Justmeans.com: How innovative is the Social Innovation Fund?
Jeff Trexler argues that the Social Innovation Fund is nothing special. If the Fund is a bust, I think in retrospect Jeff's post will have been the blueprint for why things went wrong.
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NBC: Touching Hearts TV Show
NBC is launching another philanthropy themed TV show in the San [...]
Kelly Ward, the director of America Forward has just submitted this response to my recent posts about the Innovation Fund (see posts here and here):
Thanks Sean for both of your posts and for grounding this discussion in what’s written in the Serve America Act. As you say, the foundation for how the Fund will work [...]
Yesterday I highlight the way that President Obama’s description of the Innovation Fund differed in fundamentally important ways from the policy recommendations of America Forward. The simplest way to understand the distinction is that the way Obama described the Fund would mean that it was making grants to nonprofits, while the American Forward policy recommendation [...]
New Philanthropy Capital Blog – Could grant-makers borrow their way through the recession?
John Copps wonders if foundations should consider borrowing to maintain their grantmaking levels.
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Seth's Blog: The risk/reward confusion
Seth Godin, urges readers to put aside (for the moment) taking big risks, and looks at the large returns that come from taking just a little [...]
Yesterday, President Obama officially launched the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation and the Innovation Fund (whether it is now call the Social Innovation Fund or just the Innovation Fund is unclear). He also named Melody Barnes to run the Innovation Fund. You can see video of the event here.
Interestingly, President Obama described how [...]
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation – Doing Good Today and Better Tomorrow: A Roadmap to High Impact Philanthropy Through Outcome-Focused Grantmaking
A new report from the Hewlett Foundation detailing what they call Outcome-Focused Grantmaking. Describes their experience implementing the approach internally. A great read for program officers.
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Bob Ottenhoff Blog » The Flow of Federal [...]
My most recent column for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, appearing in this week’s issue. You can find an archive of past columns here.
Data Don’t Tell the Whole Story of Charities’ Impact July 2, 2009 | Link to Chronicle of Philanthropy
A week’s worth of The New York Times includes more information than the average [...]
Annual Conference: Social Venture Partners International
Registration for the Social Venture Partners Conference, Oct 22-24 in Dallas, opens today. I'll be leading two sessions.
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For philanthropy courses, students become the givers – The Boston Globe
More college courses teaching philanthropy. Might The Philanthropist spur interest in these classes the way Indian Jones got kids excited about archeology? [...]
The new NBC drama, The Philanthropist is… really quite good! Now look, it is easy to criticize the show. It isn’t perfect. But this is prime time entertainment, not a documentary. I’ll probably lose a little street cred in professional philanthropy circles, but gosh darn it I really enjoyed it!
There are two keys to understanding [...]
Short-run 'Philanthropist' is odd, but good-intentioned – USATODAY.com
A scathing preview in USA Today of The Philanthropist, which premiers on NBC tonight. The reviewer calls it a "incredibly preposterous show ."
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Steve Gunderson, the CEO of the Council on Foundations has just released a statement regarding The Philanthropist, the NBC drama that premiers tonight on NBC. I think Steve is probably right in much of what he says and his point that The Philanthropist is to philanthropy what The Pink Panther is to police work is [...]
Well the National Conference on Volunteering and Service seemed to have a lot of buzz. From Michele Obama’s keynote address to Jon Bon Jovi performing for the crowd, I may have found the answer to my question from the Council on Foundations conference asking where are all the rock stars?
The session I spoke at looked [...]
Giving in the Recession
The Institute for Philanthropy offers a smart, practical guide to giving during a recession.
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Bill Drayton Featured on Harvard Business IdeaCast
The Harvard Business IdeaCast (a podcast series) interviews Bill Drayton about social entrepreneurship.
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Purex 3 in 1 | Kiva – Changing laundry, Changing Lives
A new kind of laundry detergent that also gives [...]
YouTube – VideoVolunteers's Channel
YouTube (owned by Google) rolls out a new program to help people make videos to support the nonprofits they care about. The program interfaces with Google's new All for Good service.
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Official Google Blog: All for Good: Bringing search, scale and openness to community service
The Official Google Blog announces the roll out [...]
The National Conference on Volunteering and Service is getting a lot of buzz this week in San Francisco. Michele Obama is the keynote speaker and Maria Schriver, the first lady of California is speaking as well.
What’s interesting to me is that there are a number of sessions on the relationship between philanthropy and services. Kari [...]
