May 3, 2010
This is a topic that I’ve been wrestling with for a long time and especially since the party ended 18 months ago. My interest in these posts is not about leadership of the philanthropic sector itself—as important
Category: Leadership
February 26, 2010
“Liberia is not a poor country. It is a country that has been managed poorly,” according Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s president and Africa’s first female head of state.
Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of
February 2, 2010
The five-year anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are coming up this fall, and to mark the occasion more than 30 organization are gathering in New Orleans next month at a conference called Katrina @ 5: Partners
December 11, 2009
Today, in my final post, I want to offer specific suggestions for Intrepid Philanthropists who want to maximize the upsides of transparency.
I want to start about by acknowledging—transparently—that my preaching below is ahead of my practice.
December 10, 2009
As I explored yesterday, there’s a dark side to the Transparency Revolution and the Web 2.0 tools that are powering it. We need to face that reality squarely—as many failed to do at the dawn of
December 8, 2009
Picking up where I left off yesterday, I want to sketch out some of the ways the Transparency Revolution is changing fundamental dynamics in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Private Sector
Consumers will gain more