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| Blog Action Day 2008: Focus on Poverty |
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I was impressed with last year's Blog Action Day on the Environment and so I want to recommend to the hundreds of bloggers who read Nonprofit Online News to dive into this year's Focus on Poverty. The concept is simple: On the same day as everyone else who is participating, add your unique perspective to the conversation about poverty. Blog Action day is October 15 and as of this moment there are 4,821 weblogs signed up. An added recommendation: If you are involved in any of the many thousands of organizations whose very mission is to end poverty and you are not already blogging, take the plunge and launch your blog on that day.
Posted: 9/29/08; 5:57:26 PM # |
| Nonprofits Must Gear for Tough Economy |
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In Nonprofits Must Gear for Tough Economy, Todd Cohen makes some well-informed, conservative predictions about the impact of the recession (or whatever government propagandists are calling it right now) on nonprofit funding. His insights, which don't touch much on social change organizations, include: (1) Art funding may be harder hit than social services, (2) Foundations are likely to try to keep giving stable, (3) Government funding could go more than one way, and (4) Demand for many services may increase. As I see it, his overarching recommendation is to focus on organizational capacity building in order to maximize flexibility in the face of the crisis and opportunity ahead.
Posted: 9/29/08; 5:53:29 PM # |
| I'm Not Rockefeller: 33 High Net Worth Philanthropists Discuss Their Approach to Giving |
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An organization I follow called The Center for High Impact Philanthropy has released a report entitled I'm Not Rockefeller: 33 High Net Worth Philanthropists Discuss Their Approach to Giving (32 page PDF). It's a fascinating read that is more of a study of the self-image of the philanthropists than an analysis of giving methodologies. Start with the subtitle, where in keeping with the systematic denial of class in the U.S., the people in the study can't simply be called "wealthy", or better yet "rich". Then consider the quote that gives the report it's title - "The word 'philanthropist' still cracks me up because it sounds so hoity-toity... I'm not Rockefeller" - which to me reveals how even the rich compare themselves mostly with the even-more-rich. By the way, these are folks who are not just millionaires, but rather who have the capacity to give a million dollars a year. All of my arch commentary aside however, this is wonderful, charming, humanizing reading and I highly recommend it.
Posted: 9/29/08; 5:39:24 PM # |
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