Kelly Phillips Erb at taxgirl responded to a meme about the upcoming federal rebates by tagging me, among other b5media bloggers, to answer a couple of questions:
If you could do whatever you wanted, how would YOU spend your $600?
Is that the same or different from how you actually plan spend it?
Hmm. How much would it […]
Web 2.0, social media, client relations management systems, interactive media, direct mail, e-mail blasts, viral marketing, and on and on and on.
The world demands ever-increasing velocity, and nonprofits are no exception. They’re working like hell — sometimes successfully, sometimes not — to keep up with the changing times and apply new strategies and tactics to […]
We’ve just entered the Chinese Year of the Rat, and if you think the filthy little plague-carriers are as far removed from nonprofits as quarterly dividends, think again.
In Chinese philosophy, the rodent’s ambition, strong will, and self-interest lead to an accumulation of wealth and power. Hey, development staffs, are you listening? Sounds like someone you […]
I have nothing against attractive women striking provocative poses while wearing bikinis — nothing at all — but for the Miss America Organization to try to maintain the relevance of its annual pageant by bathing it in a risque light strikes me as distasteful at best and harmful at worst. Miss Michigan won the crown […]
There’s a great discussion happening over at Gift Hub about whether philanthropic leaders should blog. Blogger Phil Cubeta, a financial services exec who directs his company’s charitable efforts and who calls himself a “morals tutor to America’s wealthiest families,” offers 24 reasons, some of them serious, some of them not, against such public commentary, and […]
One of the nonprofits I support monetarily is Philadelphia’s WXPN-FM, a noncommercial, listener-supported radio station out of the University of Pennsylvania. One of the country’s best stations, ‘XPN has the freedom to play a uniquely diverse collection of music, including work by artists who are far out of the mainstream yet deserve to be heard. […]
A poster at Ask Metafilter yesterday asked, “How do I choose between two equally worthy charities to receive my donation?” He actually had more than two charities to choose from in the area he had opted to support, animal-related organizations, and he added, “Ultimately, what I want is a method to help me identify a […]
The American way is to root hard for the underdog unless and until it triumphs and becomes so successful that it takes the fun away from everyone else trying to do what it does. (See Microsoft and Red Sox, Boston.) I keep waiting for Google to cross that threshold, but it hasn’t happened yet, and […]
It was the most commercial of times, it was the most charitable of times.
Decrying the rampant consumerism of the period between Thanksgiving and December 25 is a fool’s errand. The toothpaste is out of the tube, and there’s no putting it back in. We’re exhorted nearly nonstop to spend, spend, spend, lest our loved ones […]
One of the coolest and least talked-about traits of nonprofits is their diversity. It’s easy to hear the word “nonprofit” and reach into your collection of mental pigeonholes and pull out an upstart organization staffed by crunchy young types who want to save the world. But the sector is so much more than that, a […]
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