Archive for August, 2007

Non-profit index

There is a great ‘round-up’ posting on the Philanthropy 2173 blog talking about new media tools. On it I read about Altruistiq, a stock exchange for non-profits. This seems to me like a great bridge between the third and commercial sector. One step on from the FTSE4Good index which measures performance in companies which meet […]

A great use of podcasts.

I have come across– somewhat belatedly I am sure! – a great use of the new media tools available for all to use. The Variety Club has launched a Mr Men and Little Miss Celebrity Podcasts. They have got some of the UK’s best-loved celebrities from screen and radio to record their favourite Mr. Men […]

A Sixth!

Since being limited to 5 things that I believe the third sector should be focusing on it has been playing on my mind that I wasn’t able to make it six. So now I am going to! The sixth target is not something that will necessarily generate direct benefit for the charity itself, but it […]

Third Sector Excellence Awards 2007

I was excited to be asked to be on the judging panel of the Third Sector Excellence Awards, and last week spent much of Friday going through the many fantastic entries with my fellow judges. I wasn’t entirely sure about the mechanism for the scoring process, which I think can be (greatly!) improved, but was […]