Unlearning what I think I know, starting again through practice. Philanthropy, inclusion, radical openness, running & being human. @NPCthinks
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Who's doing interesting thinking on reimagining #philanthropy right now? I've been reflecting on how deeply most versions of philanthropy rest on individualism, competition, and basically capitalist concepts. Who should I be reading for alternatives? Thx - been out of the loop!
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An open conspiracy to create open infrastructure for knowledge in the sector
ajah.ca/blog/2023/5/02/infra…
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I’ve got to talk to a lot of high net worth individuals wanting to do good with their money recently, I hate to break it to everyone, but not one has wanted to know what to do, all have wanted advice on their idea, normally involving tech + scale immediately. – at Birmingham, England
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Instead: They're about concentration of power in the hands of people, about reproducing systems of oppression, about damage to the information ecosystem, and about damage to the natural ecosystem (through profligate use of energy resources).
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💥We're honored to win the 2023 ESG Investing Award for 'Best Specialist ESG Data Provider'💥
We believe that social impact is best understood by talking to the people experiencing impact
It sounds obvious, but it's still not standard practice; we're on a mission to change that
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On Wednesday 15 March 2023 #LongCovid advocates from around the world will come together for International Long Covid Awareness Day.
There is strength in numbers. Let's make sure we get heard.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
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Tomorrow is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. Hundreds of 1000s in UK are now severely impacted. Economic inactivity due to ill health is at a record high.
I’ve worked on UK health policy for 20 yrs & I’ve had severe long covid for the last yr. Here’s 6 ideas for @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland🧵
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Hard to read the sobering NAO report on digital transformation in UK gov on the same day as GPT-4 is released and not think that generalist civil service is horribly unprepared for what is already here & what is coming in weeks/months/years ahead nao.org.uk/reports/digital-t…
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Our report, Sector Infrastructure Funding, highlights the importance of infrastructure bodies in the voluntary sector and explores the key challenges around funding for these orgs over the last decade.
Have a read ⬇️ threesixtygiving.org/infrast…
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Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea - known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water - changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp." Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. 1/
ALT A graph depicting the Gartner hype cycle. A pair of HAL 9000's glowing red eyes are chasing each other down the slope from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to join another one that is at rest in the Trough of Disillusionment. It, in turn, sits atop a vast cairn of HAL 9000 eyes that are piled in a rough pyramid that extends below the graph to a distance of several times its height. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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On this week's @Trashfuturepod, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that #ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of #autocomplete - not our new robot overlord.
open.spotify.com/episode/4NH… 23/
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Google and Bing are locked in an arms-race to see whose search engine can attain the speediest, most profound #enshittification via #chatbot, replacing links to web-pages with florid paragraphs composed by fully automated, supremely confident liars:
pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/t… 16/
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So proud of my @360Giving team for this great piece of work - shows the power of #OpenData & what we can do. We heard about issues anecdotally and were able to explore the evidence.
We hope this supports the start of more conversations about #InfrastructureFunding #CivilSociety
📢We’ve launched our latest report supported by @phf_uk: Sector Infrastructure Funding!
It explores the role of infrastructure orgs in the sector, supporting & enabling charities, & how funding has changed over the last 12 yrs.
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threesixtygiving.org/infrast…
#InfrastructureFunding
ALT A graph taken from the report showing the change in number of organisations between 2011 - 2022.
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📢We’ve launched our latest report supported by @phf_uk: Sector Infrastructure Funding!
It explores the role of infrastructure orgs in the sector, supporting & enabling charities, & how funding has changed over the last 12 yrs.
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threesixtygiving.org/infrast…
#InfrastructureFunding
ALT A graph taken from the report showing the change in number of organisations between 2011 - 2022.
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Link to Press Release:
Long COVID Community Sets International Awareness Date for March 15th
Feel free to share everywhere!
Your local news stations and papers.
EVERYWHERE!!
#LongcovidAwarenessDay
#LongCovid
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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"[T]he challenges donors often hypothesize that large, unrestricted grants will create...did not materialize. [...] Leaders were almost unequivocally positive about their grant experience." @BridgespanGroup on @BallmerGroup grantees, 5 years later: cep.org/the-impact-of-large-…
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📢 Roll up, roll up!
➡️ Intro to Data for Action. 23rd March, 1pm. It's free and online. With @Tom_c_watson and @MrTomFrench.
See you there 🙂
lu.ma/DFA
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Wow! 4,728 visits to the DEI Data Standard page in 2022 - on top of lots of presentations and meetings with @360Giving about it. It is great that there is so much interest in this important area of work
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