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15 November 2011
Helen Lieberman AGM 2010 2011
2 June 2011
2 June 2011
4 April 2011
Anyone who wants to seriously engage in giving faces two important questions: where can you make the biggest impact, and how do you structure your giving so it’s effective
9 February 2011
This is a great article by William Foster and Susan Wolf Ditkoff.
It appeared in the Harvard Business Review January February 2011
15 December 2010
16 November 2010
A great article that illustrates what a small philanthropic world we live in. Read this great article about all the 'new' philanthropic initiatives happening in Canada are already mirrored here in Australia.
Elisa Birnbaum is a freelance journalist, producer and communications consultant living in Toronto. She is also president of Elle Communications and can be reached at: info@ellecommunications.ca.
This article was published in www.CharityVillage.com
16 November 2010
The Giving (R)evolution
9 September 2010
10 August 2010
An interesting American article from Robert Evans and Avrum Lapin on an intersting trend of Jewish Giving.
The list of the 60 top charitable contributions in 2008 includes some remarkable gifts. They totaled $15.78 billion, up from a cumulative total of $7.79 billion in 2007, which was the best year ever for recorded charitable giving in the United States. That said, we wonder aloud how the Jewish donors on the list are making their Jewish charitable decisions and why their giving has not been directed for Jewish priorities.
10 August 2010
The chart below, written by Robert Hyfler, suggests five steps in the development of the Jewish philanthropist and maturation of philanthropic foundations and grant making/funding entities. Attention to this ladder of development can lead to strategies to move along a path of communal engagment and can be a useful tool in assessing the current midnset of funders and potential funders. Note that the "virtue' in each step is often retained as the individual or philanthropic entity progerssess to the next step.
28 April 2010
Australian Jewish Funders Conference 2010
9 March 2010
The Advantage of Cluster Funding
Cluster Funding provides a positive framework for grantmaking in this time of economic crisis, ensuring that stretched resources are well used, disadvantage is addressed with long-term ositive outcomes, and people are recognised for who they are and what they have to offer.
1 March 2010
An honest assessment for how to determine your individual relationship with charitable giving in today's world
11 November 2009
by Bob Goldfarb in ephilanthropy.com.au 10 November 2009
It is certainly in everyone's interest to spend money wisely. But when it comes to evaluating the results, it's all too easy to assume that methodologies and numbers are objective and that strategic success can be quantified. It's true that you can count students enrolled at a school, hot meals served at a soup kitchen, or attendance at an art exhibition. It's not so easy to measure how good the teachers are, the overall well-being of the clients of the soup kitchen, or the quality of the art on display.