New Orleans Packing for the flight to Nairobi over Sunday and Monday, I read with interest a piece in the times about the usual run of charges that companies were charging for use of credit and debit cards outside of the boundaries of the USA covered in the “Your Money” column in the Times by …
Category: Community Organizations International
Small Scotia Steps on Remittances
New Orleans Handling remittances from working immigrant families is such a lucrative business that progress is measured in very small steps. We were delighted to take one with Scotia Bank when they announced in Toronto that they were lowering costs for remittances from their account holders using a combination of their online access and a …
Services Suck I Guess
New Orleans I spend a lot of time (sweat and work, too!) thinking about how to build more sustainable organizations that are less donor driven especially to support international organizing, but indeed it’s a universal problem. Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article, “Mergers, Closings Plague Charities” by Shelly Banjo and S. Mitra Kalita …