How Not to Handle Succession in the Arts
The most effective bosses wear their power lightly, in cooperation rather than in conflict with the artists they mean to be serving.
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Donna Hill: A Profile in Third Sector Grit
Grit, as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, is a “firmness of mind or spirit, unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger”. The nonprofit sector is great for many reasons, but one of the main reasons for its greatness is what I term, “Third Sector Grit” and it is lived out every day by those whose many stories tell of unyielding courage in the face of hardship. It is a quality that is abundant and at times minimized in the face of “innovation”.
Third Sector Grit is most times demonstrated not in the stories of the sector’s executive leaders; more often it applies to those community champions in each nonprofit who do not have the larger titles but who are individuals that the organization could not move forward without... (continue reading this blog post)
It’s Not about Apple - It’s about Community
There's been some interesting discussion about Apple, donations and This American Life's iPhone application lately that I want to touch on. Not because I'm really all that invested in either pro- or anti- Apple camp, and not because I love This American Life (which I do - and yes, I have donated). It's because this is another example of how our tools are defining community. (Last month's post focused on that topic using Causes, Ideablob and Ning as references for the conversation.) Let's start at the beginning...
A recent conversation sparked on the Ars Technica blog focused on the use of push-notifications by the This American Life application on iPhones... (continue reading this blog post)
TEDxVolcano: Stranded in London
Cara Mertes, the director of the Sundance Institute's documentary film program, called it the first "flash forum" she'd ever attended. Truth is, last night's TEDxVolcano gathering was the first such instant event that any of us had ever attended -- a little over two hours of short talks, film clips and music that had been pulled together (crowdsourced) spontaneously by blogger Nathaniel Whittemore and several other cause-wired souls for the hundreds of Skoll World Forum attendees stranded in London... (continue reading this blog post)
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Bay Area Social Entrepreneurs Talk Funding
Bay Area nonprofit leaders sounded pretty optimistic and focused on growth at a breakfast gathering I attended last week, entitled “Conversations with Social Entrepreneurs: 2010 and Beyond,” sponsored by Commongood Careers and Building Movement Project. At the beginning of the three-hour gathering at a downtown hotel, James Weinberg, founder and CEO of Commongood Careers, had the group of about 50 give a two-word description of how they were feeling… (continue reading this blog post)
28 Days of Black Nonprofit Leaders: Erica Hunt
f you run in social justice philanthropy circles, you’ve probably heard of Erica Hunt, President of the Twenty-First Century Foundation in New York. What you may NOT know is that Erica Hunt is also a marvelous poet. A woman after my own English major, free verse-loving heart… (continue reading this blog post)
Technology’s Positive Impact on Human Rights
The author details a Web that tells stories and exposes human injustice and trauma rather than gossip
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