Transparency in Non-Profits

From Tactical Philanthropy:

A funders allegiance should be to impact, not individual grantees. If sharing information about a grantee will increase system wide impact (such as warning other funders to not give money to an inept nonprofit) then it should be shared even if it hurts the grantee. But if hurting a grantee might lower impact (such as if the info might scare other funders away from what is otherwise a high impact nonprofit) than the information may be rightly withheld.


http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2009/04/center-for-effective-philanthropy-knowledge-sharing-session

submodal - Google Code

Pretty easy way to do modal dialog boxes in javascript/HTML, fairly easy to configure and cross-browser compliant out of the box (or so it seems).  Pros and cons to loading an outside file to do the box, but if you really didn't like it you could change that part pretty easily.

http://code.google.com/p/submodal/

Equation to help understand inflation

Can't figure out if we'll have inflation or deflation? Guess using this equation from Mauldin: Money x Velocity = Price(infl/defl) x GDP

And don't forget in 1933 Roosevelt had the new deal. In 1937 tried to fix it and balance budget, drove back to recession. Think Obama can do better in his 4 years?

Thanks.

--David

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Please Consider the Planet Before Printing

Obama Signs Major Land Conservation Law | 44 | washingtonpost.com

The good thing about the financial crisis is that nobody's paying attention to this stuff, and it sneaks on through:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/30/obama_signs_major_land_conserv.html?wprss=44

Financial Safety Net of Nonprofit Organizations Is Fraying, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26charity.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

If you build it, they will come

Shai Agassi, former SAP exec, thinks if we build a whole bunch of electric car charging and/or battery swap stations, then the electric cars will show up.  Big bet, pretty cool, and probably a durable technology - maybe not the battery swapping stuff, but electricity isn't going away.  And the cool thing is that you're paying per mile.

Although I'm curious if that will affect driving too much.  If I actually start thinking about my per-mile charge, I might start to get really annoyed.  Easier to think about buying one tank of gas every week or so - even if it works out to the same thing.

From the Desk of David Pogue - Electric Cars for All! (No, Really This Time) - NYTimes.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/personaltech/19pogue-email.html?_r=1&8cir&emc=cira1

Solar Dish

Way better than normal solar panels, hopefully much cheaper and definitely easier to install... Friend at Sempra Energy said this is real;

MIT prototype solar dish passes first tests - MIT News Office

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/solar-dish-0618.html