It has been 5 months since I last blogged. A lot has happened during that time: Twitter has become more popular; facebook is going public ; Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston and North Korea’s evil dictator all died; we started a new year; the economy is showing signs of turning around; and I……..completed my graduate work, [...]
Is Crowdrise the next big thing in Philanthropy? Ed Norton thinks so. I am a big fan of Ed’s. I not only love his movies, but I also love that he “gets it” when it comes to activism and philanthropy. It officially launched in May of 2010. I know what you are thinking – “Beth [...]
The Giving Pledge was in the news again this week. 17 more super wealthy people committed to giving away half of their wealth to charity. Sounds great to me, but it seems some want to complain about it. According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Some nonprofit experts are concerned, though, about how quickly the pledges [...]
There was a headline last week in the Dallas Morning News about a gay father who was told he could not lead his son’s Cub Scout pack. No one should be surprised by this. Boy Scouts of America has made it quite clear that they will continue to discriminate against homosexuals. I bring this to my [...]
Image: Filomena Scalise / FreeDigitalPhotos.net There is a lot of buzz today about a report that was released by The Foundation Center discussing that foundation leaders are not regularly using Social Media. They examined a sample of foundation leaders use of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, or reading blogs. Personally, I was mostly interested in how many of them are reading blogs. Of the 13 [...]
