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About time! Letting donors select the research projects they want to fund.

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Outstanding idea?! ... Let the donors select the research projects to For the 30 years I've been in community benefit work, the conventional wisdom of non-profit voluntary health organizations (like American Heart Association, where I worked for 21 years, or March of Dimes, ...

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Key attributes for charity success On the heels of the recession, our sector is poised for changes. Some of it will be self-initiated and embraced; much will be imposed by realities of new times. Most probably these changes will be reluctantly ...

Peak Performance Philanthropy: National Volunteer Week is April 18 - 24 It's that time of year again! A time when nonprofit organizations across the nation will be celebrating the volunteers who help them be great. National Volunteer Week is a time to celebrate volunteers' ...

With annoying Farmville and Mafia Wars, tt had to happen eventually ... Facebook beats Google in total traffice for first time!

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Facebook Beats Google as Most Popular Web Destination Guess it had to happen, and it did, last week. Hitwise figures show Facebook's national domination as the most popular U.S. web destination. For the week ending March 13, Facebook grabbed 7.07 percent of all U.S. ...

It's undeniable: social media are here to stay. Every non-profit, regardless of size, needs to think about their presence in this sphere.

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Social Media Count: No Longer Possible to Ignore It The rise of social media in the last few years has created exponential growth in web usage. Here's a "real time" app that shows just how dynamic and active the social side of the web is. It helps put the ...

Secret millionaire gift to college: great planned giving story See it here - http://tinyurl.com/yhmz8gb

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Great Planned Giving Story: Do you know who you donors are? Grace Groner was exceptionally restrained with her money.Her clothes came from rummage sales. She never owned a car. She lived in a one-bedroom house.She was orphaned while quite young, and came of age during the Depression. ...

Results of experiment earlier this month are in ....

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Oh No! Facebook fan page rating plummets to One Star! (But number of Early in November, while on Facebook, I noticed that my Peak Performance Philanthropy fan page had attained a 5-star rating and a very high post quality score.I proposed an experiment and promised to report back. ...

All about National Day of Listening: How to record an interview with a loved one to preserve for generations to come. Great idea.

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Celebrate the National Day of Listening on November 27, 2009 On Friday (that is, the day after Thanksgiving), each of us is encouraged to spend an hour recording interviews with loved ones, and preserve them for generations to come.It's called the National Day of ...

Happened to me one year ago today: Here's advice to prepare for when you are laid off or involuntarily separated.

Peak Performance Philanthropy: When you are laid off or involuntarily separated One year ago today, I took the shuttle from a White Plains, NY hotel to the headquarters office of the health charity where I worked -- day one of a four-day road trip, away from my Emeryville, California office. ...

Great stewardship from DonorChoose - my personal experience with charity that makes it easy to help students in need

Peak Performance Philanthropy: Great Stewardship from DonorsChoose I just got an "impact report" today from a school teacher in Oakland.Back in April, I went to DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need.1. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests. ...

5 Star rating of Post Quality. What's it all mean? Let's play a game with FB's metrics!

Peak Performance Philanthropy: 5 Star rating of Post Quality on Facebook ... Cool! I've got the greatest fans on Facebook! Checked in today to the Peak Performance Philanthropy fan page and saw this 5 Star rating of my post quality.When one's fans choose to interact with posted material ...