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Welcome to Skoll eNews, the Skoll Foundation's bimonthly update on Skoll activities and news in the world of social entrepreneurship!
Riders for Health Closes the Health Care Gap in Africa
It wasn't mere compassion that drove Barry and Andrea Coleman to start Riders for Health, a nonprofit that delivers health care to remote areas in Africa. It was anger.
After seeing people die from diseases that could have been prevented with vaccines and women in childbirth being carried to the hospital in wheelbarrows, the Colemans realized a lot of medical problems could be solved by making it easier for health workers to reach those in need of care. "There were all these resources being poured into Africa by organizations, but they weren't getting out to the rural communities. It made us angry that people were dying because a simple transportation solution was not available to them," said Andrea.
Other aid groups had supplied vehicles, but they were abandoned as soon as they broke down. The Colemans knew that proper maintenance of vehicles was the key to solving the problem. They re-mortgaged their home in the U.K. to set up Riders in 1996. They began their work in Africa by training health workers to ride and drive motorcycles and other vehicles safely and to do basic maintenance so that their vehicles never broke down. The organization also trains technicians who do monthly outreach service on the vehicles used by health workers. These innovations have increased the average vehicle's life span from less than 12 months to more than seven years.
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Skoll Awardees Shine at Clinton Conference
 The 15 recipients of Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship who were invited to the recent Clinton Global Initiative in New York City garnered a great deal of attention.
Four Skoll Award recipients had financial commitments announced during the plenary sessions : CAMFED, Committee for Democracy in IT (CDI), Riders for Health and Room to Read. Six participated in panel discussions (click the links to watch videos of the sessions): Sakena Yacoobi of Afghan Institute of Learning, Ann Cotton of CAMFED, Mindy Lubber of Ceres, Albina Ruiz of Ciudad Saludable, Vicky Colbert of Escuela Nueva Foundation and John Wood of Room to Read.
During the conference, the Skoll Foundation pledged a five-year $3.5 million program-related investment (PRI) and a linked grant of $400,000 over 36 months to Riders that will help the organization purchase a fleet of vehicles. Riders will lease the vehicles to the Gambian Department of State for Health, enabling health care services to reach the entire population of The Gambia on a reliable and cost-effective basis. (See "In the Spotlight" article in this issue.)
An unexpected high point of the conference occurred when Vicky was chosen as a "Clinton Global Citizen." She and the other three inaugural "Citizens" were commended for outstanding achievements that have inspired change and made a positive impact on the world.
Other Skoll Award recipients who attended the conference were Benetech, Fundacion Paraguaya, Institute for OneWorld Health, Renascer Child Health Association, Search for Common Ground, TransFair USA and VillageReach.
More than 1,000 individuals, including heads of state, corporate CEOs and leaders of nongovernmental organizations and foundations, attended the Clinton Global Initiative. It was the third annual conference convened by former President Bill Clinton to help devise and help fund solutions to world problems.
President Carter Talks About Worms and the World
 Global X, the fearless commandant of Social Edge, caught up with another former President recently, Jimmy Carter, who shared his experiences in a small village in Ghana and why he decided to eradicate Guinea worm from the planet. He's done very well, eliminating 99.7 percent of the problem.
Asked where the world will be in 10 years, President Carter expressed the hope that the U.S. will again become the champion of peace, human rights and justice. He thinks each of us can exemplify peace, justice, truth and humanity: "The most powerful people in a democracy are individuals." Watch the Jimmy Carter interview on Social Edge.
Sundance Launches Documentary Partnership with Skoll
 In September the Skoll Foundation and the Sundance Institute announced a three-year $3 million partnership that will help leading social entrepreneurs and outstanding documentary filmmakers collaborate and create new films that advance knowledge about social entrepreneurship. Called "Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary,"this partnership builds on earlier work between Skoll and Sundance exploring the intersection of storytelling and social entrepreneurship.
The partnership includes year-round connections between social entrepreneurs and filmmakers at major events such as the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England. It provides $1.2 million in project grants to enable the seeding, creation and audience development of new films. The partnership also supports an online resource for social entrepreneurs and filmmakers that will facilitate the global exchange of information and sharing of expertise and will offer case studies to expand the learning that comes from these collaborations.
