World Bank #OpenData Open Forum video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Where am I? I'm in San Francisco, participating in two conversations in DC that are happening in two different auditoriums at World Bank. In one of the auditoriums in DC, Hans Rosling is participating via video stream. (Twitter is not working at this
marketsforgood.com - keeping the conversation going A few days ago I wrote "Speeches, listening and learning" about how I try to integrate the many sources of information out there and weave together various conversations and data sources. Some suggested that in doing this I am playing the network weaver role. Many folks emailed me
$500,000 dollars for Jewish Interactive Media Three of the nation's largest Jewish foundations - the Righteous Persons Foundation, the Jim Joseph Foundation, and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation have put out a challenge to the entire Jewish community - especially folks who are part of it but don't identify as
Speeches, listening, and learning (From Maira Kalman, Next Stop Grand Central) I give a lot of speeches. From an efficiency standpoint, I'm really bad at them. I refuse to package up a set of slides and repeat my canned comments, anywhere to anyone. That's the way to be an efficient
The Dragonfly Effect - Book Review My favorite thing to do is read fiction. Left to my own devices, I'd walk the dogs and read novels for most of my waking hours (leaving time to try to change the world for the better also, of course). For the last few months I've
"Co -" the buzzword that keeps on buzzing (Photo: http://nyti.ms/93LfRT) Early last week I declared "Co-" philanthropy buzz -prefix #6 for 2010. This refers to Co - as in co-housing, co-working, co-creativity. I referrred in that post to the book, What's Mine is Yours,(WMIY) as the manual for this buzzword.
More on collaborative consumption, business as sharing I posted a review of What's Mine is Yours a few days ago, and used it to substantiate my declaration of "Co-" as buzzword number 6 for the year. Then along comes an email from a friend saying this: "This sounds a lot like the
Three random philanthropy in the media bits Last week Science Friday featured Tom Kalil of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) talking about prizes, prize philanthropy, and government challenges. Hear it here: science friday (HT @pbftwit) Doonesbury takes on the Giving Pledge: (Pictures may not render in email subscriptions - see blog on
Buzzword 2010.6 - actually just a prefix: Co- (http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/the-movement/) This is the first Buzz prefix in quite awhile - I think the last one was micro, way back in 2007. Buzzword 2010.6 is Co- as in co-housing, co-working, co-ops. "Co-" is also the second buzzword this year to come with its
Jonathan Franzen writes about philanthropy (http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20100823,00.html) Unless you've been under a rock lately you've heard about Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom. In fact, you could have been under a rock. However, if that rock happened to be in an
What can we create if we reorganize the creating? (http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/09/orchestra-innovation/) I know, I know, I've heard the old trope - "You've seen one foundation, you've seen one foundation." But that's not really true. * If you've seen one foundation
Philanthropic leadership and the tensions of change This is a 15 second time-lapse video of the aurora borealis from space. It's beautiful, fast, multi-dimensional, and both inexplicable and well understood. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=uiheRnGQGYI) I'm preparing a seminar on philanthropic leadership in our time. It
Seattle Foundation Giving Center CORRECTED INFORMATION FROM FIRST POST - SEE REVISIONS ON CREDIT CARD AND DIRECT DONATIONS The Seattle Foundation announced its new online giving site today. Community foundations have been rolling out this kind of information for several years now but this is different. Disrupting Philanthropy is all about this kind of
Buzzword 2010.5 - Charitywashing Charitywashing. Verb. Gaining the trust, good faith, or simply the business of customers by aligning your product with a charity. Often takes the form of statements that claim "...x% of sales of this object will be given to charity." See also embedded giving. The most egregious charitywashing practices
Philanthropy Buzzword 2010.4 - Curator Buzzwords seem to be coming along more slowly than in the past. Here it is August and we're only up to #4. We are wide open to submissions - feel free to tweet me (@p2173) or add to comments any buzz in philanthropy that you've noticed
Measuring success Several thoughts in the last few days have come together to prompt this post. I was thrilled to see that Disrupting Philanthropy was recommended as summer reading, along with Monitor's report What's Next for Philanthropy. What a nice shout out from Phil Buchanan and great company
Policy change over time at home and elsewhere I think it is pretty interesting that the Chinese have launched the China Foundation Center (CFC). A research center on philanthropy at Beijing Normal University also launched this year. Think about it - if you were the most populous country in the world, with one of the fastest growing economies
Gone fishing Well, no, not really. But I am going on vacation and will be offline for a week. Enjoy yourselves.
What kind of data are you talking about? I got this email from Dennis Whittle of GlobalGiving in response to this post on "new solutions from data and crowds." "I had my own aha! moment when reading your post. As you know from some of our discussions, I am resistant to the idea that more
Buzzword 2010.3 Networked We hear about networks all the time in every aspect of our lives. Network is a long overdue buzzword - but today is precisely the right day to declare it as such because June 21 marks the virtual launch of the must read manual on the topic, The Networked Nonprofit
Philanthropy and Public Policy I usually write about public policy that shapes philanthropy. But this notice in Mike Allen's Playbook newsletter of June 7, 2010 caught my attention on the much broader issue of philanthropy's role regarding public policies writ large. "TOM DASCHLE AND VICTORIA KENNEDY, the late senator&
FutureLab NetChange Week (#ncwk) is underway in Toronto, at the MaRS Discovery District. The MaRS Center is a location-based incubator, accelerator, learning community and set of tools that mix technology, innovation and social enterprise. NetChange Week is a conference + skills exchange + problem solving/brainstorm space. Beth Kanter gave the opening keynote,
New solutions from data and crowds I'm two-thirds of the way through Clay Shirky's new book - Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in the Connected Age - and I wasn't planning on writing about it until I was done. But in a perfect meta-example of both my point and the
Money chasing ideas Marketplaces. Ecosystems. Industries. Sectors. These are some of the names we use to describe philanthropy and nonprofits. All of them their have limits. For example, while competition for funding is a factor, there is not a true marketplace of nonprofits. While ecosystem is a friendlier metaphor, healthy ecosystems thrive on
Data as platform for improving health The innovation around data and social change continues - live today the Institute of Medicine, HHS and the White House are kicking off a new initiative to make health data more useful for people and communities. The event, which is being live-cast here, http://videocast.nih.gov, will feature new
