Posts Tagged ‘TED’
Reinventing Charity
Sunday, April 18th, 2010Reinventing Charity is the third in a trilogy of TED Talks that we are linking to from the JGooders blog. In this twelve-minute talk from 2007 uploaded only a few months ago, business and government consultant and author Katherine Fulton discusses the future of philanthropy. She eloquently explains the evolution of a new model for philanthropy in the digital age, and how it differs substantially from the traditional foundation — which was radical when it was invented a century ago but is showing its age as our culture changes at an exponential rate in the twenty-first century. Fulton introduces a slew of new terms that give us a framework for understanding and analyzing what JGooders and others around the world have been doing in the last few years, and that many more will inevitably adopt in the years to come.
More Money & He Knows What To Do With It
Thursday, April 8th, 2010After last week’s Passover-themed blog link to a “TED Talk” video about slavery and freedom, I started digging deeper into the TED.com archives. I thought that perhaps some other intellectual heavyweight or prodigious activist had spoken from that podium about philanthropy, how private citizens like ourselves can change the world by redistributing our wealth. A simple string search turned up a talk by the world’s second richest man, William Gates III, on how he feels that his donor dollars would best be spent. With a net worth of fifty-three billion dollars and climbing, I’d sure like to know who’s cashing in his charity cheques!
How To Combat Modern Slavery
Sunday, April 4th, 2010In the last blog entry, in the spirit of Passover, I entreated us all to think long and hard about the full extent of the slave trade in the world today, and how we might increase freedom for all living beings, at home and abroad. After I hit the “publish button”, I took my own advice to heart and did some additional research on the issue, and came upon some excellent resources. So if I inspired you to delve deeper into the topic of bondage and abolition, I highly recommend the following TED Talk, How To Combat Modern Slavery.

