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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2010
Crowd-sourcing is No. 1 in Mashable.com’s “5 Trends Shaping the Future of Social Good”. And one prominent nonprofit author/blogger calls it the No. 1 benefit for foundations in making more use of social media. Have you engaged crowds yet in your grantmaking? Several foundations are experimenting with crowd-sourcing, which nonprofit technology experts and bloggers Beth [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2010
Now is our time.” —Vice President Al Gore “This is our moment.” —Geoffrey Canada These quotations are from former Vice President Al Gore and Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone, each of whom spoke at the Council on Foundations annual conference. (Partial videos have been posted on the conference’s wrap-up page.) They argue that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2010
Foundation leaders can no longer assume that policymakers share their view of the sector’s role—it is up to these leaders to tell philanthropy’s story in a way that can be appreciated and understood. This was among the conclusions of the members of the Aspen Philanthropy Group in their inaugural meeting last July. It was a [...]