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Haiti - one year on

(email readers - please visit site directly to see video) Inside Disaster Trailer from PTV Productions on Vimeo. (Video from http://haiti-today.com/) One year ago today an earthquake devastated Port-Au-Prince and much of Haiti. Hundreds of thousands died, more were displaced. Lives, families, communities, infrastructure, businesses, schools, and government

cloud

Why don't foundations build a DocumentCloud?

(photo from http://imgs.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ybenjamin/index) I tweeted this question yesterday and quite a few people passed it on - Why don't foundations build a document cloud? What is a document cloud, you ask? DocumentCloud is an online resource of source documents for investigative

innovation

Life in 140 bit bits

I've been not blogging for the last month. For most of that time, I've been not working, not writing, not doing much of the stuff for which I'm known in my professional community.* On the rare moments during which I've tuned into

Prediction review

Alliance Magazine's December issue has several articles worth reading. The issue of the issue is "how far will they go" and it includes discussions and examples of foundations going "all out" to achieve their goals. Some of you will, no doubt, say "not

Give fast

Epic Change raised over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. Beth Kanter raised more than $2500 in 90 minutes for an organization for which she has long volunteered. Here are a list of reflections about how to do this - most cites lead to blogs.

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Headlines of a downturn

On Sunday The New York Times ran stories on philanthropy under the following headlines: Charities Fear Cuts Will Wound the Needy In Downturn, Charities Face Needs of Their Own Nonprofits Say Needs Are Great, Cash Is Short Charities Struggling With Their Own Needs Billionaire Offers Arts Bailout in Los Angele

buzzword2008

Networks, metrics, levers, buzzwords

I'm nearing the end of my second to last multi-week road trip of 2008. Way too much travel... Need to go home... Can not think, let alone write, anymore... What follows are notes. * Way back in May I wrote about a paper on Working Wikily from the Packard

causewired

Wire your cause

cross posted from justmeans In addition to bringing change to the White House, the Obama Presidential Campaign brought social media to the forefront of community activism. If you weren’t already a believer in the power of grassroots online community organizing before November 4th, you should be now. Of course,

economy

From donor to user

I am on the road so watching more TV than usual. The ad campaign for The Salvation Army is eerie, spectral, and moving. The concern expressed by SA leaders that the current economic times may be turning some donors to the organization into users of its services is sad, but

campaigns

What can philanthropy learn from political campaigns?

I recently found myself wondering what the tactics, strategies, infrastructure, governance changes, and technology applications that distinguish this Presidential campaign from others might mean for communities and community philanthropy. I had just read a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle,  and was walking to get bagels on a sunny morning.

cross-platform philanthropy

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,

media

Media Coverage and New Publications

The book review I published here on Money Well Spent has been picked up by Alliance Magazine's Recommended Resources page. Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., the company that brings you this blog, is featured in the October issue of Wealth Manager Magazine, in a story on financial advisers

media

Who needs an annual report?

By now I'm sure you've heard that Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is going to announce his choice for Vice President by text message. Imagine a world in which texting is how major news gets announced. What does that mean for your philanthropy?

What's wrong with embedding...

There is an interesting comment discussion going on in relation to this post from a week or so ago....touches on the role of everyone as a content producer and thus an advertiser, fundraiser, influencer. What might this mean for giving and activism? Don't put this off to

advertising

Philanthropy Advertising

(photo from adweek.com) My post on Embedded Giving 2.0 elicited a comment that suggested this kind of activity - in which individuals advertise their chosen brands on behalf of their favorite causes - be called "embedded advertising." Nothing embedded about the latest advertisement for philanthropic advising

media

Corporation for public media

Philanthropy and public broadcasting go hand in hand, back to the very origins of PBS. Two recent stories (and one personal experience) related to public broadcasting and digital media made me think about where these relationships might be going as all media seem to become cross-platform.* 1. Driving the rental

climate change

Solutions (not an April's Fools joke)

First the good news. Then the bad news. Then the good, then the bad, and so on and so on and so on. I'm not the only who is feeling this way - on Saturday this was the lead-in to a front page NY Times story: "More

blogs

Foundation blogs - again

Peter Osnos writes about media for The Century Foundation. His weekly column, "The Platform" is one of my "must reads."As regular readers of this site know, I think the changes in the media business give us much to think about where philanthropy (and many other

media

Special report on philanthropy...and its not even Giving Season

The Nightly Business Report on PBS begins a special three-part report on philanthropy this evening, February 25. Part One looks at how people decide how much to give - online at a GuidetoGiving part one. Tags: philanthropy, media

Giving Change, Changing Giving

Have been on airplanes and in nonstop meetings, most without wifi, hence lack of posts. Am working on thoughts about relationships between online giving marketplaces (DonorsChoose, GlobalGiving, Kiva) and how (if) they are changing giving. Also pondering (and pursuing research leads) on links between charitable giving and civic engagement...(e.

bigthink

BigThink...

You may have seen the story in the Times the other day about BigThink - here it is. What is BigThink? As the Times put it, its a web site that "...mixes interviews with public intellectuals from a variety of fields, from politics, to law to business, and allows

media

Where does the money go?

Today's Wall Street Journal asks this question, in this article by Sally Beatty (subscription required). I sit on the advisory board of the Nonprofit Reporter, one of the organizations interviewed and mentioned in the story. Today Marketplace, NPR's daily business program, begins a week long series

blogs

Stay tuned, there is more to come in 2007

My previous post was so badly written as to confuse many of you. It was not my last blog post for 2007, just my last post to SSIR for the year. Still to come between now and December 31, 2007.... * Buzzwords number 8, 9, and, (drumroll, please) of course, 10

advertising

Philanthropy advertising

I took a quick look around to see what I could see in terms of developments in end-of-year philanthropy advertising.        "The quotes/italics are my interpretations of the ads"       [The brackets indicate where I saw the ad] "But wait, I wanted a toaster...." * Wells Fargo'

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Foundations and poverty

Philanthropy has taken a bit of heat lately for not doing enough about poverty. First came the Google report that only a small percentage of philanthropic giving goes to poverty alleviation, either domestically or internationally. Then comes a rejuvenated public discussion (I'd call it a debate but I