http://www.metafilter.com/32453/Gift-Hub/ Comments on MetaFilter post Gift Hub Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:02:33 -0800 Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:02:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/32453/Gift-Hub <a href="http://www.gifthub.org/">Gift hub - Connecting Funders, Active Citizens, and Advisors.</a> <a href="http://giving.typepad.com/about.html" title="My personal interest is in bringing together the two sides of my life - the humanistic and the financial - and helping others to do the same. I have been active in the charitable world as a past President of the Dallas Chapter of National Committee on Planned Giving, as former head of New York Life Charitable Giving Network, and as a volunteer for Dallas Social Venture Partners. I have spoken on donor centered philanthropy at the annual convention of the National Committee on Planned Giving (2002), and on possible futures of philanthropy on a panel at The Council on Foundation's annual convention (2003). Chaired a conference on Emerging Trends in Philanthropy for The Institute for International Research (2001). ">Phil Cubeta</a>, who is known to many as the weblog world's <a href="http://www.wealthbondage.com/" title="A Satire of Wealth and Power in the Tradition of Roman Comedy - Stupid, Obscene and Cruel">Happy Tutor</a> (et al.), wants to stop just <a href="http://www.wealthbondage.com/2004/03/09.html" title="Many of the ills of small foundations can be traced to the donor's and advisor's cluelessness about civics. By opening up the closed networks of elite philanthropy, a side benefit would be raising the general level of practice among newer givers. Snobbery and comfortable old boy/girl networks militate against that result, but ideals don't.">talking about philanthropy</a> and actually do something. Now this a Corporate Guy that I actually respect. He's recently decided to 'go from satire to sermon, from noting problems to working for solutions,' and <a href="http://www.gifthub.org/" title="How do we bring those who care about an open society together to protect what is ours, our political freedom, our human dignity, our environment and here and there vestiges of spirituality and (non-commercial) culture? I know many who are also feverish thinking about these things. Alone, we all count our cards and see we hold a losing hand. I count mine over and over, and so might you. But as a matter of public goods and collective action, together we hold the most votes, the most dollars, the most talent and the open-hearted concern with the welfare of others.">brought together</a> some other <a href="http://www.gifthub.org/phils_rolodex/index.html" title="Heavy hitters of many stripes.">smart and influential people</a> to talk about <a href="http://www.wealthbondage.com/2004/03/09.html" title="Because so many of us feel that we have been played for stupid, that we have been lied to, had our patriotism abused, and watched our rights curtailed by those who were sworn to protect them. We do not want lines drawn between red and blue states, or wedge issues driven among us. We want to come together around the better angels of America's great democratic traditions and to be once again a beacon to the world, not only for free flows of capital, and the off-shoring of jobs, burgeoning profit margins, and bullying military might, not only for brands and Hollywood hooha, but for political liberty. We want a voice; we want a life lived with ideals, in brotherhood with others, even if we disagree with them. We are what NGOwatch cynically dismisses as 'the unelected few' who are messing up plutocracy, by asking that we the people be heard.">philanthropy, activism, volunteerism, charity, social movements, civil society, and emerging democracy</a>, and is one of the people organizing an <a href="http://www.wealthbondage.com/2004/03/30.html">Open Space</a> <a href="http://www.gifthub.org/attending_conference/index.html">for Giving Conference </a>in <a href="http://www.gifthub.org/2004/04/conference_plac.html">Chicago</a>. <a href="http://www.gifthub.org/faq/index.html" title="Q: What is your purpose? A: To create an open space where advisors, givers, and activists for grassroots organizations can meet to discuss ways and means, as well as ends in view. ">Can a webby philanthropic bridge</a> be built between the chaotic, emergent ferment in the wired world and the <a href="http://www.tpi.org/promoting/education/tuesdaysattpi/tuesdays_at_tpi.htm" title="How does philanthropy enable powerful visions to become practical strategies for leadership? How can philanthropy become a true moral leader in the affairs of the world in which we live? Why has philanthropy failed, too often, to take on needed leadership to move an issue forward? What are the real world implications of these questions for donors and trustees as well as foundation CEOs and professional staff? ">world of corporate wealth</a>? I don't know, but I wish him luck. post:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32453 Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:01:16 -0800 stavrosthewonderchicken charities charity philanthropy giving activism volunteerism society democracy http://www.metafilter.com/32453/Gift-Hub#654640 <small>With a tip o' the hat to y2karl, of course.</small> comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32453-654640 Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:02:33 -0800 stavrosthewonderchicken http://www.metafilter.com/32453/Gift-Hub#654697 I, too, wish him luck. Please pardon my pessimism but I just don't see Halliburton's former CEO donating the first dime to any <b>good</b> cause. The same goes for Ken Lay or Bernie Ebbers and the long list of Pioneers and Rangers. Perhaps Scaife and Abramson consider their causes to be good and worthy but we would disagree. comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.32453-654697 Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:38:40 -0800 nofundy