The Donor power Blog made me smile with this post, brought to my attention by Nonprofit Curmudgeon. google
Win a Sony PS3 and support young homeless people
I wouldn’t normally write about specific competitions or even gadgets, but Jane Slowey (once my boss for a few months) e-mailed me about a tie-in between her organisation The Foyer Federation and Dixons and I really want others to blog about it. After all it’s a huge improvement on reports that homeless people were paid …
Time to capture the Dark Matter
David Wilcox has just put up a post which helps think about the relationship between formal and informal structures – whether in non-profit or profit organisations. He cites a thought which popped into the head of Lloyd Davis at It’s Social Stupid. It occurs to Lloyd that creativity most often happens in the ‘shadows’ – …
Money Matters – but not to success.
I was reading parts of the draft of Charles Leadbeater’s new book We-Think. (well worth a good mooch – and you can comment before he publishes.) He’s grappling with a leadership dilemma part of which can be summed up as: if organisations and professionalism are so precious to us, why are modest online structures able …