Change native to the digital world

(photo by kjarrett, Flickr, Creative Commons) I’m looking for examples of social change organizations that are totally native to the digital world. They were created in and around digital tools and they use these tools to manage their work, communication, programs, fund development – everything. The prevalence of these tools shaped the way the organization’s [...]

More thoughts on what is next

[Cross posted from SSIR] “Green Shoots” for New Philanthropic Forms I’ve been writing about information as the currency of change for a long time. Everything I have seen in philanthropic innovation in the last two decades is predicated on this simple observation—there are two kinds of philanthropy products: financial products and information products. They used [...]

What kind of philanthropic organization would you build?

(Creative Commons Photo By: Ambuj Saxena) …Imagine a future in which high quality, informed, diverse, and meaningful data on nonprofits and change organizations, the work they do, and the impact they have is widely available, free or low cost, and comparable. What kind of community philanthropy organizations, or philanthropic organizations, or donor services, or giving [...]

It is not a recession, it is a restructuring

I’ve been thinking about this post since last November. Unfortunately, quite a few things have come between my thinking about it and my writing about it. I’m sitting here now, with 25 minutes to go before I know I’ll be interrupted, to get some first words out there because I think this frame is critical [...]

A call for abstracts

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS CanadaHelps is seeking workshop abstracts for oral presentations at the MyCharityConnects Conference, June 8-9, 2009 in Toronto. The conference is geared toward small and medium sized organizations. The focus – best practices for various online tools that enable increased fundraising and awareness. They are looking for speakers on a variety of topics [...]

Let’s pitch Hollywood

Think “Craigslist + Kiva = ?” or “Twitter + United Way = ?” or “My.Barack.Obama + VolunteerMatch + WorldBank = ?” Now it’s your turn. We can play on Twitter. I say “Salesforce” and you say “…” Or I say “vaccines” and you say “…” Tags: philanthropy, development, technology

Give fast

Epic Change raised over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. Beth Kanter raised more than $2500 in 90 minutes for an organization for which she has long volunteered. Here are a list of reflections about how to do this – most cites lead to blogs. There is a lot being written [...]

Ohio’s fast philanthropy

The Columbus Foundation launched PowerPhilanthropy in March of 2008 and moved hundreds of thousands of dollars in under an hour (I wrote about them in this Future Matters 2008.1). This week they beat their own record – on November 18 they used up their entire match fund in 34 minutes, processed 650 gifts in the [...]

Tech Roundup 2008.2

I’m on day 2 of a 14 day East Coast/European business trip so my posting schedule may be a bit jet lagged. That said, I just found this post over at SocialActions and realized I could skip ahead on an entire tech roundup simply by linking to Peter’s notes on platforms. The SocialActions post notes [...]

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 [...]