Giving on your side
Have you heard that social justice advocates are targeting the next generation of philanthropists? Perhaps they have given up on us already? Well, this hasn't stopped Greenpeace activists from continuing to get themselves arrested. Hmm, do you think that perhaps donating to the Gates Foundation might be an easier way of influencing public policy?Now one of this year's most talked about
Say, do you know how rich you are? If you live in the U.S. and are reading this blog, I bet you are among the top 1% in the world. Guess what? You can now cleanse your guilt by trading away your carbon. Better than a trip to weekly confession for sure.
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Gayle,a minor point in a way, but one that would matter to Sean and to me too. Frumkin's book is oriented to the funder, to the supply side of philanthropy, to the donor, or as we would say, to "the client." So it is not a fundraising book, but a book about how those with philanthropic capital can best deploy it.
The conversation on blogs in which "giving blogs" means both supply side and demand side has interesting potential to create real world alliances and networks that would include donors, fundraisers, nonprofits, financial services organizations, foundations, to uplift the field - increase total giving and make the gifts for effective.
That is the dream of Inspired Legacies, and was the founding hope of Gifthub.
Sean too is coming at the scene from the donor-advisor perspective, as would be say, Peter Karoff and colleagues at The Philanthropic Initiative (tpi.org).
"Partnering with Advisors for Inspired Legacies" that is the title of a talk for donors that I am working on these days to be given under the auspices of a nonprofit.
Phil,
Point well taken. I'm a big Tracy Gary fan, an underlined copy Inspired Legacy is on my shelf. But, I don't think I've been paying enough attention to this distinction between the "supply and demand" side of our field during my new adventures into the blogosphere.
My intent with this post was less a comment on Frumkin, rather more my honest belief that Sean has a book in him that is dying to get out, and should be written. While also glibbly commenting on "strategic" and "tactical," language whose usage too often borders on jargon.
So if the demand side perspective is one of the fundraiser, than it is people like Jeff Brooks whom I have come to admire in my recent travels. If the supply side is represented by the "Morals Tutor to America's Wealthiest Families," than it would than be your writing I look too. Thank so much for your feedback and encouragement.
Peace,
Gayle
Gayle, thank you for your kind comments. I think the Tactical side of giving is a field that has much to be discussed/explored. The feedback from people like you and Phil to my early attempts at blogging has been wonderful.
Phil makes an important distinction between the demand and supply side. The recent Fast Company and Chronicle on Philanthropy blog articles failed to separate these two fields.
I think the general failure to distinguish between philanthropic strategy and tactics is similar. Before I started blogging, Google had 94,500 hits for the phrase Strategic Philanthropy and two for Tactical Philanthropy. Since you can have no effective strategy with out tactics, I thought there might be something I could add. Although I'd have to say, I'm a long way from a book for now!
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