Pattern recognition at Investors Circle

There is a community supported agriculture program in Denmark in which 150 co-worker farmers serve 50,000 homes with organic produce brought direct from field to house. It is believed to be the largest such effort anywhere in the world. In community supported agriculture the customers are also investors – they buy shares in the farms. [...]

More gen crossing

At the Global Philanthropy Forum the featured group was The Elders.
At the Council on Foundations the biggest splash came from the Next Gen organizers (EPIP, Resource Generation, Changemakers, 21/64, etc). Should we assume from this n of 2 that:
• Foundations are run by old folks so younger people are the next new [...]

der Trans Gen

(Photos by G Kasper, courtesy of Resource Generation. The sign says “Equity for All” and was part of a posterboard titled “The Future of Philanthropy” with dozens of photos of COF participants holding signs of what they wanted to make that future look like.)
What does der Trans Gen mean? The hottest COF conference item was [...]

The whole world gathers

May 10 is Pangea Day.If you think the COF is big, check this out.You can go to the movies with the whole world.
Tags: pangeaday, cof2008, philanthropy

Considering measurements and measurers

Who are you? How do you know?
Psychologists love questions of identity and all its multiple dimensions – from attitudes to behavior. Geneticists are also ready to weigh in, from different perspectives and with different data. Demographers will chime in – disaggregating you along various dimensions and then adding you into many cohorts. Historians or biographers [...]

Crowdsourced buzzes and communities

I’ve been asked a few times lately – where are the 2008 buzzwords? The answer is: we’re working on them. We’ve turned to crowdsourcing them this year so please feel free to email me/post a comment with the philanthropic buzzwords you’ve been noticing. Two things I’ve realized about buzzwords since the 2007 list took [...]

Crowdsourced buzzes and communities

I’ve been asked a few times lately – where are the 2008 buzzwords? The answer is: we’re working on them. We’ve turned to crowdsourcing them this year so please feel free to email me/post a comment with the philanthropic buzzwords you’ve been noticing. Two things I’ve realized about buzzwords since the 2007 list took [...]

Blog mob

Sean Stannard Stockton is organizing a team of bloggers to cover the Council on Foundations’ upcoming conference. I think this is a great idea – well done, Sean.
It is a great example of crowdsourcing coverage, and I am particularly impressed that a blogger made this happen on his own. Given that COF only allowed bloggers [...]