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Archive for January, 2010
Government and Politics Watch: White House Urges Foundations to Take Risks
Jan 28th
While President Obama was on Washington’s Capitol Hill reflecting on his first year in office during his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, another top White House official was in Los Angeles urging foundations to take greater risks, reports The Chronicle’s Government and Politics Watch column.
Give and Take: A ‘Fraught’ Relationship With Foundations, Plus More
Jan 28th
In a mock letter to foundation leaders, a charity executive lays out her problems with how grant makers treat nonprofit groups, notes Give and Take, The Chronicle’s roundup of the best blog posts about the nonprofit world.
- Why nonprofit groups should push for changes in state fiscal policies.
- A response to questions about “processing gifts made to the embattled Yéle Haiti Foundation.”
- An examination of giving by the Gannett Foundation.
- A critic moderates his view of the Product Red campaign.
Intern Update: Last Week at the SSE
Jan 28th
So tomorrow will mark Nick Kang and my last day at the London School for Social Entrepreneurs and I don't think either one of us can really believe the month is over already. This experience has been a great start...
Get Your Service Business Off the Ground
Jan 27th
Even if your product doesn't exist yet, you still have to find ways to sell it.
From The Chronicle: Technology Experts Offer Help in Haiti
Jan 27th
As relief work in Haiti continues, a wave of volunteer technology efforts has sprouted up using social media and mobile phones to help the earthquake victims, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.
Haiti Roundup: Travolta Lands With Supplies, Telethon Album Makes Chart History
Jan 27th
The actor John Travolta landed in Haiti Tuesday with a plane full of emergency supplies and members of the Church of Scientology, of which he is a prominent member, reports the Guardian.
Mr. Travolta, who holds a pilot’s license, flew his private Boeing 707 from Florida with six tons of military rations and medical supplies. He also carried Scientologists, who fanned out across Port-au-Prince applying a technique the church believes relieves trauma.
His arrival prompted some grumbling among aid agencies, which have complained about landing priorities at Port-au-Prince’s airport. Hundreds of aircraft are awaiting permission to land at the airport, which has a backlog of at least 800 flights and is under U.S. military control.
In other news, the Hope for Haiti Now album will debut at No. 1 when Billboard’s latest weekly pop chart is issued Wednesday.
The download-only album contains 20 performances from Friday’s Hope for Haiti telethon and will be the first exclusively digital release to top the Billboard 200 chart. Proceeds from the album will go to Haiti relief efforts.
Southern Calif. Institute Gets $50-Million for Medical Research
Jan 27th
The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, in La Jolla, Calif., has received a $50-million gift from T. Denny Sanford, the South Dakota mogul’s second major donation to the facility, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune.
In 2007 Mr. Sanford gave $20-million to the center, which has now been renamed the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. The new money will support institute programs that are not eligible for government grants, with a focus on turning the facility’s research into real-world applications.
San Diego Relief Charity Wins Chase Prize in Facebook Vote
Jan 27th
A San Diego relief charity that provides aid to Uganda has taken home the $1-million first prize in the Chase Community Giving contest, determined in an online vote, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Invisible Children was declared the winner of the JPMorgan Chase giveaway after the voting on social site Facebook closed late Friday night. The group plans to use the prize on water, education, and awareness projects in the African nation, and also pledged $100,000 to Haiti relief.
The contest generated some 11th-hour controversy as the Isha Foundation, a Tennessee charity working in India, gained tens of thousands of votes on the final day, many from users with suspicious-sounding names and largely inactive Facebook accounts, the article says.
Supermarket CEO Donates Much of His Salary to Animal Group
Jan 27th
The founder and chief executive of the Whole Foods supermarket chain has donated most of his 2009 pay to an animal-welfare charity, Inc. reports.
John Mackey gave Global Animal Partnership $379,636, his after-tax earnings on compensation valued at $653,671.
Since 2007 Mr. Mackey, a critic of high CEO wages, has set his salary at $1. The remainder of his pay comes from an incentive bonus plan, the level of which has been frozen.
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