Process Changes for Skoll Awards
 The Skoll Foundation now accepts applications and grants the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship on a year-round basis. You can read the Award Guidelines and fill out an application on our Web site.
Please note that December 17, 2007, is the deadline for applying for a Skoll Award if you wish to receive funding by the summer of 2008. Applications submitted after that date will continue to be reviewed and funded throughout the year, with Award recipients celebrated at the subsequent Skoll World Forum.
Benetech Wins Giant Federal Competition
 What if the federal government fulfilled your wildest dream? That's what happened to Jim Fruchterman, founder of Benetech, in October when he received word that the U.S. Department of Education had awarded his Bookshare.org project $32 million over five years.
The funding will allow the nonprofit organization, which is a Skoll awardee, to scan and add more than 500 new books per week to its site, which already makes more than 34,000 volumes available. The new award will pay Benetech to provide Bookshare.org services free of charge to all blind and dyslexic U.S. students from kindergarden through graduate school. Jim estimates users of the service will increase from around 6,000 to over 100,000 as a result of the grant and that the site will offer more than 100,000 new volumes over the next five years.
Jim, who received a MacArthur Fellowship last year, describes Bookshare.org as "Amazon.com meets Napster meets Talking Book for the Blind – but legal." Once books are uploaded to the site, usually by volunteers, they can be downloaded as digital files that can be listened to with a voice synthesizer, printed out as enlarged print or Braille, or read on an electronic Braille display.
Benetech's 25 employees celebrated the news of the grant by going to Jim's house for smoked lobsters (based on a rash promise he made when Benetech entered the federal competition).
Films Help Tell Stories
 At the Skoll Foundation we've found that people understand social entrepreneurship much faster when we show films of social entrepreneurs in action. Three years ago we funded a PBS documentary series called The New Heroes that tells 12 stories of social entrepreneurs over a period of four hours. Building on our belief in the power of storytelling, we are creating a portfolio of films about our Skoll awardees.
Social entrepreneurs featured in our short film series, which we call Uncommon Heroes, are Ann Cotton of CAMFED, Mindy Lubber of Ceres, Taddy Blecher of CIDA City Campus, Martin Burt of Fundacion Paraguaya, Amitabha Sadangi of IDE India, Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health and Blaise Judja-Sato of VillageReach.
You can view the Uncommon Heroes films on our Web site or request a free DVD by sending an email to Skoll Creative Manager Phil Collis at pcollis@skollfoundation.org.
Phil recently created "TV channels" on our Web site that allow you to link instantly to all video content related to recipients of Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship (SASE). To view them, just view the Current SASE awardee in which you're interested and click on the "Click to Watch Videos" bar in the top portion of the listing. The bar will immediately expand into a video box; just click the arrow to begin viewing.
For example, Barefoot College's listing links to an interview on RocketBoom, one of the Internet's most popular video blogs, about how women in remote areas of India are learning to electrify villages with solar power.
Phil has aggregated these and other films about Skoll awardees and Skoll events, including the Skoll World Forum, on Skoll's YouTube page, which is logging more than 50,000 hits per month. He has just learned that the Skoll Web site has been accepted for the YouTube Nonprofit program, which means we will able to take our YouTube channel to the next level, using custom graphics, branding and banners. The Skoll site also recently qualified for a Google Adwords grant.
NOW Segment Nominated for Emmy
 We've just learned that the kick-off story for the Enterprising Ideas series on NOW with David Brancaccio has been nominated for a Business Emmy award. Produced by Dan Logan, the piece about CFW Shops is one of six stories created so far with a grant from the PBS Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Fund, created by a grant from the Skoll Foundation. CFW Shops is using a franchise model similar to those used in burger and doughnut shops to deliver accessible and affordable health care in Kenya.
Enterprising Ideas has its own Web site with streaming videos of all six stories, a blog, resources on how to get involved and lesson plans for educators.
