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Search the database of community services online or call 2-1-1 to speak to a representative. Habla espanol. Click here to get started.Somewhere between “a living wage” and Dan Pallotta is the truth. To ask a nonprofit professional – and in particular, those who actually have to work to earn a living – to make less money than their for-profit peers is to take advantage of their compassion and altruism. People (not so much those who...
Oh, haters. I understand you. I am one, too — critical of anything that looks too cool, to0 simple or too clever. I’m the one who coined the term “slacktivism” in the first place … well, I mean, I used it on this blog about a year ago, before it was cool. (Is it...
“Welcome to nonprofit world.” What the hell is that supposed to mean? Like you nonprofit people have such a uniquely sucky work situation. Have you ever worked at an ad agency? For the state? At a start-up? In retail?! Work in one of those places, then give me a call and we’ll chat about...
Okay, an amendment to a previous post… Backstory: In March, I wrote a post about Southwest Key’s efforts to improve the educational opportunities and help strengthen the community for the people living where Southwest Key lives, Central East Austin around the former Johnston High School, now Eastside Memorial High School. In that post, I...
Last fall I was chatting with Alan Graham at some event when he asked me, “So did I see something in one of your Tweets about custom publishing?” And that’s how 12 Baskets started. Six months later, we’re about to launch the first magazine issue, timed to coordinate with the launch of a huge...
Is it possible that after three years of immersing myself in the Central Texas nonprofit community – as part of our mission to bring more Central Texans into philanthropy – that I am still completely clueless about how the system actually works. And I don’t mean I don’t understand a process, I mean I...
We really like follow-up stories like this. In the last issue of GivingCity Austin (link opens PDF), we ran a story about the Texas State Employees Charitable Campaign and how Central Texans who work for the state donate a phenomenal amount of their paychecks to the local nonprofit community. In 2008, donations from Central Texas...
Social media has given voice to the individual philanthropist and there is a great deal of good that can come from opening up the process of philanthropy and helping redefine what it means to champion a cause you personally care about. - Kari Dunn Saratovsky, Vice President of Social Innovation at the Case Foundation...
Since the beginning, one of the killer apps (does anyone use that term anymore?) we planned for GivingCity Austin was a fundraising events calendar. If you’ve ever tried to organize a fundraiser for a nonprofit organization, one of the hardest things to come up with was the date – you don’t want to compete...
Social entrepreneurism is an important model to observe and perfect if we’re going to make fundamental changes. It’s also important that we define and support it… and that’s not always easy to do. When I interviewed Laurie Loew last year, what she told me about being a social entrepreneur stuck with me. Laurie is an...
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