December 14, 2007 – 12:23 pm
This is a big deal. If you go to Google Finance, you can now search for charities by name and pull up data about them, news stories, blog posts and leave comments in a discussion forum (hat tip to “a fundraiser”). As far as I know this is brand new and as far as I [...]
December 14, 2007 – 11:06 am
I wrote yesterday about the Chronicle of Philanthropy article about Great Nonprofits. In the article, some people voice the criticism that the site has just positive reviews. So I emailed founder Perla Ni and put the criticism to her.
(Full Disclosure: Perla is a friend of mine. I know her professionally, but I also went to [...]
December 14, 2007 – 12:25 am
The GiveWell Blog - True Experts? Or old boys’ club?
Holden, as controversial as ever, suggests that foundations, even large ones, might have no expertise in philanthropy.
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FT.com - US foundations come clean
My editor at the Financial Times reports on the trend for foundations to admit mistakes, be more strategic and engage in evaluation.
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FT.com - [...]
December 13, 2007 – 4:02 pm
The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an excellent, rather amazing, issue out this week.
In September, Cheryl Dahle, a podcast guest, wrote a “rant” about why foundations don’t deserve more media coverage. I respond with a rebuttal arguing that the business press doesn’t require the biggest companies to be innovative to publish a business section, they often [...]
December 13, 2007 – 12:23 am
FT.com - How not to let charity gifts get on your goat
Tim Ogden of Beyond Philanthropy and Geneva Global authors this article in the Financial Times about “alternative gifts”, the trendy practice of “buying” items out of charity catalogs as a gift for friends and family. Gotta love those FT headline writers.
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Trista Harris: Woo [...]
December 12, 2007 – 12:24 am
FT.com - A businesslike approach to charity
An interesting story from my editor at the Financial Times. Key quote :“The generation we are dealing with today has an unending thirst and desire for sudden impact, they want results,” she says. “They have acquired their wealth not by working at fa
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When a Luxury Vacation Cultivates Philanthropy [...]
December 11, 2007 – 4:46 pm
When you interact with Tactical Philanthropy or any other blog in the comments section, you are engaging in public speaking. Proof of this comes from this weeks Chronicle of Philanthropy, which quotes me by republishing comments I posted to the GiveWell blog.
The story in question is the cover story, which provides an extensive overview of [...]
December 11, 2007 – 4:17 pm
I never got around to commenting on the NY Times Giving Section. As always it was full of a ton of interesting articles, notable Stephanie Strom on the trend towards foundations “spending down” rather than existing forever, an overview of blogs effect on fundraising citing GiveWell, The Agitator and Trent Stamp (and a list of [...]
December 11, 2007 – 3:59 pm
Paul Shoemaker of Social Venture Partners is publishing “Ten Things We’d Like to Tell Every New Philanthropist.” Paul notes in the intro: This is written in the spirit of sharing knowledge and helping philanthropists be more effective. Every mistake articulated here has been made by all of us. The intent is not to preach a [...]
December 11, 2007 – 2:20 pm
The One Post Challenge got me WAY behind on other commentary…
In late November, Barron’s, a weekly financial newspaper that is a sister paper to the Wall Street Journal, featured a story called Wise Giving on its cover. This was an important article because unlike the majority of mainstream media articles on philanthropy that focus on [...]
December 11, 2007 – 1:58 pm
I enjoyed the One Post Challenge so much that I’ve decided to make guest posts a regular feature of Tactical Philanthropy. The first guest post comes from Linnea Noreen. Linnea is the Managing Director for TisBest.org. She has worked over 7 years in nonprofit and project management, directing programs at the YMCA and Seattle Works, [...]
December 11, 2007 – 1:40 pm
I sent FORGE their prize money today. Congratulations once again to them and “a fundraiser”, the author of the winning post of the One Post Challenge. We also have a runner up. Thanks to a $250 prize offer by charity gift card company TisBest, I get to award a prize to the post that I [...]
December 10, 2007 – 8:15 am
This post appeared today on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog. You can find it here.
Everything Important is Controversial
Think of the three most important issues about which you have a strong opinion. Now consider for a moment whether those issues are controversial or whether they are issues on which everyone agrees.
The simple fact is that [...]
December 8, 2007 – 12:25 am
Google shoots for the moon - and gets its first taker
The first contestant to enter Google and the X Prize Foundation’s Moon Contest announced their intentions today. Certainly one of the more interesting examples of prize philanthropy and one that is certain to grab the general public’s interest.
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December 7, 2007 – 9:17 am
I get a lot of press releases. I hate them because usually the sender is blasting out a mass email and the content is only vaguely related to the topics we discuss here. Far better is when someone emails me personally and writes a brief note explaining why their topic relates to my blog.
But I [...]
