I’m headed back to DC this evening, dead-tired & WAY energized at the same time by all the great people I’ve met over the past 48 hours, but ready to get up and do it all over again at the last day of the Council on Foundations Philanthropy Summit tomorrow. The audience for my panel [...]
Terri Lee Freeman Talks About Scale
Susan Herr at Philanthromedia tips us off to a bite-sized video clip of Terri Lee Freeman, President of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region and one of my nonprofit idols. Terri says scale is not always good: “Donors have to be careful of creating monsters that can’t be sustained, effective monsters even, that [...]
More From the AFP Bridge Conference
My experience at the Bridge Conference today was a bit different than yesterday since I was a volunteer room monitor for the session track on Foundation & Corporate Partnerships all day. I called myself trying to be strategic with the track I picked since those are the 2 main types of fundraising that I do [...]
Blogging From the AFP Bridge Conference
“We need to make our donors feel good all over again about giving to our organizations.” – comment made today by a Bridge Conference attendee Today and tomorrow I am at the Bridge Conference here in DC. If you’re like me, the Bridge Conference description gets you all hot under the collar: the conference features [...]
You Don’t Have to Have an American Express Card to Make a Difference
I’m sure by now, everyone who owns a television has seen American Express’ commercial for their new Members Project. The Members Project is a new initiative that gives American Express cardholders the chance to vote for one idea that will have a positive impact in the world. No, it’s not deja-vu, it’s just kind of [...]
Blogging From Black Philanthropy: We Have to Fund the Revolution
I’m in the afternoon panel session for the capstone topic of the conference, “Philanthropy and the Covenant with Black America” in a packed room. I see a video guy, so I hope the conversation gets posted on the web somewhere. Here are many of the thought leaders of color key to the nonprofit, education, and [...]
Blogging From Black Philanthropy: Bruce Gordon Speaks!
Bruce Gordon, the very recent former president of the NAACP was the keynote speaker at the conference lunch today. I had never heard him speak before, and I was also curious as to whether he would talk about his experience leading the NAACP. Well, he did, even if only from a broad standpoint. After hearing [...]
