Monthly Archive
August 2010Know Your Sector
August 30th, 2010
Ignorance of the nonprofit sector — especially its scope and diversity — is rampant and has been a topic of increasing concern to me over the nine years I have been in my role at CEP. This brief video is the best quick overview of the sector I have seen and I hope it is used to help address this issue: For a good discussion related to this video, and the criticism of the Giving Pledge that is rooted in ignorance of the sector, check out Tactical Philanthropy. ...
Getting Over Our Identity Crisis
August 17th, 2010
It’s a line I have heard a number of times now, on the conference circuit, and it always generates a lot of head nods and a few approving chuckles. A speaker opens his or her comments with a lament about the foolishness of naming the sector “nonprofit. ...
No More Messing Around Like We Have Been: A Thank You to a Crusader for Better Philanthropy
August 6th, 2010
There is a lot of rhetoric and bluster about effective philanthropy. But one person who, over the course of his terrific career, has really focused on practical, tangible steps to make philanthropy better is Joel Orosz. ...
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Will What Was Said in Detroit Stay in Detroit?
While I unable to attend the conference, I was interested in this edition of your blog. As someone who has moved in and out of...
While I unable to attend the conference, I was interested in this edition of your blog. As someone who has moved in and out of...
Lessons from a Risk Taken
I really appreciate your willingness to share this and your assessment of what didn't work out as planned or anticipated. Thanks.
I really appreciate your willingness to share this and your assessment of what didn't work out as planned or anticipated. Thanks.
Lessons from a Risk Taken
Jon, thanks for the comment. If there’s one thing we learned, it’s that the cost in time and effort and dollars were all higher than...
Jon, thanks for the comment. If there’s one thing we learned, it’s that the cost in time and effort and dollars were all higher than...
Lessons from a Risk Taken
Thanks for sharing the lessons learned, and what I sense are second thoughts about the cost/benefit of the whole enterprise. I appreciate the thirst for...
Thanks for sharing the lessons learned, and what I sense are second thoughts about the cost/benefit of the whole enterprise. I appreciate the thirst for...
Foundations and Impact Investing: What Is Really Going On?
Great insight. Sometimes it's great to invest in multiple countries as security as the economy in one country might decrease and increase in another.
Great insight. Sometimes it's great to invest in multiple countries as security as the economy in one country might decrease and increase in another.
