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brentxphillips

-16 karma · joined April 5, 2013

Former United Nations staff-person and field logistician passionate about humanitarian operational financing and the humanitarian application of crowdfunding.

My colleagues and I are building the first and only crowdfunding platform serving the professional humanitarian community supporting operations and operational innovation. Ours is a non-profit initiative staffed entirely by volunteers being developed as an open-source project based on design criteria provided by humanitarian actors themselves.

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brentxphillips··on We Make Mistakes
So how would YC classify passing over interviewing former United Nations staff working on reducing the turnaround time and effort it takes aid groups to raise funds to develop, launch and sustain operations responding to the worst humanitarian crises the world has seen in an era? Does this fit in the mistake category or the we’re just naively stupid and don’t have the time to bother spending 5 minutes hearing about your project category?

Aid groups are choking on sheltering and feeding millions of refugees streaming out of Syria and Iraq but who gives a fuck?