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		<title>Fork in the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost two years ago, I shared with you on this blog that I was leaving the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation after nine years to go out on my own, helping organizations with Web and social media strategy. It has been a great couple of years. I made a host of new friends, had a chance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1239&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves Philanthropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few family-based foundations tackle social problems in quite the same way as the Hunt Alternatives Fund, which prides itself on its collaborative, roll-up-your-sleeves, grassroots approach to philanthropy. In the latest installment of our podcast series for the Philanthropy News Digest, co-host Bill Silberg and I talked to Swanee Hunt, founder and chairman of the fund, about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1226&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating Foundation Evaluations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent survey by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) uncovered two facts that shed a bright light on the current state of performance assessment by foundations. On the one hand, more than 90 percent of foundation executives put a high priority on measuring the success of their work. On the other hand, well over half [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1212&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lighten Up, Francis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As they move into the less-buttoned-down world of social media, staff at many organizations face an interesting challenge. Success with social media tools requires that you loosen up a bit, let a little of your personality peek through—even offer a little self-deprecating humor. These are not things that most people are comfortable indulging in as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1188&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Community from Thin Air and Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a major, private foundation asked me early this year to help launch an online community, a bunch of questions swirled in my head. Why would this group—over 900 current scholars and fellows from 18 different programs—want to participate in this community? What is the value for them? Do they think of themselves already as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1158&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Giving</title>
		<link>http://larryblumenthal.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/beyond-giving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her first book, Forces for Good, Leslie Crutchfield and her co-author (Heather McLeod Grant) showed nonprofits how to increase the impact of their work. Now she has set her sights on the other side of the equation—philanthropists. In the latest installment of our monthly podcast series for the Philanthropy News Digest, co-host Bill Silberg and I talked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1134&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Transparency in the World of Philanthropy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paging through the agenda in the lobby outside the Council on Foundations annual meeting earlier this month, one session jumped out at me. Media expert and blogger Jeff Jarvis leading a discussion about what constitutes the &#8220;radically transparent foundation&#8221; looked to be 90 minutes well spent. In the session, Jarvis, who heads the interactive journalism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1105&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harnessing Technology for Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most recent annual conference of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) drew over 2,000 attendees to Washington. That&#8217;s up from about 50 participants 10 years ago when the conference began, an amazing leap in interest. In the latest installment of our monthly podcast series for the Philanthropy News Digest, my colleague Bill Silberg and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1080&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media in a Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after the tsunami struck Japan on March 11, the American Red Cross&#8216; social media team faced a tsunami of its own. The organization is typically mentioned more than 1,500 times a day online. When disaster strikes those numbers rise exponentially, as does the need to get information to the public and coordinate responses. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1057&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Philanthropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Blumenthal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back, fellow consultant Bill Silberg and I began conversations with the smart people at the Foundation Center&#8217;s Philanthropy News Digest about creating a series of podcast conversations. No question philanthropy is changing. Foundations are recognizing that they are more than grant makers. They are in the business of driving social change. They are increasingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=larryblumenthal.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8452372&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=larryblumenthal&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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