If you haven’t seen The Girl Effect video produced by the Nike Foundation and the NoVo Foundation, take a minute and check it out. The video has been around for a while, but I bring it up now because the head of the Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, has just been nominated by president Obama to [...]
Category Archives: Media
Peter Singer on Colbert Nation
March 13, 2009 – 9:25 am
Earlier this week I mentioned Peter Singers new book The Life You Can Save. Singer offers challenging moral augments for why we must do more for charity. Last night Singer appeared on Colbert Nation, the spin-off of The Daily Show that features comedian Stephen Colbert. Talk about a tough show to talk about your book! [...]
My Take on Foundations and the Media
February 27, 2009 – 8:37 am
Lots of buzz after the Philanthropy Media Panel on why foundations do not get more press attention. I think the core reason that foundations do not get much press is because most people think that giving money away is easy. Doing something easy doesn’t garner press attention. And it shouldn’t. But the fact is opening [...]
Why Don’t Foundations Get More Media Coverage?
February 26, 2009 – 9:53 am
Bruce Trachtenberg runs The Communications Network, which says on its website “Formed nearly 20 years ago as a volunteer group, the Network today operates as a stand-alone 501(c), dedicated to helping advance, promote, and encourage the adoption of effective communications practices in philanthropy.” As I wrote earlier today, Bruce attended the Philanthropy Media Panel and [...]
Philanthropy Media Panel
February 26, 2009 – 9:30 am
I had a great time sitting on the philanthropy media panel yesterday. There was strong interest from reporters at many top outlets such as Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg and others. Both Mitch Nauffts of Philanthropy News Digest and Bruce Trachtenberg of the Communications Network were in attendance and have blogged about the session: [...]
Media Coverage of Philanthropy
February 23, 2009 – 3:07 pm
I don’t think the media covers philanthropy very well. I think philanthropy is full of exciting stories about innovation and impact, but too many media reports focus on big gifts without exploring the context or impact. I wrote about this back in September 2007 after a journalist posted a rant to this blog about how [...]
Chronicle of Philanthropy/Tactical Philanthropy Interactivity
February 12, 2009 – 8:03 am
When I first launched my column with the Financial Times, I planned on creating some linkages between the column and this blog. For instance, when I wrote a column about giving circles I had hoped to link back to my blog where I would publish a list of similarities between giving circles and investment clubs [...]
How Donors Can Maximize Social Returns
November 25, 2008 – 11:58 am
Leslie Crutchfield, who co-authored the excellent book Forces for Good about high impact nonprofits and was a guest on one of my podcasts, has written a really great article for the Washington Post titled How Donors Can Maximize Social Returns: The global financial crisis has forced many donors to scale back their charitable giving, and [...]
Tactical Philanthropy in the San Francisco Chronicle
October 13, 2008 – 12:36 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle used the phase “tactical philanthropy” on the front page of the paper yesterday. Interest blossoms in point-click philanthropySeveral times a year, Heidi Hess and James Rucker of San Francisco go online, PayPal style, and redirect their wealth to their favorite charities. They are tactical philanthropists – part of a growing group [...]
Bill Somerville on CBS
June 11, 2008 – 10:55 am
A producer at CBS read my Financial Times column about Bill Somerville and asked Bill to take them on the same field trip that he took me on. The result is this three minute video with the news crew visiting all the same places that I mentioned in my column. Click here to view the [...]
