Comments on: Letting Donors Vote for Board Members http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/03/letting-donors-vote-for-board-members Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Sean Stannard-Stockton http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/03/letting-donors-vote-for-board-members#comment-2984 Sean Stannard-Stockton Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:06:02 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/03/letting-donors-vote-for-board-members#comment-2984 Ha! You got me. In a <a href="http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/03/volunteermatch-and-the-social-capital-markets" rel="nofollow">previous post</a> I argued to you that how something was framed was important in its own right. But in this post I suggest that nonprofit must do more than frame donations as investments. I'd like to think those two statements are not contradictory. I do think that investing is a better frame than donating for nonprofits to approach (many, but not all) donors with. However, I think for that frame to be correct and not just spin, they must follow through in the way I've laid out in the post above. Ha! You got me. In a previous post I argued to you that how something was framed was important in its own right. But in this post I suggest that nonprofit must do more than frame donations as investments.

I’d like to think those two statements are not contradictory. I do think that investing is a better frame than donating for nonprofits to approach (many, but not all) donors with. However, I think for that frame to be correct and not just spin, they must follow through in the way I’ve laid out in the post above.

]]> By: foundationwriter http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/03/letting-donors-vote-for-board-members#comment-2958 foundationwriter Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:49:48 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2008/03/letting-donors-vote-for-board-members#comment-2958 But I thought "investing" was a better way to "frame" it. maybe you should define "social investment." But I thought “investing” was a better way to “frame” it. maybe you should define “social investment.”

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