Spending the week on the coast in Northern California at "The Sea Ranch" (poor me) working with the staff of On The Verge, as they work with Group 5. So not too much time to blog here this week. If I can, I will create a blog for the retreat and link it here.
Norton J. Kiritz, founder of the Grantsmanship Center, died last month In Los Angeles at 70. He was a major force, perhaps the major force, behind streamlining the grant writing process. More here in the LA Times.
Ask foster youth “aging out” of the system what three things do they need. They will say: affordable housing, a job, and transportation. Now a welfare agency in NC wants to take one of those three away form a foster youth. More here.
Here is a list of tips to improve your writng skills without too much, effort. Check it out.
Connections Between Faith Communities and Their Non-profits, a pilot research project looking at the “dynamic relationship between various faith communities and the non-profit organizations they create” was recently released. The researchers focused on a number of factors in this relationship including “the important role of culture in social capital connections between faith communities and the non-profits they create”. Interesting reading with lots of important policy implications.
Here is the link.
At first blush this article from the NYT looks good. Even the name is enticing, New Schools Venture Fund. And it has been around a while – six years. And it has really smart people behind it like John Doerr, one of the movers and shakers (literally) in the hi-tech world. So, what’s the problem? My concern long-term is about scalability. Just like “Unified School District” sounds good, at a certain point size does matter, as in when school systems get too large, the kids get lost.
Maybe they have cracked the code, but venture capitalists have a mindset of “grow or die” that just might get in the way.
Again, hope I am wrong here.
Just how powerful is local TV news in shaping how we see the world? Well consider this: over 60% of the American public indicates that local TV news is their SOLE source of news. Since 1990 the University of Delaware’s Local TV Media Project has been developing a database of local television stories from 61 stations in 20 markets. So far they have over 10,600 stories catalogued. This is quite a treasure trove as researchers study how local television is a factor in shaping public policy. The project site is here.
Learning to fold fitted sheets may be one of the most daunting tasks of modern living. Fortunately, though, Target has come to the rescue. (And you thought we were just in the 'ThinkFeel" part of the blogosphere!)
... with an intelligently designed thinker.
Intelligent conversions about ID may be rare these days. That doesn’t mean that there are no intelligent conversations about God. Here is a conversation from the archives of CrossCurrents with David Tracy, from the University of Chicago, arguably one of the most important thinkers of this century. Read on.
In a war on terrorism one would think that there is a clear and consistent way that government (administration) officials think about and use the word “terrorist”. One would be wrong. Consider this case concerning a man accused of masterminding the bombing of a civilian aircraft several years back. The story got a lot of play a few months ago, but it now has moved well off the front pages.
From the power of language department…the media’s description of what occurred to the Texas lawyer shot accidentally by VP Chaney has been peppered with pepper. What exactly does it mean to be peppered with birdshot? Here is an Emergency Room MD’s description of this particular seasoning. Pass the pepper please.
And here is another view of the Veep's salt and pepper controversy from the NYT.
Maybe it is because of the way some of our "officials" behave. For many people who live outside the US the "face" of this nation becomes the face of the immigration or customs official at the airport, or the ports of entry. Without clear guidelines about how to approach their work many of these officials - rather than thinking for themselves - seem not to be thinking at all. Consider this...
We can also change the style to a different one, if we want to,,, click here.
So, what books and articles have you been reading that we can include in these entries?
Links to cool sites?
It all goes here... here's a cool link...
and now that I have it figured out, I can get your stuff up and runing in no time as well.
Hi John,
After several false starts we are up and running with the blog site.
I will add several entries this week to see how things progress, but I think the technology is finally under control.
At some point down the line it would be good to have the web person who worked on the TWI site help me with the html to get the graphic with the doors up as well.