Social Edge Launches Human Rights Defenders Series
 A new Human Rights Defenders video series on Social Edge introduces some of the people who are battling for human rights on the front lines. Running through mid-December, the series began with Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, describing her faith in the law and legal systems to affect change and address grievances. It also features, Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founder of Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, who recalls his imprisonment in Cairo, tells what happened on September 11 and shares his vision for the Middle East.
Others in the series are Gerard Jean-Juste of the Haitian Refugee Center, Jessica Montell of B'Tselem, Zainah Anwar of Sisters in Islam (SIS), Mitri Raheb of International Center of Bethlehem, Mossad Mohamed Ali of Amel Centre in South Darfur, Apollinaire Malumalu of DRC's Independent Electoral Commission and Bernice Celeyta of La Asociación para la Investigación y Acción Social. Visit Social Edge to watch a new interview each week.
New Bloggers Join Social Edge
 Alyson Zureick and Sagar Gubbi have joined Social Edge's team of social entrepreneur bloggers.
While spending a year in Sierra Leone as a Princeton in Africa Fellow, Allison is blogging on numerous grassroots initiatives for social change. She is working with the International Rescue Committee, a leading international humanitarian nongovernmental organization that assists with post-conflict development projects across the country.
Follow along as Alyson gets acclimatized to life in Africa and investigates topics such as the political change with the country's new incoming President Ernest Koroma, emerging businesses and social initiatives, and economic development through tourism. You can read Alyson's blog, Alyson in Africa, on Social Edge.
Sagar describes himself as "a techie by profession, an entrepreneur by spirit, a writer by interest, a traveler by ambition, but a fun-loving guy at heart." Based in Bangalore, he writes about sustainable enterprise initiatives that have the power to bring economic development to the base of the pyramid. His topics range from the Indian stock market to mobile ATMs to health care in rural areas. Check out Sagar Gubbi's blog on Social Edge.
Transitions at the Skoll Foundation
There are comings and goings at the Skoll Foundation. After nearly four years with the foundation, Senior Program Officer Ruth Norris has departed to pursue other opportunities. We are very grateful to her for the key role she played in creating and shaping the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Her experience in the developing world, her professional networks and her expertise in many fields – including conservation, international development, Latin America and organizational development – have proven invaluable to us. We wish Ruth well.
We are pleased to announce that Jill Finlayson has been appointed as Web Marketing Manager for Social Edge and Tina Tan-Zane has been named Marketing Assistant.
In her role as Web Marketing Manager for Social Edge, Jill is responsible for increasing the online community's visibility on the Internet to provide better access to tools that help social entrepreneurs launch and scale social benefit ventures. Before joining the Social Edge team, Jill worked for a number of Internet startups, including eBay, where she ran the Toys category for nearly five years. Jill was a member of the first governance committee for the eBay Foundation. She has developed online and offline educational materials for small business owners and is the coauthor of two books for McGraw Hill: Fundraising on eBay and How to Make Money Online with eBay, Yahoo! and Google.
As Marketing Assistant, Tina assists the Marketing team with the Skoll Foundation's "Connect" and "Celebrate" objectives. She came to the foundation from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, Calif., where she worked for six years, first as an assistant in the Human Resources Department, then as Administrative Assistant in the Office of the President and later as Executive Assistant with the Population Program. She previously was employed as a recruiter for personnel agencies.
The Skoll Foundation Is Hiring!
We're staffing up to meet our needs. Please check out our Job Openings. We're currently seeking a Communications Director and an Organizational Sustainability Officer.
Riders for Health Closes the Health Care Gap in Africa
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 Positive Results
It was a simple solution, but it worked. Health care workers using 1,200 vehicles now reach more than 10 million people in Zimbabwe, The Gambia and Nigeria. Vaccination rates have risen and death rates have dropped. Instead of having to visit villages on foot and spend long periods away from their families, the health workers each serve about five times as many individuals – as many as 20,000 per year – and travel home in the evenings to be with their families. They stay on the job longer and have become more adept at handling different health problems.
Barry, a silver-haired former journalist for The Guardian in England, and Andrea, a public relations specialist with bright red glasses and a "can do" attitude, were the perfect pair for the job. Both have a passion for motorcycles – Barry wrote about them and Andrea used to race them – and they turned to their many friends in the racing world for help in getting Riders up and running. They soon developed a "Uhuru" motorcycle with a sidecar that converts into a gurney on wheels. When the vehicle is stationary, it has a third wheel that can run a water pump to irrigate crops and generate income. It is the mainstay of a program that also includes many trucks and four-wheel drive vehicles.
