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 [...]
Category Archives: nptech
Online Giving: Call for Assistance
January 5, 2009 – 9:50 am
On February 28 I’m guest lecturing in a Stanford University workshop taught by Bill Somerville. My one hour slot is going to focus on “Online Giving”. The class is called Philanthropy is For Everyone and is part of Stanford’s extension program. Most of the students are Stanford alumni who are currently involved in philanthropy or [...]
CauseWired by Tom Watson
January 2, 2009 – 3:12 pm
Most people in philanthropy kind of get that the web and “social media” applications are having an important impact on the field, but they don’t really understand what it all means. If this describes you, you need to make it your New Year’s resolution to read the outstanding book CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing [...]
GivingTools.com
December 9, 2008 – 3:05 pm
In October I wrote: I own the domains www.GivingTools.com and www.GivingTools.org. I don’t have any plans to use them. I’m not interested in selling them, but if you would like the domains AND you have an interesting project that you would use them for, let me know and I’ll consider giving them to you. I’ve [...]
Tactical Philanthropy Community Helps FORGE
November 3, 2008 – 12:47 pm
OK, enough talk. Let’s see if the Tactical Philanthropy community just likes to debate or whether we can accept a call to action. A quick recap: FORGE is a small nonprofit that works with refugee communities in Africa to help them gain community rebuilding skills. The organization is on the ropes due to a mismatch [...]
reCAPTCHA
October 23, 2008 – 3:28 pm
I use reCaptcha to prevent spam comments on this blog. A “CAPTCHA” is a little puzzle that you have to answer to prove you are not a computer. Around the world, people spend 150,000 hours a day solving these puzzles to prove they are humans and not spambots when they are enter data online. The [...]
GivingTools.com
October 8, 2008 – 1:14 pm
I own the domains www.GivingTools.com and www.GivingTools.org. I don’t have any plans to use them. I’m not interested in selling them, but if you would like the domains AND you have an interesting project that you would use them for, let me know and I’ll consider giving them to you. I apologize for the low [...]
Network for Good & Financial Services
September 23, 2008 – 12:22 pm
Last year I wrote a piece for the Chronicle of Philanthropy about my “predicted surprises” for 2008. The idea was not to make outright predictions, but to suggest events that could happen even though they would be a surprise. My thought was to create a kind of “stretch goals” list for philanthropy. One of the [...]
The Big Give
July 15, 2008 – 10:50 am
The Big Give (not to be confused with Oprah’s Big Give television show) is an interesting UK based website that allows donors to search for projects to fund. Much like a stock screening tool (which lets you look for stocks to buy that fit your criteria), The Big Give lets donors “screen” projects based on [...]
Online Grant Applications
June 25, 2008 – 10:10 am
Flaw #9 from the Project Streamline report: More than 80 percent of the grantmakers who responded to our survey reported that they have taken steps to make their information gathering practices “more efficient and streamlined for nonprofit applicants.” …Many streamlining strategies have turned out to be useful to foundations and their grantees. Yet others, notably [...]
