Archive for the ‘nonprofit’ Category

Eradicating Malaria With the Tony Blair Faith Foundation

Hello web-friends, I have been appointed to my dream job and I need your help to make it rock. I have been selected to join the Faiths Act Fellows, a cadre of 30 young interfaith leaders in the US, UK, and Canada who will spend August 2009-June 2010 working to promote malaria eradication. This is [...]

Of Advertising and Return

A little while ago, I caught a tweet from @davewiner pointing out that super web-guy and blog-champ @jasoncalacanis was offering Twitter $10000/month to be on the “Suggested Users” list. I retweeted it and offered Mr. Calacanis $5000/month to relentlessly promote him and his work. I wasn’t entirely serious, and I’m convinced that my response was [...]

Quick Responses and Warm Bodies

I’m helping to organize some malaria awareness events on campus this quarter and the next, and I had the bright idea to find a real anti-malarial anti-mosquito bednet. Not having any idea where I might find such a thing, I contacted my point-person at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, who promptly beeped someone at Malaria [...]

An Evening With Michael Seltzer

So I hit up the Denver Young Nonprofit Professionals Network tonight for a little speech and Q&A with Michael Seltzer. He’s a nonprofit consultant, awesome dude, and the author of Securing Your Organization’s Future. You can find a better bio of Seltzer here. We had some light refreshments and then gathered in the studio at [...]