Thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions for evolving The Giving Carnival into something even better. It seems we have three challenges: How do we track the conversation across multiple blogs? Isn’t there a widget out there that lets you subscribe by email to a particular post, so that you get an email every time a […]
Category Archives: The Giving Carnival
The Giving Carnival Evolution
April 6, 2007 – 11:55 am
I really like the way the Giving Carnival has evolved. The back and forth discussion that came out of the last edition was great. Now I’m ready to refine the way it is structured and I want your help. As I said last week: To date, The Giving Carnival has been (in the words of […]
The Aspen Institute Philanthropy Letter
April 2, 2007 – 1:35 pm
Phil Cubeta draws our attention to the most recent Aspen Philanthropy Letter, which discusses the growing influence of philanthropy blogs. The article (reposted in Phil’s post) about blogs is titled, “Internet, through blogs and message boards, increasingly used as vehicle for criticizing foundations”. The article mentions the Gates Foundation investment policy debate from earlier this […]
Charity Evaluation Debate
March 29, 2007 – 8:27 am
Holden is outraged. He believes strongly that metrics are critical. In response to Phil Cubeta telling him “Only a madman would dream of measuring the good, all good, on a single universal scale.” Holden responds: Will you admit that there are good things about modernity? … Forget about a metric to measure "GRAND TOTAL GOOD […]
Giving Carnival Update
March 29, 2007 – 8:17 am
To date, The Giving Carnival has been (in the words of Holden of GiveWell), a “collection of disconnected editorials”. I’d much rather it become (again in Holden’s words) a “space to provide dialogue and constructive criticism”. To that end I’m going to start tracking the debates that ensue and centralizing them here. If the essays […]
The Giving Carnival: Edition 5
March 28, 2007 – 8:50 am
This week’s topic: “How should social impact (or nonprofit effectiveness) be evaluated?” How can we best understand the output of nonprofit or for profit social enterprises? It is not enough to simply say that an organization is “doing good”. How much good are they doing and how effective are they at turning “inputs” (donations and/or […]
Rating Charities: A Qualitative Approach
March 28, 2007 – 8:44 am
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton) Quick, which movie is better? Casablanca or Look Who’s Talking, Too? The Godfather or Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore? Star Wars or Grease 2? How do you know? What metrics are you using? I […]
The Giving Carnival
March 26, 2007 – 8:09 am
Don’t forget to submit or email me your post for the next edition of The Giving Carnival. The deadline is tomorrow night. This week’s topic is, “How should social impact (or nonprofit effectiveness) be evaluated?” How can we best understand the output of nonprofit or for profit social enterprises? It is not enough to simply […]
The Giving Carnival: Edition 5
March 20, 2007 – 7:29 am
I’m still digging out after being gone last week. Tomorrow I’ll be out all day at a planned giving conference in San Francisco. In the meantime, sharpen your pencils…(or I guess, pull out your ergonomic keyboards) and get ready to submit a post to the next Giving Carnival. This week’s topic is, “How should social […]
The Giving Carnival: Special Edition
March 5, 2007 – 7:54 am
This special edition of The Giving Carnival is being jointly hosted by the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants over at Donor Power Blog. Our shared topic is “What donors wish nonprofits knew about them, and vice-versa.” Jeff Brooks, of Donor Power Blog, explains that just like in a marriage, nonprofits need to know what their partners/donors […]
