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Amazon Nonprofit Innovation Award Finalists 2005

Amazon has announced their 2005 Nonprofit Innovation Award Finalists. I'm not sure what this says about the awards, but the panel of judges includes such people as Muhammed Ali and actress Tea Leoni. One thing I can say for the judges: They were consistent, in at least two ways. As best as I can tell, there is not a single activist organization among the finalists. And every single one of the organizations takes an economic empowerment approach to social service. I like that approach, but I thought there were more innovations out there than that. Posted: 8/7/05; 11:32:54 PM #

Guidelines for Measuring Trust in Organizations
	The Institute for Public Relations has published a set of Guidelines for Measuring Trust in Organizations (17 page PDF). It might offer some insight to those of you who are into measuring things, as I sometimes can be. But it might just be an odd exercise, when looked at from the nonprofit perspective, where trust is the very currency of our existence. Posted: 8/7/05; 11:31:29 PM #

Audio Activism - Citizen Journalism Tech Kit 001
	Brian Russell of Audio Activism offers the first in a series of Citizen Journalism Tech Kits. It's a combination of a podcast, a step by step guide, and annotated links on how to do very cheap recording and broadcasting of interviews and the like. Posted: 8/7/05; 11:31:19 PM #