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.

Cause Marketing Forum Wrap-Ups

So many great wrap-ups from the Cause Marketing Forum Conference last week.

3BL Media (one of my new faves) tirelessly captured featured presenters on video.  If you haven’t watched, do, they’re worth your time.

Joe Waters had 2 great posts.  His first, a Review of Cause Marketing Forum Conference.  The second, Raising Cause Marketing, more of a lessons learned and internalized.

And if you love Joe Waters, you MUST see this video of Chris Noble channeling Joe Waters.

The Komen saga continued with the Finger Lickin’ Failure post from Estrella Rosenberg and one from yours truly, Komen Strives for Market Domination.  Comments abounded.

Bob Gilbreath did a nice overview of his takeaways and programs that caught his attention.

My other post was Cause Marketing 2.0 – Where Do We Go From Here?

Sustainable Brands 2010 Conference

Another conference to watch.  Just one review I’ve seen so far and will look forward to others next week.

In the Gulf

We’re starting to hear more reports of donations coming in to benefit the Gulf Oil Spill. If you haven’t seen it yet, the Colbert Report got Bing to donate $100,000 in product mentions – good for a laugh for sure.

Chris MacDonald did a great post entitled Boycotting BP is Futile and Unethical.  While not cause marketing, per se, it does illuminate how complicated these issues can be.

Facebook Gets Smart

Rumors were confirmed this week that Facebook will partner with the PTA to address child privacy issues.  Now that’s a cause campaign worth watching!

In Other News

Fenton Released their 2010 NonProfit Forecast with some interesting stats.

MIT/Sloan did an outstanding article entitled the The Change Leadership Sustainability Demands.  Long but worth it!

What did I miss?!?

Image credit to Daniel Dionne.