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Nonprofit Online News Journal - November 2004

Today we're publishing the November 2004 issue of our new Nonprofit Online News Journal (27 page PDF). This issue remains free to all subscribers. In addition to a Letter from the Editor, two articles, and all the news and classified ads, we are including a resource that is only available in the Journal: a one page Webcasting Quicksheet, designed to help you get up and running with the necessary software for webcasting as described in last month's article. Posted: 12/9/04; 6:35:39 PM #

Syllabus, HUM 202 -- Toward a Literacy of Cooperation
	Stanford University is offering a course called Toward a Literacy of Cooperation. Take a look at the syllabus and especially the second column, which lists the required reading. That reading list alone could form the bedrock of a program promoting community building and collaboration among nonprofit organizations. Posted: 12/9/04; 10:59:23 AM #

Outcome Based Arts Evaluation: Measuring Joy
	Deborah Bedwell of Clayworks wrote a nice little article entitled Measuring Joy, as a contribution to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts web site on outcome based evaluation. Her conclusion is that you can indeed measure joy (in her case, the delight experienced by children in their programs) and apply logic models to arts organizations. Posted: 12/9/04; 10:59:14 AM #

Activists Dominate Content Complaints

This is a great example of how one small organization can have a huge impact on policy, when the the policy makers are sympathetic to your cause in the first place. It turns out that the supposedly enormous increase in "indecency" complaints to the U.S. Federal Communication Commission were actually the work of a single right wing organization. In 2003, for example, 99% of complaints came from Parent's Television Council. The insight here is how important it is to have allies on the inside, because in another context, say an environmental issue, this would play out very differently. Posted: 12/9/04; 10:59:04 AM #

Seattle at Five
	Mark Engler looks back at the state of global activism in the five years since the WTO protests in Seattle. He reminds us of what an amazing moment in history that was and how many of us have understandably been distracted by trying to organize a response to U.S. militarism. Posted: 12/9/04; 10:58:50 AM #