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Archive for March 2008

Ivan Schwarz, Director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, on film production in Ohio

March 30, 2008 by carmody.chris.

Schwarz talks about his transition from Hollywood to Cleveland, Cleveland’s effort to attract the NEHST Studio Headquarters, and what state government has to do to level the playing field in attracting film production to Ohio.

Chris Carmody
www.carmodyandcompany.com

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March 17 at Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy: “The New York Times and John McCain”

March 15, 2008 by carmody.chris.

Monday, March 17, Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy will host New York Times reporter Stephen Labaton. Labaton will discuss the New York Times’ recent (and highly controversial) coverage of John McCain. While I try to avoid discussions of partisan politics in this blog, I think this controversy will end of being one of the most important discussions on journalism this year: after all, the New York Times is the ‘paper of record,’ setting journalistic standards not only for the U.S. but for much of the world.

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A fresh presidential approach to ‘national service’: Obama’s support of social entrepreneurship

March 8, 2008 by carmody.chris.

Check out “Obama Promises Government Help for Nonprofit Groups” — Suzanne Perry’s piece in The Chronicle of Philanthropy. For years, I’ve had very mixed feelings about Federal public service programs. While the value of John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps speaks for itself, most other programs proposed by federal politicians somehow remind me of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) era - in other words, ‘make work’ programs. Indeed, many of these programs seem to me to be simply politically opportunistic - something that sounds good and that politicians on both the left and the right feel obligated to propose during election cycles - but without real substance. Senator Barrack Obama is the first presidential candidate in my memory to actually recognize social entrepreneurship as an approach for civil participation and social change.

Obama has proposed the creation of a ‘Social Investment Fund Network’ and a ‘Social Entrepreneurship Agency for Non-Profits.’ The Social Investment Fund Network would be organized similarly to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, using “federal seed money to leverage private sector funding to improve local innovation, test the impact of new ideas and expand successful programs to scale” (for the whole policy paper, see http://obama.3cdn.net/3b3158f85f69a39217_hydpmvzbb.pdf). It would also bring many of the research tools that The Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and The Center for Effective Philanthropy bring to existing philanthropic efforts.

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“Faces of Social Entrepreneurship”: A photo essay by the New York Times

March 8, 2008 by carmody.chris.

The Times’ photo essay in this weeks Times Magazine with several articles on social entrepreneurship.

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Back to the Future: More in the New York Times series on old-school new energy

March 7, 2008 by carmody.chris.

“On sunny afternoons, those 10 plants would produce as much electricity as three nuclear reactors, but they can be built in as little as two years, compared with a decade or longer for a nuclear plant.”