Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Jan 7, 2008	The Long View…
Emily sent me an article from the New York Times this morning, about the ways non-profits are funded and evaluated (worth a read). This quote really hit it on the nose, for me: “The reason the nonprofit sector exists at all is because it can fund and invest in social issues that the...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Jan 7, 2008	The Long View…
Emily sent me an article from the New York Times this morning, about the ways non-profits are funded and evaluated (worth a read). This quote really hit it on the nose, for me: “The reason the nonprofit sector exists at all is because it can fund and invest in social issues that the...... [view]

Posted By:  RandyTyler Posted On:  Jul 13, 2007	About Online Volunteering: Podcast and Web Resource
"About Online Volunteering: Information Non-Profit Organizations Can Use" is an online resource (which also has an accompanying podcast listed in iTunes under the same name) by Macdonald Youth Services' (MYS) pioneering online volunteer program developer, Randy Tyler. Learn...... [view]

Posted By:  Katea Posted On:  Jun 28, 2007	Calling All Philanthropists/TIG Members
To all TIG Members, We are all philanthropists, the mere fact that we want to share our knowledge, our talent, our time, and our money to help others and in the process improving ourselves, we deserve this name. Anyway, ss I was doing my daily task of reading toolkits and resources for the...... [view]

Posted By:  adamclare Posted On:  May 30, 2007	Humans hard-wired to be generous
This is genuinely good news! According to a new study we want to help others ! The two say altruism is something that makes people feel good, lighting up a primitive part of the human brain that usually responds to food or sex. Grafman and Moll have been scanning the brains of volunteers...... [view]