A few readers of this blog and listeners to the Social Good podcast have asked why I am in favor of online funding contests, like Chase Bank’s Facebook Challenge which I wrote about last week.
However, at other times I have written about the...
Chase Bank is sponsoring a $5 million giving program for the holidays. Yup, that’s $5 MILLION they’re giving away on Facebook to nonprofits. Voting ends this Friday, December 11th.
What is so fun about watching the giving challenges and contests unfold...
Well, there, Lucy goes again being super smart! Lucy, Ed Skloot and Barry Varela of Duke University have just released a draft of their paper called “Disrupting Philanthropy.” I had read and commented on an earlier draft of the paper and am delighted...
I’d like to thank the many folks who read and commented on my post last week about Women, Social Media and Influence. Here is what I learned:
There is interest in measuring the influence of women using social media;
The unique characteristics of...
My friend Linda Tarr-Whelan, a colleague at Demos, published a wonderful book this year called Women Lead the Way. In the book, Linda outlines the distressingly dismal statistics of the flatlining of women’s leadership in all three sectors. For...
