Seth Godin has a great post from yesterday called “Let me see.“ It’s 18 ideas of how to present data in a way that is more valuable - such as a list of doctors in my down sorted by malpractice rate or car models sorted by crash and repair data (I’d add injuries and fatalities [...]
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A while back I was on a call with a guy who used to be part of one of the large donor advised funds. We got onto to a conversation about categorizing your charities and how we were using NTEE (National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities) Codes and IRS Activity Codes to do this. His take? [...]
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I had a great meeting earlier today with Drew West, founder of AuctionPal. After describing the core of our system he used the term “giving footprint” to describe one of the aspects of the site. I like it - it’s succinct, only has to be defined once, and parallels other usages such as [...]
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In reading Peter Frumkin’s book, Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy, there’s a discussion about the difference between a charity and a philanthropy.
Dictionary.com defines charity as “generous actions or donations to aid the poor, ill, or helpless,” and philanthropy as “altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, [...]
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