Philanthropy
Bloggers Cover the Council on Foundations Annual Conference
Accessing news on the foundations' leadership summit.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy 2.0: A Video Q&A
Some key online philanthropy sites, and tips for foundations looking to push the envelope.
Philanthropy
The Davos of Philanthropy: First Impressions
A bloggers' impressions of the Council on Foundations conference.
Podcast
Kim Feinberg - Self-Sufficiency Through Education
AIDS in South Africa has left millions of children without parents or any resources to help themselves. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, Kim Feinberg describes how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults.
Podcast
Natalie Portman - Eradicating Poverty Through Microfinance
One of the biggest problems that low-income people around the world face is the lack of access to capital that might otherwise help them rise out of poverty. Invited to Stanford, actress Natalie Portman turns the spotlight on her work to promote FINCA's International Village Banking Campaign, aiming to bring financial services to one million of the world's lowest-income families through 100,000 Village Banks by 2010.
Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights
The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.
Social Innovations
MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP
Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.
Social Innovations
Root Causes vs. Facebook Causes
Few social action platforms are currently leveraging the self-organizing potential of social media to address the root causes that make online social activism necessary in the first place.
Podcast
Stephen Friedman, Gene Sperling - America and the Global Economy
Stephen Friedman and Gene Sperling, former policy advisors to the Clinton and Bush administrations, discuss some of the challenges that the next president will face in the coming years. Central to this panel discussion is the role that globalization will play in formulating policies to ensure that the United States remains competitive with the world. Some of these changes will require deft political skill and the mobilization of popular support behind sensitive issues.