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 [...]

Keep the Momentum

I attend a lot of conferences (too many). Philanthropy, technology, education, nonprofit, finance, entrepreneurship, community change, media, publishing – a lot of interests and a lot of conferences. So, with my credentials established, I want to put it out there that this afternoon I may have been to the most interesting plenary session I’ve ever [...]

Online Social Action Platforms

Causewired is building a list of online social action platforms. So is Peter Deitz. Check them out as complements to this list. Tags: philanthropy, socialchange, technology, innovation, platforms

Online Social Action Platforms

Causewired is building a list of online social action platforms. So is Peter Deitz. Check them out as complements to this list. Tags: philanthropy, socialchange, technology, innovation, platforms

Social media for social change

Yesterday, I hit the 1000th post mark on this blog. Whew. (Anyone wondering why I haven’t delivered those manuscripts to my publisher now knows the answer). In honor of that, I’m simply going to use this post # 1001 to draw your attention to what the experts over at ReadWriteWeb are saying about How to [...]

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 off: [...]

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 off: [...]

Notes on nonprofit networks

Enough of my noodling about networks, I decided to take my questions, “What do nonprofit networks look like, how do they work, and what does this mean for philanthropy?” to the experts. So I asked these questions of the folks over at FAS.Research – who do very important work mapping networks. Here’s some of what [...]

Making sense (or trying to)

Here is what today’s news brought: Economic stimulus package in the U.S. – – $600 check is in the mail for American taxpayers. Additions to the list of private universities recalculating their own rules for financial aid and deploying a percentage of their endowments to provide tuition discounts and grants to lower and middle income [...]

Funding Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

(Cross-posted from The Huffington Post) Yesterday in the U.S. was Martin Luther King, Jr Day. It was pouring rain in San Francisco, where I wrote this, but the several hundred people I marched with in Dr. King’s honor were not deterred by the weather. <!– HuffIt –> I think a lot about foundations and philanthropy [...]