I am in New York this week for “Feast on Good” social enterprise conference, and to work on a social accounting project called the Transformation Index, and then off to Atlanta on Friday for meetings there on Saturday. Sat evening in Atlanta is free. Any ideas. feast, social media, social web
Read More100 Incredible Philanthropy Blogs
A list of 100 Incredible Philanthropy blogs has just been released. They kindly sent me an email to tell my that my blog was on the list. Thanks!!!! I am listed under the ‘faith based philanthropy’ section along with some other blogs that are worth checking out. A blog that should have been on that…
Read MoreMoney for Missions: The Big and the Small of it
This week I was on the phone with an Executive Director of a Foundation that gives millions of dollars to missions. Things are tight right now for them, as they are for many other faith-based Foundations, but they are doing their best to keep commitments to missionaries. Not easy during this recession when the returns…
Read MoreLarry’s Recession and the Debt-Dependent Church
Larry Burkett's videos were hugely popular when we watched them in the 1980's. He wore the same hideous brown suit for every video which we thought was funny but we also wondered if he only owned one suit to cut expenses. His teaching videos were about living debt-free and managing your money according to Biblical…
Read MoreRecession Busting Ideas for Global Mission
Thanks everyone for your input. For those that were not here over the past week, here is a summary of the conversation about mission, church, and how we can get over the recession. Top 5 Ways for Ministries to Get Over the Recession Recession: The Carnival is Over Recession: How Bad is it? Other bloggers/writers…
Read MoreEnvironmental Impact and Our Philanthropic Footprint
Alex Steffen suggests 3 new rules of major philanthropy in his article Our Philanthropic Footprint: 1. Practice holistic assessment. 2. Seek transformative impact. 3. Offer utter transparency Holistic assessment must deal with environmental impact of our investment and here is where I see a storm coming for Christian ministries and Foundations that have not given…
Read MoreOn Going Fourth
So it’s like 3 FLIPPIN’ A.M. and I cant sleep and my mind is churning over and I am solving the worlds problems when I should be snoozing. Again. I have recently requested some funds for a number of social enterprises. What was keeping me up was the measurement criteria for a global mission fund…
Read MoreWorld of Good on ebay
“4 billion people—often in developing nations—earn $1,500/year, and most businesses traditionally view these people as customers. WorldofGood.com wanted to inverse this fundamental approach. “We flipped it on its head,” said Chatwani. “Instead of bringing products into those markets, we are pulling out products from those areas with entrepreneurs.” TriplePundit Ebay launches World of Good, a…
Read MoreSweet Notions: Another exciting social enterprise
Shannon: “In this part of the venture we are getting people to think how they support missional activity beyond just writing a check, asking them to actually take the time and see what they have and then we turn that into capital. It also gets people thinking about other innovative ways to engage in kingdom…
Read MorePhilanthropy’s New Passing Gear
New PDF from the Rockafeller Foundation called Philanthropy’s New Passing Gear: Mission-Related Investing which is described as “A Policy and Implementation Guide for Foundation Trustees” Technorati Tags: philanthropy
Read MoreWikinomics and Mission
I said a few words at church yesterday about transparency and generosity and made a reference to a book called Wikinomics as well as the Bible. It was an open mike session rather than a single preacher and I followed James Stockan, Councillor and Vice Convenor of Orkney. Which was a tough act to follow…
Read MoreThe Sorting Room Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony for The Sorting Room went really well. Councillor James Stockan cut the ribbon and Rev. Fiona Lille gave a blessing and prayed for God’s favour. We had hundreds of helium balloons and hot chai on the Rayburn solid fuel stove that we just installed yesterday (pheeeeew!) Thanks everyone for coming and making…
Read MoreLee Behar and Fundraising
Conversations on the finer points of theology and emerging forms of church come and go . .. . but the subject of how to raise money for your ministry is a perennial issue. I didn't mention my good friend Lee Behar last week in my series on philanthropy, even though he was at PIGS, an…
Read MoreMicro-Philanthropy
– Peter Dietz has some good reflections on the Philanthropy 2.0 session (didn’t someone want to drop that buzz word this year?) at Council of Foundations this week. Good links and a video Related: TSK on Philanthropy, and Emerging Philanthropy Technorati Tags: COF2008, philanthropy, social enterprise
Read MorePIGS: The Other Foundations Conference
“Our philanthropy must be self-sacrificial, other-centred, and generously cooperative in contributing to a society in need . . . It’s all about giving it away to remind our society of the love the Father has for our world.” Mark Petersen, Bridgeway Foundation (Canada), blogging from PIGS. Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy has asked me for…
Read MoreCouncil on Foundations: Tuesday
“Together, we can create a model that is simple, sustainable, and successful. We call it “The Power of Us” and there’s room, reason, and benefits, for everyone.” The End of Philanthropy, by Marc Benioff of the Huffington Post – Diane Sieger is not coming and she tells us why. – Carla Javits estimates 3500 participants…
Read MoreEmerging Philanthropy Spotlight No. 1: The Indian Taxi Fund
“So here’s my modest/ambitious proposal . . . create a scale-free network that doesn’t rely on multiple lines going to one source. To get rid of the lines altogether and create spiders. And to leverage the crowdsourcing of blogs and the benevolence of businesses and individuals.” Josh Brown, My Proposal. A great example of emerging…
Read MorePhilanthropy at COF: blogs, buzzwords and books
“You are a better grantmaker if you do blogs.” Susan Berresford (ex-Ford Foundation) at the Emerging Leaders Salon, Council on Foundations 2008 “Bloggers are not reporters . . . they bring a multi-disciplinary approach to thinking about philanthropy.” Sean S.S, Tactical Philanthropy on bloggers. Blogs to watch this week from the Conference: – Tactical Philanthropy,…
Read MoreEmerging Philanthropy – next week.
The COF (Council on Foundations) Summit starts on Sunday. A Tactical Philanthropy blogging team is in place. RSS is here. Tag is “COF2008” During next week, I will be exploring the idea of emerging philanthropy, the new ways in which web 2.0 is affecting the resourcing and reporting of social enterprise projects, and i want…
Read MoreMore Emerging Philanthropy
I have been amazed to see the changes in philanthropy over the past year due to emergent thinking and web 2.0 technology. Some of this was highlighted yesterday in the Financial Times in an article entitled Charity No Longer Belongs at Home. Websites mentioned are Kiva.org (small loans for third world entrepreneurs) and Innocentive.com (matching…
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