Scale or Depth
Tomorrow I am teaching a class on how social entrepreneurs address really big problems. We’ll be over simplifying for the purposes of our 1hr 15 min class, but basically discussing two methods of...
View ArticleDo Good Better: The Blog
We are officially 2 weeks in to our brand spankin’ new course on Social Innovation - Do Good Better. So far, so good. We’re piloting the class to a small group of students at Brigham Young...
View ArticleInformation Smorgasbord
Thanks to the internet (and google) we have almost endless information and resources at our fingertips. We can access the life work, groundbreaking ideas, and carefully developed resources of experts...
View ArticleSalesforce Update
At the end of last year we published a blog post declaring our plans to do a second major re-configuration of our Salesforce platform. 8 months later we are proud to declare that the project is done...
View ArticleOprah (with a beard) for the Social Sector
A few months back I fed myself to the lions. I sat opposite the tenacious Jonathan Lewis, as he put me in the iOnPoverty hot seat, and fired questions at me under the glare of studio lights and flash...
View ArticlePhilanthropy Misbehaving
This week I heard a couple of fund raising horror stories. I was appalled by the behaviour of my fellow funding professionals. They are outliers, for sure, but it saddened me to hear of those few who...
View Article10 Nuggets of Wisdom for SE's (and the rest of us)
From the Draper Richards Kaplan retreat, last week: - Fire faster: Personnel problems tend to age more like milk than wine. - Exercise: This is non-negotiable if you are in this for the long run. -...
View ArticleEmpathy
I think about empathy quite a lot, both in the context of my own ability to feel empathy for others, and the context of philanthropy at the PF, where we see high or low levels empathy have dramatic...
View ArticlePF Ticker
For your interest, a small grab bag of numbers from the PF over the last two months: Grants 29 (programmatic and family giving) Board meetings 1 Calls 82 Meetings/site visits/events 53 PF team house...
View ArticleAnother Social Media Experiment
We decided to try out Pinterest. There’s so much ‘stuff’ that comes across our desks and inboxes that could be useful to someone, so we’ve been looking for a good way to share cool things we find and...
View ArticleThe love-hate Salesforce ratio
We’ve been using Salesforce for a while now. Some days it fills me with hope for a future filled with cool useful stuff our organised data will help us discover. Others it makes me want to throw my...
View ArticleWhy Blog?
Dave just informed me we are launching our blog. There’s a slight twinge of panic, as I think about the expectation to verbalise something different or new or interesting about what we or I do each...
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Welcome to the PF Whiteboard...finally!
We’ve been talking about launching this blog for some time, but it’s time to quit talking and just get it going! I’ve feared the prospect of suddenly having extra homework - but have also found the...
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