The Colemans hire only African personnel to manage the program. They have made the program financially self-sustaining by contracting with ministries of health, United Nations agencies and international aid organizations to provide vehicles that pay for themselves. Their fees, charged on a per-kilometer basis, include the costs of fuel, driver training, protective gear, replacement parts, a mechanic's labor costs and a vehicle replacement charge. Riders also runs the International Academy of Vehicle Maintenance, an offshoot that has trained more than 1,000 delegates around the world to manage and maintain vehicles.
Andrea continually targets motorcycle circles and events for funding. For example, a "Riders for Health Day" held last summer at Laguna Seca raceway in California included a tour of the paddock, lunch with motorcycle superstar Randy Mamola and an 80-mile motorcycle tour of mountain roads. It raised more than $35,000.
Expanding Their Reach
A three-year Skoll Award for $765,000 awarded in 2006 is helping Riders expand its existing programs in Zimbabwe and The Gambia to reach an additional 10 million people, as well as move into five more countries within the next 10 years. By 2008, Riders plans to manage vehicles in one new country and reach 5 million more people.
At the recent Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City, the Skoll Foundation pledged a five-year $3.5 million program-related investment (PRI) and a linked grant of $400,000 over 36 months to Riders that will help the organization set up a leasing program in The Gambia. The PRI may take the form of a loan, a loan guaranty or a combination of the two. One condition of the PRI is a funding agreement between one or more bilateral donors and the Gambian Department of State for Health that would cover the capital costs and interest for the whole fleet during the five-year leasing period.
Leasing vehicles to contracting agencies rather than maintaining vehicles owned by others will give Riders the control it needs to make sure the vehicles are properly maintained. Leasing also allows vehicles to be shared among smaller nongovernmental organizations that cannot afford to run a vehicle more than one of two days a week.
Challenges Ahead
Documenting impacts directly attributable to Riders for Health is difficult, as is often the case with health care initiatives that have multiple players in a region. As proof of their success, Barry and Andrea cite a 2001 study that examined two adjoining provinces in Zimbabwe. In one district, all 16 health workers were mobile, using motorcycles managed by Riders for Health. In the other district, only three out of 15 health workers were mobile; the other 12 walked. The study showed a 44 percent decrease in deaths due to malaria in the more mobile district and a 20 percent increase in deaths during the same period in the less mobile district. A second study in 2006 by an independent consultant of the overall impact of Riders' work in Africa found a 261 percent increase in treatment of infant diarrhea and a 55 percent increase in treatment of malaria.
Barry and Andrea face an uphill battle in proving the success of their venture and changing longstanding attitudes among international aid organizations that don't usually worry about vehicle maintenance because their budgets allow for annual replacement of vehicles. "We've got to break the donor culture of giving vehicles without any maintenance backup," Barry said.
He added, "There is all this hand-wringing about HIV and other diseases that are ravaging Africa. It's a bit frustrating when people need to have access to health care but it doesn't reach them because the vehicles break."
 Riders for Health is located at 3 New Street, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 4BT, United Kingdom.
Telephone: +44 (0)1327 300 047. Email: rfh@riders.org
Web site: www.riders.org
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AWARDEE NEWS
Glamour magazine has named Victoria Hale, founder and Board Chair of Institute for OneWorld Health, as one of its "Women of the Year." She and other women leaders who are making an impact on key global issues received the award at a gala reception in New York City on Monday. Victoria started Institute for OneWorld Health in 2000 to offer drugs at affordable prices in developing countries. It is the first nonprofit drug company in the U.S.
Riders for Health and Barefoot College recently worked together to electrify two rural villages in The Gambia with solar energy. Barefoot College trains poor and often illiterate villagers in skills that will help their communities. Riders had experience working in The Gambia that helped Barefoot College identify two suitable students to be trained. The two Gambian women selected, Aji Camara and Mariam Bardj, traveled to India to study at Barefoot College, then Riders helped transport solar equipment to their villages. As a result, 74 houses in The Gambia now have electricity and Ali and Mariam have new skills that they can teach to others in their community.
