I am now back on the East Coast after finishing up what turned out to be a great internship with the Hewlett Foundation‘s Performing Arts Program. In addition to developing a strategic plan for a cultural asset map of the Bay Area, I helped out with some more traditional program officer work and a Year-in-ReviewRead More
Archives for August 2008
Asset management on $5 a day
I’ve been thinking lately about Sudhir Venkatesh’s experiment in extreme poverty immersion and the lessons it holds for grantmakers. As I mentioned in that post, I’ve known only a tight-budget existence in my personal life thus far, which has been reinforced by four years working for a nonprofit with annual expenses in the $1.5 millionRead More
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
This is amazing. Freakonomics guest blogger Sudhir Venkatesh has been working for the past few months with Michael, a trust-fund baby with $78 million to donate over the next few years. After paying 20 grand to a few consultants to help him direct his funds and getting a lot of hogwash about “embracing the innerRead More
Splashing Around the Pool
A roundup of tasty tidbits for your weekend: Adam Forest Huttler is really smart. The founder of Fractured Atlas delivers a very lengthy, but entirely worth reading analysis of what MBAs can bring to the nonprofit sector, and arts organizations in particular. I am by no means a card-carrying member of the “business skills canRead More
Knowledge, part II
I promised a month ago that I would share more cool links as I found them from my work-related research on cultural studies and online tools. Here’s a selection for you: HealthyCity. What Mapping Westchester County did for the tony suburbs of New York, HealthyCity does for Los Angeles. Click on “Advanced Mapping” to seeRead More