Conference differences

I just left the COF Fall Conference for community foundations. This year's big innovation - a daily printed newsletter available to participants. Compare this to the live blogging capacity that is now a core part of every other conference, including the Clinton Global Initiative (underway now) which is being webcasted, podcasted, and blogged.

SNEAK PREVIEWS

I have several new articles coming to press in September:

Foundation News and Commentary will publish the first issue of Future Matters, "Staying Ahead of the Technology Curve," in the September/October 2006 issue (Just in time for the Council on Foundations Community Foundations Conference). This piece was co-authored with Gabriel Kasper and Katherine Fulton,

Issue # 2 of Future Matters "Community Leadership: What's race got to do with it?" and Issue #3, "Philanthropy Marketplaces: Inventing the future of community philanthropy" will be released at the Conference. They also will be posted for free download at the Future of Community Philanthropy website and on Blueprint's publications page. These are also joint publications with Kasper and Fulton.

You can pre-order The World We Want, edited by Peter Karoff and Jane Maddox. It includes an interview with me paired with one from Dave Bergholz called, "Open Sesame: Networks of Cooperation and Open Source Solutions." The book should be in stores near you early in 2007.

More than enough info on cause marketing

My previous cranky post about Travelocity, Go Zero, and Travel for Good reminded me that SavyyGiver has info on every possible such scheme - or as the site states, "all the info you need on who is selling what to help whom." Or something like that.

Measure your own ecological footprint

Regarding my previous post, here's the link to measure your own ecological footprint. In the interest of full disclosure, mine was a "20." The average in my area is "24." If everyone lived like me, we would need 4.4 planets to sustain us.

I gotta go order solar panels, find a vegan cookbook, cancel all plane trips, and unplug the computer. At least I have (and use) a bus pass.