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AMERICA REIMAGINED
November 4, 2009 Every year, the quaint seaside town of Camden, Maine is transformed into a festival of ideas. Just before the local inns and restaurants shutter themselves against the long, cold winter, they host a gathering of leading artists, technologists, musicians, authors, scientists, and social innovators—the hundreds of participants…
NO SOLICITATION, PLEASE
November 3, 2009 Today in Detroit, Independent Sector is once again assembling an impressive assembly of grantmakers, nonprofit leaders, business executives and public officials at its annual conference. This gathering will confront the most pressing issues facing the nonprofit sector, our nation, and in particular our most troubled cities, like the Motor City…
GET OUT AND VOTE!
November 2, 2009 All across the nation, voters will be heading to the polls tomorrow. Although it’s not an election to compare with last year’s epic Presidential campaign, there are important races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey and mayoral races in New York, Houston, Miami, and several other…
SOCIAL IMPACT EXCHANGE IN WSJ, BLOGS
October 28, 2009 Social Impact Exchange, a project of CSPCS, Growth Philanthropy Network, and the Fuqua School’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, is beginning to receive some attention in the press and in the blogs. The Wall Street Journal mentions SIE here, and PhilanTopic, the blog of Philanthropy News Digest, discusses…
PHILANTHROPY’S PATIENT CAPITAL
October 23, 2009 Often times, philanthropy requires patience. We can research an issue, develop a policy framework, plan an education and awareness strategy, activate our advocates, and build our coalition of partners. It can take years to build a credible presence in a certain subject area, but it isn’t always easy to…
IMPROVING CENSUS DATA
October 22, 2009 Participation in the 2010 census is a huge opportunity to shape the distribution of roughly $400 billion a year in federal funds to state and local governments. Census data guide government decisions about where to build new roads, schools, and hospitals, and where to locate job training centers…
THE PROBLEM OF YOUTH VIOLENCE
October 21, 2009 Chicago gets lots of attention these days, both good and bad. It’s a beautiful, wonderful, complicated, and diverse city, with great assets but many challenges. Most recently, the beating death of a Chicago public school student was videotaped and displayed on YouTube for the world to see. The…
DESIGNING EFFORTS AND CHARTING COURSES OF ACTION
October 20, 2009 If philanthropy is an active effort to promote human welfare, how do we design our individual or collective efforts and chart a course of action to promote the welfare of our communities? At Joyce, we begin with the premise that we have a vested interest in shaping…
REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
October 19, 2009 Imagination is a powerful force. The human capacity to look at a problem, and imagine a way to solve it, lies at the heart of the progress and innovation for which our nation is so justly proud. At the moment our country, and the Midwest in particular, face…
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