Estrella Rosenberg wrote a deeply personal and important post on domestic violence this week. May this be a reminder to all of us that chances are good someone we know suffers from this type of terrifying situation. Awareness is everything.
Blackbaud released a new study on charitable giving. A few surprises in the area of social media.
Joe Waters started an excellent discussion of strategy versus tactics and gave us some neat ideas through the A.C. Moore/Easter Seals partnership.
Elaine Cohen did a great piece on The Changing Face of Corporate Philanthropy. The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy had their annual conference in early June. Sounding a lot more like cause-related marketing than philanthropy!
Slate had a nice piece addressing the question of why an individual should give through a company versus writing a check. Featuring the AmEx Members Program.
I did a post on One Slippery Slope of Cause Marketing – still looking for others. Have a few more in my head but want to hear your thoughts!
We learned about amazing small businesses and 5th graders that are pitching in to help in the oil spill tragedy.
We got another CMF10 write up from Chris Mann at Cone.
Business Week came out with their list of most promising social entrepreneurs. Love them all!
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet throw down the gauntlet to their fellow billionaires – you can’t take it with you…do something good!
Ridiculous OpEd in Forbes about how CSR costs enormously with zero benefit. Ick. Ick. Ick.
My personal favorite non-cause-related story. Insect art via PHEROMONE. Way cool.
Image credit to malabooboo.
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Hi, thanks for the mention of my commentary on CSRWire.com on corporate philanthropy. Yes, I agree, I would call it strategy, CRM, community investment… not philanthropy!
elaine
http://www.csr-reporting.blogspot.com