(This is a guest post from Sandra Bass, program officer at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, who is covering the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy) By Sandra Bass I’m sure I’m not the only one who peered out the window of their shuttle as it crossed the Potomac into the National Harbor [...]
Category Archives: COF2008
Chronicle of Philanthropy Blogging COF
May 4, 2008 – 1:36 pm
In addition to the many bloggers posting here from the Council on Foundations conference, the Chronicle of Philanthropy has just launched their own COF blog. Here at Tactical Philanthropy you can read opinionated first hand reports from non-journalists. On the Chronicle site you can read objective dispatches from professional reporters. Both are needed. Check out [...]
Peter Deitz Introduction
May 4, 2008 – 1:32 pm
(This is a guest post from Peter Deitz, Founder of Social Actions, who is covering the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy) By Peter Deitz Depending on how you look at it, my journey to this year’s summit started yesterday morning, when I boarded the Amtrak train from Montreal to Washington DC, or last [...]
Taylor Ansley Introduction
May 4, 2008 – 12:00 pm
(This is a guest post from Taylor Ansley, a fellow at the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation, who is covering the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy) By Taylor Ansley My name is Taylor, and this is my second philanthropy conference. I entered the philanthropic world a little less than one year ago, shortly after [...]
Funding Change, Changing Funding
May 4, 2008 – 11:48 am
(This is a guest post from Peter Manzo, board member of National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, who is covering the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy) By Peter Manzo Saturday evening I attended “Funding Change, Changing Funding,” a reception hosted by a coalition of groups who promote funding for social justice causes. The event [...]
Dahna Goldstein Introduction
May 4, 2008 – 11:40 am
(This is a guest post from Dahna Goldstein, of PhilanTech and I Do Foundation, who is covering the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy) By Dahna Goldstein This is my third Council on Foundations conference, and it promises to be the best yet –not only because I’m not on crutches this year (navigating Seattle [...]
Bloggers at the Council on Foundations Conference
May 3, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Last year, on the eve of the Council on Foundations conference in Seattle, I wrote about how in 2002 only one blogger covered the California Democratic presidential convention but in 2007 a record 50 bloggers were in attendance (that number didn’t count the mainstream press who were blogging nor the every day attendees who happened [...]
COF 2007 vs COF 2008
May 3, 2008 – 10:26 pm
Last year was the first year that the Council on Foundations issued press credentials to bloggers. I just read through my posts from that experience. To recap what we learned about philanthropy and blogging: Bloggers are not reporters. Or at least I’m not. The fact that bloggers come from many different backgrounds means that they [...]
Introducing Peter Manzo
May 3, 2008 – 8:34 am
(This is a guest post from Peter Manzo, board member of National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, who is covering the Council on Foundations Conference for Tactical Philanthropy) By Peter Manzo The Philanthropy Summit will be my first Council on Foundations event, and as its scale and combination of COF membership groups are unprecedented, it is [...]
The Full COF Blog Team
May 2, 2008 – 2:53 pm
Here’s the complete list of people who will be blogging on Tactical Philanthropy from the COF conference. Also, there’s chatter starting about some sort of Tactical Philanthropy “happy hour” occurring on Monday night. It would be fun for the TP community to meet up with as much of the Blog Team as can make it. [...]
