Inspired Philanthrophy
The website for the new edition of Tracy Gary’s book. The “resource” section offers free downloads of the books worksheets.
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Newsweek: Philanthropy on Facebook
Newsweek article says that Facebook Causes is the future of philanthropy. Lucy Bernholz and others don’t buy it.
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What the Heck is Tactical Philanthropy? - Expert Business Source
An article heavily citing [...]
Robert Egger: We Need 25% Fewer Nonprofits
Tactical Philanthropy reader Robert Egger says we need 25% fewer nonprofits.
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One Post Challenge: It’s Your Turn To Blog
The One Post Challenge if your opportunity to write a post that will appear on Tactical Philanthropy.
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Dialogue for Donors - Mission Investing
This Susan Herr produced video explains mission investing.
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Altruists [...]
How big is the audience for philanthropy blogs? B5media thinks the audience is real and valuable to advertisers.
With more than 290 blogs, 15 vertical channels and over 10 million unique visitors a month, b5media offers advertisers a large, loyal and growing audience for companies looking to promote their brands and products.
Those 290 blogs include blogs [...]
I got an email from someone interested in the One Post Challenge today:
I’ve been managing a listserv that addresses topics in philanthropy for quite some time now and many of my recipients have been encouraging me to start my own blog. My listserv is a weekly e-mail where I normally address three to four topics [...]
We’ve debated recently on this blog whether innovation for the sake of innovation is valuable in the philanthropic sector. I originally said that it was not, but then quickly came around to the idea that since innovation is not rewarded the way it is in the for-profit sector (where most innovations fail, but the few [...]
My most recent column in the Financial Times discusses the coming boom in charitable lead trusts and how they can be used to prepare children for responsible oversight of wealth.
I don’t write the headline of my columns, so I laughed out loud when I saw the headline writer had titled my column “Children need not [...]
Get ready for the first annual Tactical Philanthropy “One Post Challenge”!
I’ve spent a lot of time and energy encouraging the philanthropy blog conversation and prodding foundations to launch their own blogs. Now I’m going to put my money where my mouth is.
During the month of November, anyone who wants to post a blog entry to [...]
The coolest part of the newly redesigned Tactical Philanthropy is nothing that I write. The coolest thing is the new feeds of blog posts, news stories, videos and opinions that reside in the far right column. If you’re reading this in a feedreader or via email, click here to come see the actual site and [...]
Reader Bruce Trachtenberg leaves me this comment on my post titled Tactical Philanthropy: The Next Buzzword?:
Maybe we should just steer clear of buzzwords altogether and just focus on getting the job done. Then, if necessary, we can call it “successful philanthropy.”
Bruce’s website features the Jargon Finder: an online collection of foundation and nonprofit jargon. He [...]
In last 2005, I started using the phrase “tactical philanthropy” to refer to the work I did with clients at Ensemble Capital Management. “Strategic Philanthropy” is a common phrase and I thought that if there is strategy, then by definition there must be tactics.
In spring of 2006, the book Mapping the New World of American [...]
If you are going to attend the live online chat with Clara Miller that I mentioned yesterday, please note that it is taking place on November 8 at 1pm eastern. I mistakenly wrote yesterday that it was on the 10th.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an excellent article about the Nonprofit Business Analysis program offered by the Nonprofit Finance Fund. NFF is run by Clara Miller, a former Tactical Philanthropy Podcast Guest. You can read the full article even if you do not subscribe to the Chronicle by clicking here.
The article looks at how NFF [...]
Sorry if you were one of the people who tried to email me today and found that the links on the blog were broken. They are fixed now. You can always email me via the new link at the top of the far right column. You can also email me by clicking here or sending [...]
Welcome to the new Tactical Philanthropy. I’ve got a couple new features I’d like to point out to you.
Check out the “Blog Posts I’m Reading Right Now” list in the far right column. These are individual blog posts that I’ve found interesting and that I think you should check out. I’m not able to write [...]
Launch Podcast
Today’s interview is with Robert Egger. Robert is a driving force behind the Nonprofit Primary Project and is the Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen. During the interview, Robert explains the political clout of the nonprofit sector, says it is an urban myth that nonprofits cannot be political involved, and calls me [...]