African delegates at a medical conference have voted to phase out health care equipment and products containing mercury, reports Health Care Without Harm, one of the sponsors of the convening. The 85 delegates included doctors, nurses, environmental specialists, health technologists, procurement officers and nursing union representatives from Eastern and Western Africa. Their "Johannesburg Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care" calls on African governments to develop policies that eliminate mercury from hospitals and other health institutions. Health Care Without Harm has just released a new report called "The Global Movement for Mercury-Free Health Care."
Verité has been selected by the global cocoa industry to develop a practical and independent approach to verify labor conditions in cocoa production in West Africa. When completed, the Verité Road Map will offer a credible way of measuring labor conditions and will ensure that any abusive labor practices are identified and addressed in the world's largest cocoa exporting countries: the Ivory Coast and Ghana.
CAMFED has been chosen for the second year in a row as the sole beneficiary of the Financial Times' Seasonal Appeal. The fundraising campaign, which will run in both the U.S. and U.K. editions of the publication, will start in late November and is looking to build on the $1.2 million raised from FT readers last year to support girls' education in Africa.
Articles that call on conscientious consumers to buy rugs with the RugMark label are running this month in two popular mainstream publications: Oprah magazine and Good Housekeeping. RugMark-certified rugs are made without child labor.
The Global Development Network has announced that Ciudad Saludable is one of five finalists for the 2007 Global Development Award in the "Most Innovative Development Project" category. Ciudad's solid waste management program makes cities cleaner and promotes good health among community members in rural cities in Peru.
In his new book, Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life, Marc Freedman outlines options for a new state of life between the end of midlife careers and the beginning of true old age. He calls this "encore career" an opportunity to do work that combines continued income with new meaning and greater impact. As the founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, Marc manages a think tank and program incubator that helps society achieve the greatest return from experienced citizens.
Search for Common Ground played a key role in supporting free democratic elections recently in Sierra Leone by leading the creation of a national network of community radio stations, training and deploying nearly 600 election observers to every polling station in the country, implementing a rapid reporting mechanism and conducting a parallel vote count. The organization also arranged and broadcast debates between Parliamentary candidates, offered a 10-part TV drama series focused on getting women out to vote and on voter education, and produced public service announcements.
William Foote, president and founder of Root Capital, has won an Ashoka Global Fellowship. The international fellowship is given to emerging social entrepreneurs and includes pro-bono strategic and professional services. Since the social investment fund was launched in 2000, Root Capital has made $70 million in loans to 128,000 rural producer families in 26 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, with a 99.5 percent repayment rate. The organization is entering a new realm by partnering with a Chilean wine cooperative called Viñas Chequen in hopes of transforming grape producers into specialty wine exporters.
Mindy Lubber of Ceres was interviewed for a feature-length motion picture that was initiated and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to inform the public of its 30 years of climate research. Produced by Ceilings Unlimited, Inc., the film is planned for release during the 2008 election season. NOAA is a federal agency focused on the condition of the oceans and the atmosphere. Ceres is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
November 8-10 The Philanthropy Roundtable annual meeting, Dana Point, Calif.
November 13 X-Interview with Jessica Montell, executive director of BTselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, on Social Edge
November 13 Peace Corps Entrepreneur Steve Wright from Sales Force.com Foundation on Social Edge
November 20 X-Interview with Zainah Anwar, Executive Director of Sisters in Islam (SIS), on Social Edge
November 20 Six Practices of High Impact Ventures Discussion Series begins on Social Edge
November 20 Peace Corps Entrepreneur Meg Garlinghouse from Yahoo for Good on Social Edge
November 27 X-Interview with Mitri Raheb, founder of the International Center of Bethlehem, on Social Edge
November 27 Six Practices of High Impact Ventures Discussion Series, Part 2, on Social Edge
November 27 Peace Corps Entrepreneur Mary Balmaceda from Unitus on Social Edge
November 28-30 - Funders' Committee for Civic Participation annual meeting, Washington, D.C.
