Interview: Marnie Webb on NetSquared's experience with public participation in grantmaking

Eric: Why not just have experts help develop ideas and directly fund them? Marnie: There are many people — universities, foundations, private individuals — who find experts, give them resources to develop amazing and elegant solutions and fund them. That’s a model that has been around for a long time and, like any model, it has its strengths and weaknesses. We wanted to do something different with NetSquared.

Katine project shows development and its beneficiaries

Just where are we paying attention?

I like Apple’s computers and phones. (It’s a vice, I know.) Over the past couple of weeks all of this iPad, iPhone iNews has allowed for plenty of indulgence of that vice. But yesterday, Steve Jobs said something that could impact how people find nonprofits - and everybody else - online. He said folks using the iPhone: Spend about 30 minutes a day using apps Are using apps, not searching

The hardest working mustache in nonprofits

Four Lessons from the Kiva Debate

My post on the Case Foundation blog this week sums up the debate over Kiva and person-to-person fundraising. Plus audio, for your pod-listening pleasure.

Social cause innovation - More, please?

Geoff Livingston responds to Kristin Ivie and my previous posts about new nonprofits.

Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems

David Roodman’s long post is a great explanation of how Kiva works. It’s also critical of the way Kiva markets.

People start pollution. People can stop it.

On Earth Day, 1971, a nonprofit called Keep America Beautiful launched TV ads to persuade people to stop littering.

Think before you leap: Four truths about starting a nonprofit

Kristin, my colleague at the Case Foundation, has some good advice for folks thinking of starting their own nonprofit: think twice. http://www.socialcitizens.org/blog/start-nonprofit