What a happy life it would be to spend my energy on delivering results rather than writting papers on what I want to do and what I have done. #NGOlife

Neugierig? Folge uns für Geschichten aus der Praxis, Einblicke in Projekte & globale Perspektiven. Let’s build something meaningful here. ✊🏼 #PublicHealth #NGOlife

Borbs give me strength, I'm giving an academic seminar this friday and I haven't done that in a hot minute. Kind of operating in a completely different world at the moment. #ngolife #newpi

*Throws some models and graphs into powerpoints full of caterpillar and warbler pictures*

I’ve discussed this ad hilarium using the hashtag #orphimex, which is really funny if you’re in the know! In the meantime, I suggest replacing the poverty porn images with pictures of the people running the NGOs, because they don’t think context matters! #Cambodia #NGOLife

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TODAY at 4:30 PM Pacific in #California:

LaborFest presents a panel discussion on Non-profits, #Union Organizing & Independent #Unions in #SanFrancisco

Find out more at tinyurl.com/m2azetc8

#NonprofitWorker #NGOLife

Die lauteste Meinung, hat oft nicht die leiseste Ahnung. #GremiensitzungAmLimit #ngolife

6/9 Here's the thing about development work - it isn't about checking boxes or hitting targets.

It's about actually changing lives.

Those indicators? They're meant to measure real impact, not creative writing skills.

#Development #ImpactMeasurement #NGOLife

4/9 Plot twist: People hand you attendance sheets for trainings that either:
• Never happened
• Lasted 15 minutes instead of the required hours
• Were signed by people who never showed up

The paperwork looks perfect. Reality? Not so much.

#Development #NGOLife #Ethics

3/9 Picture this: You're a monitoring officer at an aid organization. Your job? Make sure training programs are actually training people.

Simple enough, right?

narrator voice: “It was not simple.”

#Development #AidWork #NGOLife

4/7 You think FAANG stakeholder management is tough?

Wait until you have to explain p-values to:

A UN diplomat
Three government ministers
That legendary field worker who's seen it all
And someone's very opinionated grandmother

#DataScience #NGOlife #ImpactWork

1/7 Want to know what interviewing for data roles in NGOs is REALLY like?

Buckle up, because this isn't your typical "reverse a binary tree" tech interview.

This is where "Big Data" meets "Big Problems" - and I mean BIG problems...

#DataScience #SocialImpact #NGOlife