Archive for September, 2009
Need Wider Feedback on Grant Proposals? Try Facebook
Posted by Larry Blumenthal in Uncategorized on September 29, 2009
When Maine Health Access Foundation launched its Fund for the Future initiative in May it sent a request for proposals through its usual channels. Then it added a new twist. It launched a Facebook page to get broader feedback into the process.
Program Officer Len Bartel (left) explains:
Mentor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend Passes Away
Posted by Larry Blumenthal in Uncategorized on September 21, 2009
I’ve been thinking back through the stories I could tell about Frank Karel, who died on Saturday.
His obituary certainly captures his extraordinary contribution to philanthropy, but what I remember most was the man himself. It was Frank who hired me at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and I had the great privilege of working with him for six months before he moved on to a retirement that was as full as his worklife until he was slowed by the cancer that ultimately claimed him.
Knight Foundation Looking for Social Media Superstar
Posted by Larry Blumenthal in Uncategorized on September 18, 2009
I noticed the other day that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami is looking for a community manager. There aren’t too many major private foundations that have embraced the need for a community manager, yet, so I gave their V.P. Communications Marc Fest (left) a quick call to find out more.
Go Ahead, Jump In Already
Posted by Larry Blumenthal in Uncategorized on September 14, 2009
I’ll be the first to admit that when we launched a Twitter feed for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation last December, we had no strategy and little idea of what we were getting into. In the words of my Aunt Winnifred – the one with an unexplained scar from a knife fight on the side of her face—we had less sense of direction than a headless man on a Tilt-a-Whirl.