betterworldbooks A transition in embedded giving Maybe you are not done with talking about embedded giving, but I sure thought I was. Or hoped I was. After all, this was the buzzword without equal way back in 2007. But sure enough, I still get interview requests about the concept. I still get email pitches and PR
2010 Futures - add these to the curated list! You all are just amazing! As if the dozens of answers already noted to my question "What single idea, entity, practice, trend, force or innovation will matter most to the social sector in 2010? " weren't enough, here are more from twitter, sent to me via email
2010 Wither 2010: Your answers, curated! Last night my family and I had the great pleasure of hanging out with Beth Kanter and her family. Beth (@kanter) and I both have 9 year old sons named Harry - what other indicator do you need that we should get together? Among other things, we chatted about what
2010: what matters. Your answers (photo from http://healthyinfluence.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/white-green-tom-sawyer-sign.jpg) Last week I asked this question, on this blog and on twitter: “What trend, change, entity, or idea will matter most to the social sector in 2010?” Here are your answers. Thanks for sending them in. Please keep
Philanthropic Futures: 2010 What single idea, entity, practice, trend, force or innovation will matter most to the social sector in 2010? I'm collecting your answers and ideas to this question and will include them, with attribution, in a monograph on the future of philanthropy to be published Q4 in 2009. Sean
betterworldbooks BetterWorldBooks - record breaking gift I love this story. Regular readers of this blog will understand why. BetterWorldBooks, a very cool social enterprise, buys and resells books to raise funds for literacy programs around the world. Sometimes, they hit the jackpot. This happened today, when BWB finalized the sale of a rare 1848 facsimile of
acorn Items in the mirror may be closer than they appear I'm supposed to be doing something else, so my mind wandered over here. And here's my question. If anyone had bet you, on January 20th, 2009, the first day of the Obama Administration, that one of the more sordid scandals of the social sector in 2009
Decoding the Future Part Two: Clouds and Networks The plot so far: Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society changing philanthropy The project started with interviews, research, a paper and a wiki, rolls up to include discussions with invited experts and thoughtful challengers, continues to identify practical points for more experimentation and observation, and rolls out with your
benkler Thanks for helping "decode" (Note to my cherished email subscribers: I'm not sure why the email posts are suddenly truncated, I'm working on it. In meantime, the Title links in your email should be live and take you through to the blog itself. Thanks!) Thank you all who have been
Decoding the future of philanthropy Part One (redux) Apparently the email version of this post got truncated (ahh, technology) so I'm posting it again. This is part one - much more to come....I'm going to try to weave together several themes in this post. Since I am famous for "burying the lead&
Decoding the future of philanthropy I'm going to try to weave together several themes in this post. Since I am famous for "burying the lead" I'm going to get to the point and then begin weaving. * The point: data are the new platform for change. They will continue to
Nonprofit Mapping Nonprofitmapping.org is a GREAT new example of data as a platform for change. Here's what the folks behind NonprofitMapping are trying to do: "NonProfitMapping.org will transform previously inaccessible data sets into useful knowledge than can be made broadly available using the Web, geospatial mapping tools,
Acumen Fund Metastasizing Metrics: Panel summary from SoCap09 I had the honor of facilitating a session on metrics at last week's Social Capital Markets conference. I also had the duty of apologizing for the name of the session, which was Metastasizing Metrics. I didn't name it, I just moderated it. I've done
Social Capital Social Capital Markets Roundup I've just left the Social Capital Markets conference (#SoCap09) after 2.5 days of nonstop meetings, sessions, ideas, and energy. I'm literally running away to the woods for a few days camping and then I'm going underground for three days to continue writing the
Brad Smith How did we get here.... In some ways, "how did we get here" and "where are we going" are the key questions of this blog. In this post on technology and philanthropy, Brad Smith of the Foundation Center joins me - and we hope you'll jump in - to
Map the (social capital) Market - links should work NOTE: This is a re-post from yesterday, but with key links fixed (fingers crossed). Thanks to ALL of you who let me know that the mapping links weren't working - I hope this version will load. You get to the GSIX map at http://www.gsix.com/ Today
Acumen Fund Map the (social capital) Market Today the Global Social Investment Exchange - an emerging federation of social investment exchanges - launched an interactive, online map of the various players in this space. This is timed perfectly for the Second Annual Social Capital Markets Conference (#SoCap09) which runs from September 1-3 in San Francisco. The purpose
Information sharing (How) will technology change philanthropy? (how) will technology change philanthropy? This is a frequent topic of this blog, and also the subject of a piece of research and eventual article I've been working on for some time. The research has given me the excuse to talk to some of the most forward-looking people
NPR interview on embedded giving Here's the story that ran Wednesday morning on NPR's Morning Edition. Thanks to friends on twitter for alerting me to it - I turned off the radio one story too soon this morning! Tags: philanthropy, embeddedgiving, npr
Social Networking philanthropy policy Philanthropy Policy Project Mind Map Lots of positive response to this post about building a crowd-informed Philanthropy Policy Project. You can join the conversation on twitter at #philpo. Here's a rough cut mind map of the policy domains that matter: Here's a link Policies that influence Philanthropic Giving where you can
Bernard Madoff Philanthropy Policy Project The most recent complete review of regulations, policies and practices for the nonprofit sector (of which I am aware) was the 2005-2006 Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, hosted by Independent Sector, which produced a first report with 120 recommendations and a supplemental report a year later. Since then we'
Conferences that Matter Fall Edition 2009.2.1 Back in the Spring I wrote about some conferences that matter to philanthropy. That list can be found here. As we head into autumn we approach the second great conference season of the year - here is my Fall list of conferences that matter. Let me make something clear at
kalman Where change comes from-part 1.5 I've been working long hours, traveling and volunteering 5+ hours a day for the last many many weeks on an event that will take over San Francisco next week. I've been too fried to blog. I'm now stuck in JFK, which is usually very
Wither giving in 2009? Everyone wants to know - will 2009 be better or worse than 2008 when it comes to philanthropy? I had the opportunity to hear Brad Smith (The Foundation Center) and Bob Ottenhoff (Guidestar) talk about this yesterday. You can catch some of it here from twitter. The Guidestar report referenced
california California budget - foundation dependent? (photo by Jeff Keen, Flickr, Creative Commons) I live in California. In the 19 years I've lived here the state has been late in approving a budget more times than not. Developing a state budget is a game - literally - you can play it here on the
