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Year's most creative fundraiser

(Poster on window of 826 Valencia pirate shop) OK, OK - it's only January 2nd - plenty of time for someone else to claim this award. But in the meantime, 826 Valencia's Spelling Bee for Cheaters wins my award for funniest/most creative fundraising idea of

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Change native to the digital world

(photo by kjarrett, Flickr, Creative Commons) I'm looking for examples of social change organizations that are totally native to the digital world. They were created in and around digital tools and they use these tools to manage their work, communication, programs, fund development - everything. The prevalence of

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What kind of philanthropic organization would you build?

(Creative Commons Photo By: Ambuj Saxena) ...Imagine a future in which high quality, informed, diverse, and meaningful data on nonprofits and change organizations, the work they do, and the impact they have is widely available, free or low cost, and comparable. What kind of community philanthropy organizations, or philanthropic organizations,

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Serialized thinking

I have been writing this blog since 2002. There are 000s of posts here. I'm looking for the right editor and publisher to work with me to turn some of this content into serialized pamphlets - separate book chapters if you will. I envision a series of short

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Philanthropy in the Cloud

I'm working on making more and more content available - so here is my presentation from the NTEN Conference. I was on a panel on philanthropy in the cloud convened by Steve Wright of The SalesForce.Com Foundation and with Lalitha Vaidyanathan of FSG-Social Impact Advisors. Here is

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Breaking new boxes

Photo by Cheryl Senter for The New York Times I'm trained as an historian so I like to put things into time boxes - the sixties, the 1300s, etc. Anthropologists put things into cultural boxes, sociologists into institutional or network boxes, statisticians into percentages, engineers into problem statements,

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Foundations - set your content free!

I am working on a book on information, knowledge and philanthropy. This is not news - I've been "working" on this since my last book in 2004. This is the year, I can feel it (Hey, if I can get to "inbox 0" I

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What the public sector might learn from philanthropy

This short piece from NPR interviews several foundation executives on the challenges of spending the dollars in the federal stimulus bill well. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101234127 "The art of doling out stimulus dollars" I was struck by the juxtaposition of the above

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It is not a recession, it is a restructuring

I've been thinking about this post since last November. Unfortunately, quite a few things have come between my thinking about it and my writing about it. I'm sitting here now, with 25 minutes to go before I know I'll be interrupted, to get some

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A call for abstracts

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS CanadaHelps is seeking workshop abstracts for oral presentations at the MyCharityConnects Conference, June 8-9, 2009 in Toronto. The conference is geared toward small and medium sized organizations. The focus - best practices for various online tools that enable increased fundraising and awareness. They are looking for speakers

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MoveOn takes on Madoff

MoveOn.org has joined forces with The Open Society Institute and Atlantic Philanthropies to raise funds for several organizations that were ripped off by Bernard Madoff. Here is the full text of the MoveOn letter announcing this effort, MoveOn's website is here: "Dear MoveOn member, You'

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Let's pitch Hollywood

Think "Craigslist + Kiva = ?" or "Twitter + United Way = ?" or "My.Barack.Obama + VolunteerMatch + WorldBank = ?" Now it's your turn. We can play on Twitter. I say "Salesforce" and you say "..." Or I say "vaccines" and you say "

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Change The Web 2009

Here I was, thinking about my 2008 end of year predictions and the last few buzzwords for the year when I get a tweet from Peter Deitz and - the next thing I know - its January 2009. Well not really, but it is in Peter's world. The

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Philanthropy calls to action

My post from Friday, better philanthropy, is about the future and what a better philanthropic system, industry, market, ecosystem (or all of the above) can look like, how it could work, and how individuals and enterprises would work within it. Since I initially put out this vision in 2004, many

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Multi-Media Philanthropic Platforms (Tech Roundup 2008.3)

The California Endowment is helping to make possible a live webcast of The Women's Conference tonight (Wednesday, October 22) from Long Beach. Check it out here. Participant Productions, the movie company funded by Jeff Skoll (also of the Skoll Foundation and SocialEdge) which brought us An Inconvenient Truth,

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Further reflections on SoCap 08

Are Social Markets here? I asked this question yesterday. I think they are very much emerging, in formation and in ten/twenty years will need little explanation. So, to a small degree, they are here. But they are still very new. We have a lot of influence over what they

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What’s online got to do with it?

On October 8, the Stanford Social Innovation Review will host a conference on online giving marketplaces. I’m thrilled to see these platforms are finally getting the attention they are due (and also delighted to be moderating one of the panel discussions). Over the years I’ve paid a lot

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Portfolio Data Management System

The social sector made a big jump forward yesterday with the announcement of the Portfolio Data Management System (PDMS). This set of software tools, powered by Acumen Fund, the Aspen Institute Network of Development Entreprenuers, Skoll Foundation, SalesForce.com Foundation, Google.org and about a dozen other organizations announced they

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Tech Roundup 2008.2

I'm on day 2 of a 14 day East Coast/European business trip so my posting schedule may be a bit jet lagged. That said, I just found this post over at SocialActions and realized I could skip ahead on an entire tech roundup simply by linking to

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The Evolution of Philanthropy Markets

And we're off...I wrote several months ago about how recommendation engines might work in philanthropy - donation dashboard has made this real. The site comes out of the Center for New Media at UC Berkeley and is based on collaborative filtering (similar to the Pandora music service)

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Let us hope it is not a buzzword - philanthropizza

Alternative definition of philanthropizza - that which must be provided to volunteers at all meetings...Tags: philanthropy, buzzwords

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International aid and philanthropy

My friend Tony Pipa sent me this thoughtful reflection on international aid and international philanthropy. He delicately raises some key questions about the distinctions between them, intended and perceived, past, current and future. He lets me off the hook for mistakes I made in this post, and gracefully suggests my

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More on cross-platform philanthropy

OK, I may be beating this into the ground, but two more items caught my attention that furthered my thinking on cross-platform philanthropy. * As if my ponderings on public media and cross-platform content weren't topical enough, yesterday I read that the NPR staple, "Car Talk" has