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Too Much Charity?

A recent edition of the Chronicle’s online Philanthropy Today got me scratching my head. One piece, Mass Charities Urged to Merge and Pool Resources, reported that the Boston Foundation was urging the 36,000 nonprofits in Massachusetts to consider either merging or at least sharing resources with their like-minded compatriots. Their message … too many groups […]

Learn More June 13, 2008

The Girl Effect

Global Giving, founded and run by brilliant social entrepreneur Dennis Whittle, is one of my favorites. Dennis left his cushy World Bank job to raise a little social hell and do a whole world of good. Check out Global Giving’s latest flash/splash animation "The Girl Effect" for a lesson in how to do things right […]

Learn More June 12, 2008

Vote For Best Tagline

Blogger Nancy Schwartz asks you to vote for best nonprofit taglines in a number of categories. She’s offered the best from over one thousand entries. You can vote here. Personally, only two or three rang my chimes. Too many failed to help establish any point of differentiation from other similarly-focused "competitive" organizations. Assuming the tagline […]

Learn More June 11, 2008

Postal Mail Lives

Agitator aficionado Bob Roth alerted us to a piece in e-Marketer reporting on the just-released “2008 Channel Preference Survey” from email marketing firm ExactTarget.Bottom Line: The preferred personal comunications channels — phone, email, text and instant messaging — are not necessarily the preferred channels for marketing. On a scale of 1 to 5, respondents gave […]

Learn More June 10, 2008

This Brave Nation

Dear Reader, Permit me a personal moment. Like you, I often wonder why I do what I do. And because I’ve done it for so long, I sometimes wonder whether it all was worth it. Well, make no mistake. It was and is. Especially when the reasons are so graphically and emotionally recorded on film. […]

Learn More June 9, 2008

Did You Say A Half-Billion?!

Courtesy of Don’t Tell the Donor blog, I just saw Convio’s reaction to Blackbaud’s purchase of rival Kintera. In it, Convio CEO Gene Austin comments that in April alone, Convio processed over $41 million in online contributions for its clients. So here’s my question for you, Gene … Are you ready to predict a $500,000,000 […]

Learn More June 5, 2008