Vancouver-based Telus Corp. has become the first Canadian company to be named the top philanthropic corporation of the year by the Association of Funding Professionals.
With 30,000 members and more than 2,000 chapters around the world, the AFP awarded Telus the 2010 Freeman Philanthropic Services Award for Outstanding Corporation after the telecommunications giant was nominated by [...]
Filed under: News on February 2nd, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, economy, entrepreneur, innovation, Technology
The earthquake that hit Haiti last Tuesday has prompted an unprecedented flurry of donations that vastly exceeds the amount raised for previous international catastrophes over the same number of days.
Donors have already contributed more than $150 million to major U.S. relief groups for the catastrophe in Haiti. By comparison, such charities had only raised around [...]
Filed under: News on January 19th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: charity, Community, Environment, global, philanthropy, sharing, strategy
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced it’s going to use a philanthropic vehicle called program related investments (PRI) through the creation of a $400 million fund. PRIs are new and largely unused investments that allow a philanthropy to achieve its charitable mission.
The other part of the story is about L3Cs, which are a [...]
Filed under: News, Uncategorized on January 4th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: alternative, charity, funding, giving, investing, News, philanthropy
According to a recent report by Reuters AlertNet, international aid agencies have been forced to scale back their operations due to the global economic downturn and falling donations, and face the possibility of having to take more extreme measures in 2010.
Although some countries and regions are showing signs of recovery, charitable giving around the globe [...]
Filed under: News on December 31st, 2009 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: charity, currency, donations, global economy, international aid, philanthropy, recovery, relief groups
According to a recent survey conducted by Forrester’s Technographics, U.S. online giving to nonprofits will top $4 billion this holiday season, with more than 111 million people saying they plan to give via the Internet.
The Omnibus Online survey found that more than 63% of American online consumers plan to donate to a charity of their [...]
Filed under: News on December 9th, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
Tagged with: charity, economy, internet, philanthropy
I’ve written about the crowd sourcing model for funding previously, both as it applies to charities with social media-styled Jolkona and artistic endeavors in the form of Kickstarter, and now I see today on ReadWriteWeb that this concept is being applied in similar ways with several new models.
Spot.us funds citizen journalism, SellABand allows fans to help [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Business, News on August 25th, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
Tagged with: charity, Contenture, crowd sourced, donation, entrepreneur, funding, innovation, investing, investment, Kickstarter, micro funding, resources, SellABand, Spot.us, start-up, startup, success
Seth Godin has a thought provoking piece on what he refers to as patient capital, an idea that itself exists on the wisdom offered by the proverbial “teach a man to fish” point of view.
Godin illustrates the cycle of poverty, pointing to the fact that its very existence is predicated on the fact that [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on August 21st, 2009 @ 6:42 pm
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, entrepreneur, funding, investing, investment, markets, opportunities, opportunity, poverty, sustainability
The Guardian has a very thoughtful piece about the unfortunate disconnect that exists in developing nations where it’s easier to get a bottle of Coca-Cola than it is to get life-saving medicines for very treatable diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. While many of the problems associated with dispensing adequate treatment can be attributed to corruption, [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 20th, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
Tagged with: brands, Business, charity, Coca-Cola, distribution channels, global, government, innovation, innovative, markets, medicine, non-profit, opportunities, opportunity, philanthropy
I’ve often written that non-profits and charities world be well served by taking cues from the business world by developing practices such as performance evaluations and affinity marketing to grow their reach and fundraising capabilities, but acquiring public companies is not something I would have thought to suggest. But that exactly what UK-based Housing 21, [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on August 19th, 2009 @ 5:06 pm
Tagged with: Acquisitions, Business, charity, deal, economy, markets, non-profit, opportunities, opportunity, strategies, strategy, success
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.