tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post4814253957090962565..comments2024-03-28T03:11:22.839-07:00Comments on PHILANTHROPY 2173: Three Technologies for ChangeLucy Bernholzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-43667003577331164612009-04-23T07:58:00.000-07:002009-04-23T07:58:00.000-07:00We were not the only one's to comment on Chapman's...We were not the only one's to comment on Chapman's idea of "Upbeat" - Here's a next day follow up, plling from Leah Garchik's column in the SF Chronicle...<br /><br />First - my comment on the blog: "Tracy Chapman played "Talkin bout a revolution" and then, in what she called "an upbeat environmental song," she covered Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi." As Chapman herself noted, there is an opportunity for the writing of upbeat environmental songs. As my seatmate noted, only Chapman would label Mitchell's anthem to 'paving paradise' "upbeat.""<br /><br />Garchik points out "Tracy Chapman, who performed at the Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony Monday, said it had been hard to comply with a request that she sing an upbeat song about the environment. She did some research, she said, and "I have to say there's an opportunity out there. Because there aren't that many." Her choice: Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi," the chorus of which says, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Not all that upbeat, but at least it's nuclear sludge free."Lucy Bernholzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-53760167992509823782009-04-23T07:54:00.000-07:002009-04-23T07:54:00.000-07:00Chet
Thanks for this info - this is exactly right...Chet <br />Thanks for this info - this is exactly right about "getting it" - Goldman and Global GreenGrants are great examples of two different platforms coming together to extend each other's reach. My reply to Brad's comment on the Earth Day post here at philanthropy2173 shows yet another example - the GPF/Foundation Center relationship. These "extender" partnerships are very important - and will be subject of another blog post....<br /><br />Great to know about the DC event - glad Goldman is going bi-coastal along with Global...!<br /><br />LucyLucy Bernholzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-2427399686936195112009-04-22T20:58:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:58:00.000-07:00The Goldman Fund 'gets it' alright. And the Globa...The Goldman Fund 'gets it' alright. And the Global Greengrants Fund intends to help Goldman leverage the deep insight and local knowledge of their network of 133 Goldman Prize Winners from the last 20 years into a powerful force for distributing more small grants to help incubate the future winners of the Goldman Prize. The Goldman Prize awards ceremony was repeated tonight - April 22nd - at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC where I was welcomed at the door by Ethel Kennedy and Steve Mills, the International Director of the Sierra Club - to an event that impressed the East Coast supporters of the global grassroots environmental movement even as the Global Philanthropy Forum was going on at the nearby Mayflower Hotel in an unintentional schedule conflict that featured Paul Brest of the Hewlett Foundation and Aquasi Aidoo of Trust Africa.Chet Tchozewski, President, Global Greengrants Fundhttp://www.greengrants.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-54075108182087256292009-04-21T09:20:00.000-07:002009-04-21T09:20:00.000-07:00Thanks for letting me know! That is fabulous - loo...Thanks for letting me know! That is fabulous - looks like Goldman "gets it" when it comes to leverage:<br /><br />- media outreach (ceremony)<br />- education (kids in audience)<br />- partnerships with individual donors (GlobalGreenGrants)<br />- partnerships with networks of donors (JFN)<br />- cool tools - google earth, video, etc - to give the ideas and info real "afterlife"<br /><br />LucyLucy Bernholzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09253941214286179394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3614581.post-82430647741667868442009-04-21T09:03:00.000-07:002009-04-21T09:03:00.000-07:00The Goldman Fund, through the Jewish Funders Netwo...The Goldman Fund, through the Jewish Funders Network, is also offering $750,000 in matching funds to funders making first major gifts to Israeli environmental organizations. (www.jfunders.org/environment). More great ways the foundation is leveraging its philanthropy to increase support for this critical sector.Jonathanhttp://www.jfunders.org/environmentnoreply@blogger.com