Senator Grassley Is Undermining the Humanitarian Sector – Dan Pallotta – Harvard Business Review
Yesterday I pointed to CNBC's lack of knowledge of nonprofit evaluation. In this post Dan Pallotta points to CNN's sensationalization of compensation issues in the nonprofit sector.
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My request for input on ways we could structure the Tactical Philanthropy track at the SoCap conference so that we move beyond potentially boring panel discussions has generated some solid, supportive ideas.
But I just got the following email from Ken Berger, CEO of Charity Navigator (published with his permission):
Ken writes:
My basic assumption is that people [...]
In light of my last post looking for how to structure the most engaging conference sessions, I have another question.
Who are the most amazing, dynamic and engaging speakers you’ve ever seen talk about philanthropy, the social sector and social capital markets?
Too often, people end up on panels or giving presentations because they are experts. But [...]
A month ago we announced that Tactical Philanthropy Advisors was partnering with the Social Capital Markets conference to produce a Tactical Philanthropy track at this year’s conference. I subsequently offered up a list of eight panel concepts and received outstanding input from many of you on which panels were of most interest. We’re now preparing [...]
On Friday, the Obama administration announced the charities that would receive the $1.4 million that president Obama was awarded when he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Interestingly, CNBC, the leading financial news channel looked to cover the news and brought on Chronicle of Philanthropy staff writer Ian Wilhelm to talk about the picks.
What transpired was [...]
Baby Steps and Other Lessons Learned Implementing Social Media at a Foundation « Open Road Advisors
Larry Blumenthal, formally social media guru at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, explains why babies and drunks are good at falling down stairs and the lessons this offers to foundations wanting to deploy social media.
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Inside Philanthropy: Time to shatter [...]
This is a guest post from George Overholser of the Nonprofit Finance Fund. This post follows the bullet point format George used when he wrote the Bullet Point Manifesto guest post last year.
By George Overholser
Someone recently defined nonprofit “mid-caps” as organizations with revenues in the $5 million to $25 million range. [...]
Grading How Obama Handled His Nobel Prize Winnings | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org
Nathaniel Whittemore grades president Obama's Noble charitable giving. He's gets some A's and some F's.
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The Social Brain | The Greater Good Blog
New research shows our heads are filled with "mirror neuron" that make us empathetic. Some people have more than others.
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Peter Frumkin is the author of Strategic Giving, an excellent book that I reviewed last year. Earlier this week, Peter wrote a post on the Philanthropy Central blog calling into question some of his own assumptions about what drivers are most important to successful philanthropy.
Peter wrote:
…I am increasingly troubled by a recurrent worry. It is [...]
VPP | Chairman's Corner: 'Social Outcomes': Missing the Forest for the Trees?
After his essay last month in which he worried that many efforts to measure nonprofit results have gone far off course, Mario Marino of Venture Philanthropy Partners returns with an essay looking at the "whys" and "whats" to measure rather than the "hows".
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NYC [...]
