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Thursday Jan 25, 2007
Bullsh*t bingo anyone?
As in many fields of work, here in the non-profit world we're no strangers to buzz words. We've all tried picking the low lying fruit and thinking outside the box, but this morning I came across a term that almost made me choke on my muesli - "filmanthropy".
According to OnPhilanthropy this gem came from business leader and philanthropist Ted Leonsis. No one could disagree that films and documentaries have the power to elicit social change, but I think Susan Herr is making a huge generalisation when she says "Nonprofits and academia couldn't achieve in decades what was wrought in one year by a film from one Jeff Skoll whose for-profit film company, Participant Productions, was established to create "impassioned entertainment."The film she's referring to is "An Inconvenient Truth", but is she seriously suggesting that the film alone has done more for the climate change movement than decades of academic research and lobbying by non-profits all around the world? That's a seriously bold claim.
In the same article I notice that Kevin Bacon has also launched a new fundraising site - sixdegrees.org. The article says the site is "MySpace for the retail philanthropy crowd" but the amount raised on the site is less than $70,000 as "the fury of the Internet effect has yet to be released". I hope the site is a great success and I'm sure Kevin has great plans to promote it – hopefully beyond relying on the "fury of the Internet effect". Posted by Sam Thomas ( 9:53 AM ) Link to this post Comments[1]
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