Carmody & Company Inc. http://blog.christophercarmody.com Innovative public affairs, business planning and economic development solutions Tue, 13 May 2008 01:14:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en Gates Foundation names a new director http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/05/13/gates-foundation-names-a-new-director/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/05/13/gates-foundation-names-a-new-director/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 01:13:46 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/05/13/gates-foundation-names-a-new-director/ From the New York Times: “… Jeffrey S. Raikes, 49, will replace Patty Stonesifer, another former Microsoft executive who helped Bill and Melinda Gates start the foundation in an office over a pizza parlor.”

Chris Carmody
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]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/05/13/gates-foundation-names-a-new-director/feed/ ‘Bloomberg Turns Attention to Solar Power’ - NY Times, April 8, 2008 http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/08/bloomberg-turns-attention-to-solar-power-ny-times-april-8-2008/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/08/bloomberg-turns-attention-to-solar-power-ny-times-april-8-2008/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:48:22 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/08/bloomberg-turns-attention-to-solar-power-ny-times-april-8-2008/ Undaunted by legislative rejection of his plan to relieve congestion in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushes for further sustainability measures - covered in today’s NY Times “City Room” blog.

Chris Carmody
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]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/08/bloomberg-turns-attention-to-solar-power-ny-times-april-8-2008/feed/ Fuqua’s Footprints Conference & CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award and Lecture http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/01/fuquas-footprints-conference-case-leadership-in-social-entrepreneurship-award-and-lecture/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/01/fuquas-footprints-conference-case-leadership-in-social-entrepreneurship-award-and-lecture/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:15:27 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/01/fuquas-footprints-conference-case-leadership-in-social-entrepreneurship-award-and-lecture/ April is a big month for social entrepreneurship at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Fuqua’s annual Footprints conference will feature Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm and author of “Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World”. On April 22nd, CASE will hold its annual Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award and Lecture, featuring David Bornstein. Bornstein is a journalist and author of “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas,” as well as several other award-winning books. Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President and CEO, Stonyfield Farm

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/04/01/fuquas-footprints-conference-case-leadership-in-social-entrepreneurship-award-and-lecture/feed/ Ivan Schwarz, Director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, on film production in Ohio http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/30/ivan-schwarz-director-of-the-greater-cleveland-film-commission/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/30/ivan-schwarz-director-of-the-greater-cleveland-film-commission/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:07:52 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/30/ivan-schwarz-director-of-the-greater-cleveland-film-commission/

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

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/30/ivan-schwarz-director-of-the-greater-cleveland-film-commission/feed/ March 17 at Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy: “The New York Times and John McCain” http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/15/march-17-at-duke-sanford-institute-of-public-policy-the-new-york-times-and-john-mccain/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/15/march-17-at-duke-sanford-institute-of-public-policy-the-new-york-times-and-john-mccain/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:30:57 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/15/march-17-at-duke-sanford-institute-of-public-policy-the-new-york-times-and-john-mccain/ George W. Bush endorses Senator John McCainMonday, 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.

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/15/march-17-at-duke-sanford-institute-of-public-policy-the-new-york-times-and-john-mccain/feed/ A fresh presidential approach to ‘national service’: Obama’s support of social entrepreneurship http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/finally-a-fresh-presidential-approach-to-national-service-obamas-take-on-social-entrepreneurship/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/finally-a-fresh-presidential-approach-to-national-service-obamas-take-on-social-entrepreneurship/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:53:11 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/finally-a-fresh-presidential-approach-to-national-service-obamas-take-on-social-entrepreneurship/ 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.

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/finally-a-fresh-presidential-approach-to-national-service-obamas-take-on-social-entrepreneurship/feed/ “Faces of Social Entrepreneurship”: A photo essay by the New York Times http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/faces-of-social-entrepreneurship-a-photo-essay-by-the-new-york-times/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/faces-of-social-entrepreneurship-a-photo-essay-by-the-new-york-times/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:42:55 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/faces-of-social-entrepreneurship-a-photo-essay-by-the-new-york-times/ The Times’ photo essay in this weeks Times Magazine with several articles on social entrepreneurship. Michael Gainer, founder of Buffalo ReUse

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/08/faces-of-social-entrepreneurship-a-photo-essay-by-the-new-york-times/feed/ Back to the Future: More in the New York Times series on old-school new energy http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/07/back-to-the-future-more-in-the-new-york-times-series-on-old-school-new-energy/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/07/back-to-the-future-more-in-the-new-york-times-series-on-old-school-new-energy/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:56:47 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/07/back-to-the-future-more-in-the-new-york-times-series-on-old-school-new-energy/ An Acciona solar thermal power plant, located south of Las Vegas.“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.”

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/07/back-to-the-future-more-in-the-new-york-times-series-on-old-school-new-energy/feed/ GuideStar’s “Five Fundraising Mistakes We Make with Our Boards” http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/06/guidestars-five-fundraising-mistakes-we-make-with-our-boards/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/06/guidestars-five-fundraising-mistakes-we-make-with-our-boards/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:43:21 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/06/guidestars-five-fundraising-mistakes-we-make-with-our-boards/ Thoughts on the question most frequently asked by directors of small non-profits.

www.guidestar.org/news/features/board_fundraising.jsp

]]> http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/06/guidestars-five-fundraising-mistakes-we-make-with-our-boards/feed/ Just who *should* be there to answer ‘the Red phone’ at 3a.m? http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/04/just-who-should-be-there-to-answer-the-phone-at-3am/ http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/04/just-who-should-be-there-to-answer-the-phone-at-3am/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:09:16 +0000 carmody.chris http://blog.christophercarmody.com/2008/03/04/just-who-should-be-there-to-answer-the-phone-at-3am/ For my ivory tower friends. - C

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=985

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