On vacation until September 10

April Fools accolades

I guess you know you’ve made it in blogland when someone you’ve never met uses your blog comments to make an April fool’s day announcement about Ford Foundation presidency. I guess.

Aligned Investment in the UK

Alliance Magazine – a must-read in philanthropy – ran a good piece on a variety of approaches to mission-related investing in the UK. Highlights are the use of screened public companies, recoverable grants, revolving loans and the services of Coutts, a bank/wealth management company with a very strong philanthropy practice.

Worldmapping

Here are two very cool tools to add to your data display collection. First, the WorldMapper lets you mashh together various data sources and display it on a world map. For example, you can show the number of people killed by drought, those with advanced education degrees, children living in poverty, etc. Here is an [...]

Walking to New York…From Kennedy

Wednesday’s Times ran a great story about British author Will Self who, upon visiting New York, chose to walk into Manhattan from JFK. I loved this story. Particularly these insights… “What recommended it was that it would take him through parts of the city that most people never notice while driving in a car: an [...]

Internship at Craigslist Foundation

Craigslist has helped us all find apartments, roommates, cars, furniture, dates, just about anything you could ask for. Now’s your chance to give back as an AmeriCorps VISTA. We are hiring a CTC VISTA, responsible for the development of online resources and technology infrastructure. Please visit http://ctcvista.org/recruit?app_id=411 for a complete job description. Stipend of roughly [...]

Public Service Announcements

I’m in Chicago at a really interesting meeting on the future of learning, schools, libraries and other institutions. While I collect my thoughts on those topics, here is is a select group of competitions, job announcements and other stuff (see post below on internship at Craigslist) that came my way and may be of interest [...]

Yaks, Kids, SecondLife

Philanthropists and nonprofits are slowly moving into web 2.0 and even SecondLife. As this blog seems to be en route to becoming the “go to” place for information on philanthropy and SecondLife (now, that is a niche) I am grateful to Steve Bridger of NFP 2.0 for his post about how Save the Children is [...]

TED Talks

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) always has speakers worth hearing. Since its way too late to register for the next conference, check out these streams from philanthropists past and be sure to bookmark TED for future speeches. Jacqueline Novogratz — the founder of Acumen Fund, a non-profit thattakes a business-like approach to improving the lives [...]

Carbon trading

Lots of news about carbon trading. You can minimize your guilt about the carbon you use by buying carbon credits and supporting renewable resources. Here are some places to look into it for yourself Carbon Fund lets you offset the pollution you create by driving for a simple annual fee. Offsetters lets you offset the [...]