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An Open Discussion About How Omidyar Network Could Work Better

Ami Dar recently kicked off a rare and unusual kind of conversation. In An Open Discussion About How Omidyar Network Could Work Better, a number of very articulate stakeholders respond to his description of how "many organizations have been hurt and disappointed" by recurring behaviors of the funding arm of the Omidyar Network. If you're at all interested in breaking down some of the barriers we have about criticizing funders in our communities, I recommend you take a look at this conversation. Posted: 2/18/07; 11:13:59 PM #

The Praxis Project's Information Resource Center
	I just recently came across The Praxis Project's Information Resource Center. This looks like a great collection of material for community organizing, including the following categories: Budgets and Finances, Coalition Building, Community Organizing, Media, and Policy Advocacy. Posted: 2/18/07; 11:06:41 PM #

Nonprofits in a Time of War
	Mark Rosenman, writing in the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Alternet, writes about Nonprofits in a Time of War. I ask you to read this and take it to heart. "Silence is an abdication in the face of an abomination", he says. And I agree. Posted: 2/18/07; 10:57:18 PM #