November 29 - Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families, "Leveraging Public and Private Resources for More Effective Early Care and Education," Orlando, Florida
December 4 X-Interview with Mossad Mohamed Ali, Coordinator of the Amel Centre for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture in South Darfur, on Social Edge
December 4 Six Practices of High Impact Ventures Discussion Series, Part 3, on Social Edge
March 4-5, 2008 Foundations on the Hill, Council on Foundations and Regional Associations of Grantmakers, Washington, D.C.
March 10-12 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations 2008 National Conference and 10th Anniversary Celebration, San Francisco.
May 4-7 Council on Foundations Philanthropy Summit 2008, National Harbor, Maryland.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Utah has become the first U.S. state to measure its Ecological Footprint. A report titled "Utah Vital Signs 2007: The Ecological Footprint of Utah" shows that the state's footprint is greater than its biocapacity. Residents are currently using 11 percent more regenerative capacity than the state has available. The report was based on a nine-month study using National Footprint Accounts data and state statistics, and was prepared as part of the Utah Vital Signs project of the Utah Population and Environment Coalition, a Global Footprint Network partner and education organization in Salt Lake City. Sandra McIntyre, project director, said, "We hope that our state Ecological Footprint study can serve as a way to help citizens, legislators, and planners make better decisions about our future."
American foundations and corporations have donated more than $1 billion toward the recovery of the Gulf Coast since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita damaged the area, according to a Foundation Center report, "Giving in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes." About one-fourth of the 850 foundations and corporations surveyed gave $1 million or more, and about one in 20 gave $5 million or more. Corporate donations were primarily targeted at immediate needs, while foundation contributions were aimed at long-term recovery efforts.
MTV has launched its first online community: Think.MTV.com, a place where young people can become engaged and informed about issues that affect them, and use digital tools to effect positive change. The Think Community is inviting big names in pop culture, along with nonprofits and civic organizations, to join with youths who want to solve pressing social issues. Among those already using the site are the United Nations, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Malaria No More, City Year, PlayPumps and Games for Change, as well as Bono, Reggie Bush, Pete Wentz, Shakira, Nick Cannon, Rosario Dawson and more. MTV invites young people to sign up, build a profile and begin contributing.
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RESOURCES
Practical tips about how to create an effect nonprofit organization make Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, an essential handbook for managers in the social sector. Research for the book was supported, in part, by the Skoll Foundation with a field-building grant. The authors, Heather McLeod Grand and Leslie Crutchfield, give examples of adaptive and innovative organizations that are reforming social systems around the world. "This book can change the way the world works by changing how leaders think," says Jim Collins, author of Good to Great.
Another new book, Awakening Social Responsibility: A Call to Action Guidebook for Global Citizens, Corporate and Nonprofit Organizations, by Rossella Derickson and Krista Henley, explains how individuals and organizations can implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) through such activities as eco-initiatives, employee giving, volunteering and sustainable business practices.
Spitfire Strategies and the Communications Leadership Institute are offering a free Smart Chart 3.0 tool that helps nonprofits draft effective communications strategy plans. The new tool distills learning their recent Activation Point research that identifies the triggers that motivate people to take action in support of a cause. The tool includes a pull-out planning chart that groups can fill in as they go. Once they complete the exercise, they are armed with a blueprint for their communications campaign.
The Communication Initiative Network has launched a digital knowledge-sharing platform for its network of 70,000 people and organizations in more than 200 countries who have joined the CI Network. It includes more than 35,000 summaries of program action, strategic thinking, planning models, evaluations and research results and change theories covering a full range of development issues: children, conflict, democracy and governance, economic development, education, the environment, gender, health, natural resource management and more. The information can also be accessed by region and country.
The Gilbert Authors Network has a new Web site that aggregates all of the posts coming out of The Gilbert Center's new network of authors in a single feed. The site includes biographies of all of the authors and offers a rich compendium of news and opinions from experts in the nonprofit sector and beyond. You can also sign up for an RSS feed. It was created by Michael Gilbert, a nonprofit consultant who has been writing and editing Nonprofit Online News continuously since 1997. |
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