I’m reviewing some of the early posts on Tactical Philanthropy this week. You can catch Monday’s posts for a little background on the history of this blog. Today I want to revisit Giving Blogs, a post I wrote on November 27, 2006. In this post I looked at the giving blog landscape and noted how [...]
Category Archives: Philanthropic Technology
Flashback: Web 2.0 & Philanthropy
September 15, 2008 – 1:33 pm
I launched Tactical Philanthropy in October 2006. Back then, philanthropy blogs were relatively few and far between. Phil Cubeta and I immediately got into a good back and forth (which is why I was a bit nostalgic over Phil’s most recent broadside). But in reviewing some of my early posts recently it occurred to me [...]
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 [...]
connec+ipedia
June 23, 2008 – 6:00 am
For some time now I’ve been talking about the need for large foundations to share their knowledge base with the general public. While some people have made this argument from the standpoint of obligations that foundations have to the public, I’ve thought that foundations will find that they are able to more effectively further their [...]
N2Y3 Mashup Challenge Project Gallery
March 24, 2008 – 8:22 am
This year’s NetSquared conference is a celebration of mashups. You still have time to vote (until 5pm pacific time today) for which contestants will be invited to the conference and even if you don’t vote, you can still check out all the projects.
NetSquared Update
February 28, 2008 – 3:38 pm
From the NetSquared Blog: Google’s engineers, product and project managers want to help bring your NetSquared Mashup Challenge idea to life! Next Friday, March 7th, NetSquared Mashup Challenge applicants have an incredible opportunity to participate in a Hackathon at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA from Noon-5 PM. A group of Google engineers, product and [...]
Social Marketplace Architecture
February 22, 2008 – 9:48 am
Reader Simon Marsh, shares his thoughts on the “Social Marketplace Architecture”: The idea A dynamic user led and focused software platform/environment for grant givers and grant seekers to interact and compete could be developed wherebytheir real time objectives and organisational identities interact and compete for the best ideas and resources. A second generation internet platform [...]
Beth Kanter & Michele Martin
February 22, 2008 – 8:11 am
The America’s Giving Challenge Champions have been announced. This experiment/competition to see how web 2.0 tools can be used for fundraising has gotten a ton of national coverage. Here’s the thing: Beth Kanter and Michele Martin won. Beth, who I know from NetSquared events and from her blog, is someone I’ve always thought got web [...]
How to Start a Nonprofit
February 20, 2008 – 9:52 am
My firm, Ensemble Capital Management, advertises our services for philanthropists on Google. We’ve found that most people googling words like “private foundations” or “donor advised funds” are looking for eduction, not a sales pitch. So we’ve crafted this landing page for people looking for private foundation info and this one for donor advised fund info. [...]
NetSquared N2Y3
February 20, 2008 – 9:34 am
NetSquared, the community of technology/nonprofit collaborators hosted by CompuMentor/TechSoup is hosting their third annual conference in May. I attended the first two and they are amazing. While each conference has had a different focus, they seem to bring out some of the most innovative people I’ve ever met. This year’s contest will focus on Mashups [...]
